I've seen projects go quite sour because they depended on sarge going stable according to the debian schedule and so-called plans.
My scepticism is warranted and I predict (fingers to temples, makes buzzing sound) that we woody will still be stable this time next year.
And when sarge *finally* goes stable, Gnome 4.something will be out but *not* in sarge and people who want an up-to-date desktop will *still* have to go with unstable or testing.
Ok trying to be dangerously imaginative here but since uranium is pretty dense and IIRC from reading about the effect of DU ammunition, burns unpleasently if you get it started, I'd have thought it would be a really nasty material to use as the casing on a bomb... give it a shaped charge like a claymore or something?
non-depleted uranium shrapnel? Thats got to hurt.
Let it off somewhere to hit a hardened target, who knows, maybe the uranium shrapnel will penetrate better?
"I figure, these, or old oil tankers lashed together and anchored to the sea floor would make for a great non-US country"
Throw in an aircraft carrier... Have you read 'Snowcrash'?
Actually, I think that one of those old Soviet Typhoon class subs would make a great 'free country'. Just rip out all the missile silos (well ok, *most* of the missile silos) and replace with hydroponics for food and, er, other things. Just call me Hagbard.
"Yes, it would hurt the industry, but the US is not the only place that games get sold."
Doesn't really work any more.
For example, Fallout was released in a special European edition without children, and 'Temple of elemental evil' was released with the children removed, apparently at the last minute, so that they could sell the game in Europe.
I don't think that you can use such a broad brush.
For example, I hate monotheism (well, strictly speaking not even monotheism, just the judaeo-christian-islamic cults that *call* themselves religions but which are actually geopolitical movements of ancient times which have survived into the modern world (but thats another story)), but not religion as such.
I'm a pansapienist and not a complete and total asshole. Just a bit of one.
Absolutely; it was the last two episodes that sucked.
'objects in space' I mean whats with that idiot bounty hunter??? Does he have a hearing problem or something? (When Reynolds asks him 'are you alliance?' he seems to think that he said 'are you a lion').
And 'message' (IIRC the name of the episode) I just wish Jayne had killed that idiot of a dead guy straight away; it would have saved us a wasted episode.
Firefly was great until the last 2 episodes IMO; its as if they knew they were going to be cancelled and just gave up.
"There's no real point to cracking it if you have a legal version."
Ok so maybe someone with a legal version could tell me; can you play the game with a non-administrator account on windows XP or 2000?
If you can't then there *is* a point to cracking it.
If you can then Valve are shit hot because many games today *require* admin privilege; for example, the copy protection may require the user to start a service.
Yeah but I can use a very similar argument against people who want to write, for example, a windowing operating system or a word processor (for example) in assembly language... I actually know such people.
Its really just a matter of picking the right tool for the job.
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Exactly.
I've seen projects go quite sour because they depended on sarge going stable according to the debian schedule and so-called plans.
My scepticism is warranted and I predict (fingers to temples, makes buzzing sound) that we woody will still be stable this time next year.
And when sarge *finally* goes stable, Gnome 4.something will be out but *not* in sarge and people who want an up-to-date desktop will *still* have to go with unstable or testing.
"Opinions are like assholes: Everyone has one, and no one wants to look at the other guy's."
So... a philosopher would kinda be like... a proctologist?
"Real Soon Now"
Sorry, but announcements from Debian that sarge will go stable 'real soon now' usually seem to mean 'next year some time'.
You mean so that they can, YET AGAIN, delay the release of sarge?
I mean, COME ON debian, how many times have they said that its going to be released 'Real Soon Now'... I've been hearing that for over a year.
Sounds to me as if they are using ocaml to compile 'something' to C.
I don't think that counts as writing it in C any more than compiling a C program to binary means that I *wrote* the machine code.
"Blogs aren't journalism. They aren't about reporting the news, they're about commenting on it."
Absolutely.
Blogs will be the future of journalism when the only people who read the news are bloggers.
Ok trying to be dangerously imaginative here but since uranium is pretty dense and IIRC from reading about the effect of DU ammunition, burns unpleasently if you get it started, I'd have thought it would be a really nasty material to use as the casing on a bomb... give it a shaped charge like a claymore or something?
non-depleted uranium shrapnel? Thats got to hurt.
Let it off somewhere to hit a hardened target, who knows, maybe the uranium shrapnel will penetrate better?
"I figure, these, or old oil tankers lashed together and anchored to the sea floor would make for a great non-US country"
Throw in an aircraft carrier... Have you read 'Snowcrash'?
Actually, I think that one of those old Soviet Typhoon class subs would make a great 'free country'. Just rip out all the missile silos (well ok, *most* of the missile silos) and replace with hydroponics for food and, er, other things. Just call me Hagbard.
Could probably pick one up cheap these days...
Of course there may arise the potential of travel risks for this guy.
For example, how will this affect is ability to travel freely to and (perhaps more importantly) from the USA?
*cough*DMCA*cough*
"why not build solar stations in orbit (a la SimCity)"
;)
Let me guess, you play with disasters turned off, right?
You think thats harsh?
;)
Just wait till wanking becomes illegal in the USA...
and the only men who arn't in prison are suffering prostate cancer
"Yes, it would hurt the industry, but the US is not the only place that games get sold."
Doesn't really work any more.
For example, Fallout was released in a special European edition without children, and 'Temple of elemental evil' was released with the children removed, apparently at the last minute, so that they could sell the game in Europe.
and all women... :-P
"What next? Is Congress going to hold hearings on hentai next?"
Right... I can't wait to hear the debate over whether or not the depiction of tentacle sex is bad for sailorsuit-clad schoolgirls.
Perhaps they will give a demonstration?
As long as they don't get Ms Rice to dress up in a cosplay demonstration of hentai filth...
I don't think that you can use such a broad brush.
For example, I hate monotheism (well, strictly speaking not even monotheism, just the judaeo-christian-islamic cults that *call* themselves religions but which are actually geopolitical movements of ancient times which have survived into the modern world (but thats another story)), but not religion as such.
I'm a pansapienist and not a complete and total asshole. Just a bit of one.
Actually, I'd like to know where the hell the yanks come up with these words... 'czar' to describe a government official? Bizarre.
Or 'pooh-poohed' thats another good yank-ism.
Or 'nixed'.
I could think of about a million more if it wasn't so early in the morning, so lets stick with this 'czar' word.
Why did Americans start using that Russian word for royalty to describe government officials?
Absolutely; it was the last two episodes that sucked.
'objects in space' I mean whats with that idiot bounty hunter??? Does he have a hearing problem or something? (When Reynolds asks him 'are you alliance?' he seems to think that he said 'are you a lion').
And 'message' (IIRC the name of the episode) I just wish Jayne had killed that idiot of a dead guy straight away; it would have saved us a wasted episode.
Firefly was great until the last 2 episodes IMO; its as if they knew they were going to be cancelled and just gave up.
"There is no way this game could be used to train for assassination unless you're planning something in Dealy Plaza."
Actually, I was planning on using it to practice assassinating the Dealy Lama...
"especially since the US military is moving to lighter fast reaction forces that can be airlifted quickly to combat zones"
Yeah I didn't think that the special 'high mobility' fuel tankers that have to follow gas-guzzling hummers around could be air lifted very easily...
"There's no real point to cracking it if you have a legal version."
Ok so maybe someone with a legal version could tell me; can you play the game with a non-administrator account on windows XP or 2000?
If you can't then there *is* a point to cracking it.
If you can then Valve are shit hot because many games today *require* admin privilege; for example, the copy protection may require the user to start a service.
"My money is on the roaches, since they have been around for several hundred million years."
Absolutely. In the context of evolution, the technologically advanced human race is a mere dot.com
Yeah but I can use a very similar argument against people who want to write, for example, a windowing operating system or a word processor (for example) in assembly language... I actually know such people.
Its really just a matter of picking the right tool for the job.
Absolutely. *I* didn't say it was insightful.
I am often amazed at the posts I make that get modded 'insightful' when I was expecting 'funny' or even 'troll'.
Something I read somewhere;
'Some people are of the mistaken impression that being secure is synonymous with being a big pain in the ass'
Its so true...
One of the nice things I liked about civ was (is) the way that the endgame really *can* be for everyone. Global warming sent shivers down my spine.
Always make sure that you have large, productive cities somewhere inland.