I'm aware of offline mode, I use it regularly, ever since my adsl connection died for a couple of days and I didn't have my password saved. I'm sure you're also aware that you have to go online first before you can go offline. That was my point. I can't imagine how much fun it must be to decrypt the game with dialup.
- if valve goes out of business, I lose the ability to play the game I paid for
No, they would most likely release a patch to remove Steam.
I haven't checked the EULA lately, but I'd be surprised if there's a guarantee of that fact. I should not be reliant upon the goodwill of a company after a sale to be able to play my retail game. 'Doctrine of first sale' and all that.
- having to have an internet connection to play the single player game, and spending several hours waiting for it to decrypt when I bought it release day - how they first required both steam activation AND a dvd check for the store-bought version - that I can't resell my copy of HL2 when I get bored with it - that when steam goes belly-up, I can't play (had that problem at a LAN party, massive counter-strike problems for lots of people as the net connection couldn't handle steam logins for 200 ppl) - if valve goes out of business, I lose the ability to play the game I paid for - mandatory patches tying up my internet connection unexpectedly, a real problem for dialup users - piracy protection that does nothing to stop hacked copies showing up on torrent sites, but makes me jump through hoops -randomly losing my installed game files, forcing me to spend hours downloading and reinstalling the game via steam (happened to me twice now)
I'm sorry, but these far outweigh any good points of steam. I for one won't be purchasing any new games from valve that require it. I'm a customer, not a damn lab rat. Make steam optional so you can use it for the handy features, such as easy patch download, and purchase games through it if you wish. But don't sell something in a box in a retail store, then turn round and treat it like a rental.
The main reason he wanted to do it through paypal was to get shipping addresses, to send them free stuff for donating. Similiar principle to buying CD's via CDBaby, with the money going to the red cross.
The difference is, SA's servers are offline in NO, so he couldn't do it with his own credit card facilities, but had to use paypal. Who promptly stole all the money, not just the 3.25% processing fee.
I'm no fan of SA btw, or it's fans, but I can at least give props to the attempt to drum up donations with free stuff - and add this story to my list of why I will never use paypal.
Hmm. Let's take your bluff. I'll put my music on magnatune, and give the copies away for free *myself*. Yet artists also sell higher-quality versions of their music on magnatune, and presumably make a profit. After all, a number of artists have put 2nd albums on there, and the site is growing.
I don't mind people posting complaints or problems with linux, but when you've seen the 5th repost of the exact same complaint by an AC, and it's modded up every time, it starts to get a little trollish.
Can't say I've noticed kernel problems of late, and I tend to use the ck branch. Been having freezes, but that was heat-related in one case, and dodgy nvidia drivers in the other.
Do you have to post this in EVERY goddamn thread about linux? Enough already.
Use SuSE or Mandriva. No compilation necessary, pretty user-frontends for config, and a big thick paper manual in the box in SuSE's case. If you don't want to have to make any choices, try ubuntu.
This system can be gamed. Presumably the 'most popular' songs would be listed as such. To get to the top of the list, the record labels just buy lots of their own single that they want to market.
The price goes up, so more profit to them. The sales don't go down significantly, as evidence shows people will buy the 'latest and greatest top number 1' because it must be good, or they must have that particular song. It doesn't even cost the record agencies anything, as the tiny bit of revenue from the song they don't get, they just charge to the artist as marketing expenses!
Because a) that would slow the rate of infection, and it's lifetime (I still see the odd laptop infected with blaster)
b) an infected machine they can pull credit card numbers off of (which they did in this case) or send spam with, is much more valuable to writers these days than just killing it.
Unless you plan to start offering commercial consulting services under your LUG's brand, your use would almost certainly fall under fair use rights (as a form of journalism), and you'd have no need to pay the fee. The most you'd have to do is use the R mark and note the trademark on the bottom of your homepage.
But thanks to the fscking Brits who dumped their crappy system on us hapless Americans, I can only really think in things like foot-pounds and pounds-per-inch spring rates, and end up having to use abominations such as slugs for mass.
Aha, it was all part of our dastardly plan to destroy your economy when we switched to metric, leaving you with an outdated and illogical system! Bwahahaha. Shame it didn't work, but you seem to have found your own method with republican presidents;)
Sorry - not true. Windows Genuine Advantage has nothing to do with security patches. All users will get security patches, without going through any checks
That used to be the case. Now with the latest version of Windows Update, you must pass genuine advantage in order to download patches. I know this as I've one machine that fails to get past the check on windows update despite the valid licence number on it. I believe autoupdate is still working, but for how long?
In other words, it's difficult to make the case that broadband Internet is a necessary part of the nation's infrastructure, since every aspect of the Internet that's in the public interest can be handled quite well with dialup.
It's a fair point, but I suspect you've not used dialup for a while.
Webpages are increasingly designed for broadband, with heaps of flash adverts, DHTML menus etc. They're painfully slow with dialup.
Windows and software patches, updated drivers etc are huge these days, ranging from 20MB to 250MB. Downloading these on dialup is not really practical any more.
Email attachments are the other big files. The amount of times I've seen documents or photos cripple a dialup download. Even spam can be very frustrating with slow connection speeds.
Dialup is fast becoming completely obsolete for the modern internet.
To be fair, it depends on where you draw the line as to whether you count someone as left handed - figures vary from 5% to 30%, as there's some variation across countries too. It also varies across tasks, as as you've found, lefties often learn to manage in the right-handed world and mostly adapt.
I find I'm pretty stuck in situations where I have to use my right hand for precision or fine control. I can handle a pair of right handed scissors, or a right-handed mouse for general use, but FPS'ing I just need that better motor control on my left, despite my attempts to manage otherwise.
As a result, I always have to go for 'universal' mice like the razer diamondback, which is a nice gaming mouse frankly. It'd just be nice to have shaped left-handed mice. Imagine if you'd never had to switch over to your right hand. You may well be better with your right now, but your left would probably be stronger given equal practise.
And guess what, it's shaped for right handers only. You'd think that it'd be possible to invert the casing, and produce a mirrored device for the 15-20% or so of the target market who can't use a right-handed gaming mouse. (I can handle it for general use, but I need my primary hand for precision work)
Still, looks like I'll be buying the new razer copperhead when it comes out shortly, similar features but suitable for lefties.
It's a fair question. The vast majority of climate scientists, especially the reputable ones, think the evidence is strong that human action is largely responsible for the current climate change. I'm prepared to accept their judgement on that.
Yes, the earth has gone through some pretty extreme climate changes in the past few million years. Hell, it's beeen through a few in the last 100,000.
Life will survive. The question is whether us, and especially our lifestyles will. Living in the UK, my children and my grandchildren (if I ever have any) could have things much tougher than me.
With the rise in temperature, a lot of freshwater from the icecaps and russian rivers is diluting the north end of the gulf stream. The gulf stream relies on a return trip of cold, dense salty water back to the tropics. If that's reduced or stopped because of too much lo With the rise in temperature, a lot of freshwater from the icecaps and russian rivers is diluting the north end of the gulf stream. The gulf stream relies on a return trip of cold, dense salty water back to the tropics. If that's reduced or stopped because of too much low density fresh water, then that also stops the flow of warm water up from the tropics. With the gulf stream shut down or severely reduced, the climate in the UK would be more like alaska or scandinavia.w density fresh water, then that also stops the flow of warm water up from the tropics. With the gulf stream shut down or severely reduced, the climate in the UK would be more like alaska or scandinavia. That would have massive impacts on transport, agriculture, housing and many other things. Survivable? Of course. Devastating to the economy? Quite likely. And it's happened in the past.
That's one possible outcome. There are others. WE don't know exactly what the results of climate change, all we know is that they would be significant. And we're causing it.
Strikes me more as a remote X session and samba server rolled into a package you take with you, rather than access over the host's network.
Similar to apps and data on usb key, but with persistance and linux apps rather than windows versions. Will be a lot more useful once they release a hard-drive version.
I could have used this when I was a network engineer for 3M, I did a lot of roaming between sites fixing servers and the like, and a unix session without having to mess about with installing a local X server or vnc would have been useful.
Generally you don't need to update your profile until it gets pretty old (like a 1.2 or 1.4 version) as portage handles the dependencies and upgrades once the system is installed. If you're on a 2004 or 2005 profile, you're fine as you are, even the 1.4 profiles were only warned about to push forward adaption of stacked profiles.
However, there is a page on changing your profile here
It'll likely be updated to include the 2005.1 profile in the next couple of days.
These guys use the Halo engine to cut together their own comedy show, a technique called machinima. It's similar in principle to using modelling clay and a video camera to produce animation comedy. You download and watch videos of this from their website. You can also buy DVDs of past series. It's not like you're actually playing Halo with them!
If you like their style of humour, you'll find it pretty damn funny.
"I'd like to thank my parents, Mother Theresa and God". The comma really would add clarity there
I had to read that four times before I saw the alternative (and incorrect) interpretation.
I think it is mainly just what you're used to. I had it drummed into me at school that we should never use a comma at the end of a list, only an 'and'. I'm british btw.
Stylistically, I also pause slightly for a breath at commas and the final 'and', which paces my reading of the sentence. Incidentally, I use the same technique for where to place commas, which hopefully helps me break up sentences into managable chunks.
I was thinking of exporting military aircraft to brutal dictatorships, anti-personnel landmines, large contingents of weapons to people fighting a civil war, things of that nature.
As you say, the 2nd amendment - and it's ramifications - is a matter for americans, and as a non-american I don't really want to comment on that.
British and US companies export significant quantities of weapons, and are regulated so they can't export to certain countries because of the harm such exports would do. That's regulation I agree with, and isn't related to the 2nd amendment. Well, until we get a US world dictatorship;)
Well I don't believe government intervention is warranted in this case per se.
I was thinking more of significant physical harm, such as using government regulation to stop exports of nuclear weapons, heavy metal poisoning from runoff, extreme exploitation of the workforce etc, that's where government has a duty to step in and stop a company.
Linux, encryption, and routers, have lots of legitimate uses, and government regulation of those is unwarranted.
If the shareholders wanted to stop say redhat, from removing the taiwanese flag from their distro, that's their right, but government intervention isn't warranted in that case, IMHO.
I've thought about your position, and it seems attractive, but then I remembered a counter-example.
This is exactly the same argument the military equipment and weapons manufacturers use as to why they should be able to sell their guns to anyone with the money, and be able to sell any weapons, such as landmines, to anyone.
Similar arguments are used by companies using what is near slave labour (and in some cases, actual slave labour through contractors) - if they can buy goods for the cheapest possible price, wouldn't they be remiss to the shareholders to not take advantage of it?
We have a duty, through government, to prevent our national companies from doing significant harm as part of their business plan, and I think shareholders should also have the right, if not the duty, to put pressure on the company they own to also act in a more socially responsible way.
In the end of the day, the shareholders own the company. If a majority of them think not helping censor free speech in china is more important than making the most money possible, then all power to them.
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I'm aware of offline mode, I use it regularly, ever since my adsl connection died for a couple of days and I didn't have my password saved. I'm sure you're also aware that you have to go online first before you can go offline. That was my point. I can't imagine how much fun it must be to decrypt the game with dialup.
- if valve goes out of business, I lose the ability to play the game I paid for
No, they would most likely release a patch to remove Steam.
I haven't checked the EULA lately, but I'd be surprised if there's a guarantee of that fact. I should not be reliant upon the goodwill of a company after a sale to be able to play my retail game. 'Doctrine of first sale' and all that.
You mean disadvantages like these?
- having to have an internet connection to play the single player game, and spending several hours waiting for it to decrypt when I bought it release day
- how they first required both steam activation AND a dvd check for the store-bought version
- that I can't resell my copy of HL2 when I get bored with it
- that when steam goes belly-up, I can't play (had that problem at a LAN party, massive counter-strike problems for lots of people as the net connection couldn't handle steam logins for 200 ppl)
- if valve goes out of business, I lose the ability to play the game I paid for
- mandatory patches tying up my internet connection unexpectedly, a real problem for dialup users
- piracy protection that does nothing to stop hacked copies showing up on torrent sites, but makes me jump through hoops
-randomly losing my installed game files, forcing me to spend hours downloading and reinstalling the game via steam (happened to me twice now)
I'm sorry, but these far outweigh any good points of steam. I for one won't be purchasing any new games from valve that require it. I'm a customer, not a damn lab rat. Make steam optional so you can use it for the handy features, such as easy patch download, and purchase games through it if you wish. But don't sell something in a box in a retail store, then turn round and treat it like a rental.
The main reason he wanted to do it through paypal was to get shipping addresses, to send them free stuff for donating. Similiar principle to buying CD's via CDBaby, with the money going to the red cross.
The difference is, SA's servers are offline in NO, so he couldn't do it with his own credit card facilities, but had to use paypal. Who promptly stole all the money, not just the 3.25% processing fee.
I'm no fan of SA btw, or it's fans, but I can at least give props to the attempt to drum up donations with free stuff - and add this story to my list of why I will never use paypal.
magnatune allow you to download FLAC or WAV versions (in addition to lossy codecs) of music you purchase.
Hmm. Let's take your bluff. I'll put my music on magnatune, and give the copies away for free *myself*. Yet artists also sell higher-quality versions of their music on magnatune, and presumably make a profit. After all, a number of artists have put 2nd albums on there, and the site is growing.
Odd, that.
I don't mind people posting complaints or problems with linux, but when you've seen the 5th repost of the exact same complaint by an AC, and it's modded up every time, it starts to get a little trollish.
Can't say I've noticed kernel problems of late, and I tend to use the ck branch. Been having freezes, but that was heat-related in one case, and dodgy nvidia drivers in the other.
Do you have to post this in EVERY goddamn thread about linux? Enough already.
Use SuSE or Mandriva. No compilation necessary, pretty user-frontends for config, and a big thick paper manual in the box in SuSE's case. If you don't want to have to make any choices, try ubuntu.
This system can be gamed. Presumably the 'most popular' songs would be listed as such. To get to the top of the list, the record labels just buy lots of their own single that they want to market.
The price goes up, so more profit to them. The sales don't go down significantly, as evidence shows people will buy the 'latest and greatest top number 1' because it must be good, or they must have that particular song. It doesn't even cost the record agencies anything, as the tiny bit of revenue from the song they don't get, they just charge to the artist as marketing expenses!
Record companies - 1, artist - 0.1, consumer - 0
Because
a) that would slow the rate of infection, and it's lifetime (I still see the odd laptop infected with blaster)
b) an infected machine they can pull credit card numbers off of (which they did in this case) or send spam with, is much more valuable to writers these days than just killing it.
Unless you plan to start offering commercial consulting services under your LUG's brand, your use would almost certainly fall under fair use rights (as a form of journalism), and you'd have no need to pay the fee. The most you'd have to do is use the R mark and note the trademark on the bottom of your homepage.
But thanks to the fscking Brits who dumped their crappy system on us hapless Americans, I can only really think in things like foot-pounds and pounds-per-inch spring rates, and end up having to use abominations such as slugs for mass.
;)
Aha, it was all part of our dastardly plan to destroy your economy when we switched to metric, leaving you with an outdated and illogical system!
Bwahahaha. Shame it didn't work, but you seem to have found your own method with republican presidents
Sorry - not true. Windows Genuine Advantage has nothing to do with security patches. All users will get security patches, without going through any checks
That used to be the case. Now with the latest version of Windows Update, you must pass genuine advantage in order to download patches. I know this as I've one machine that fails to get past the check on windows update despite the valid licence number on it. I believe autoupdate is still working, but for how long?
In other words, it's difficult to make the case that broadband Internet is a necessary part of the nation's infrastructure, since every aspect of the Internet that's in the public interest can be handled quite well with dialup.
It's a fair point, but I suspect you've not used dialup for a while.
Webpages are increasingly designed for broadband, with heaps of flash adverts, DHTML menus etc. They're painfully slow with dialup.
Windows and software patches, updated drivers etc are huge these days, ranging from 20MB to 250MB. Downloading these on dialup is not really practical any more.
Email attachments are the other big files. The amount of times I've seen documents or photos cripple a dialup download. Even spam can be very frustrating with slow connection speeds.
Dialup is fast becoming completely obsolete for the modern internet.
To be fair, it depends on where you draw the line as to whether you count someone as left handed - figures vary from 5% to 30%, as there's some variation across countries too. It also varies across tasks, as as you've found, lefties often learn to manage in the right-handed world and mostly adapt.
I find I'm pretty stuck in situations where I have to use my right hand for precision or fine control. I can handle a pair of right handed scissors, or a right-handed mouse for general use, but FPS'ing I just need that better motor control on my left, despite my attempts to manage otherwise.
As a result, I always have to go for 'universal' mice like the razer diamondback, which is a nice gaming mouse frankly. It'd just be nice to have shaped left-handed mice. Imagine if you'd never had to switch over to your right hand. You may well be better with your right now, but your left would probably be stronger given equal practise.
Pictures of the g5 mouse
And guess what, it's shaped for right handers only. You'd think that it'd be possible to invert the casing, and produce a mirrored device for the 15-20% or so of the target market who can't use a right-handed gaming mouse. (I can handle it for general use, but I need my primary hand for precision work)
Still, looks like I'll be buying the new razer copperhead when it comes out shortly, similar features but suitable for lefties.
It's a fair question. The vast majority of climate scientists, especially the reputable ones, think the evidence is strong that human action is largely responsible for the current climate change. I'm prepared to accept their judgement on that.
Yes, the earth has gone through some pretty extreme climate changes in the past few million years. Hell, it's beeen through a few in the last 100,000.
Life will survive. The question is whether us, and especially our lifestyles will. Living in the UK, my children and my grandchildren (if I ever have any) could have things much tougher than me.
With the rise in temperature, a lot of freshwater from the icecaps and russian rivers is diluting the north end of the gulf stream. The gulf stream relies on a return trip of cold, dense salty water back to the tropics. If that's reduced or stopped because of too much lo
With the rise in temperature, a lot of freshwater from the icecaps and russian rivers is diluting the north end of the gulf stream. The gulf stream relies on a return trip of cold, dense salty water back to the tropics. If that's reduced or stopped because of too much low density fresh water, then that also stops the flow of warm water up from the tropics. With the gulf stream shut down or severely reduced, the climate in the UK would be more like alaska or scandinavia.w density fresh water, then that also stops the flow of warm water up from the tropics. With the gulf stream shut down or severely reduced, the climate in the UK would be more like alaska or scandinavia. That would have massive impacts on transport, agriculture, housing and many other things. Survivable? Of course. Devastating to the economy? Quite likely. And it's happened in the past.
That's one possible outcome. There are others. WE don't know exactly what the results of climate change, all we know is that they would be significant. And we're causing it.
Strikes me more as a remote X session and samba server rolled into a package you take with you, rather than access over the host's network.
Similar to apps and data on usb key, but with persistance and linux apps rather than windows versions. Will be a lot more useful once they release a hard-drive version.
I could have used this when I was a network engineer for 3M, I did a lot of roaming between sites fixing servers and the like, and a unix session without having to mess about with installing a local X server or vnc would have been useful.
Generally you don't need to update your profile until it gets pretty old (like a 1.2 or 1.4 version) as portage handles the dependencies and upgrades once the system is installed. If you're on a 2004 or 2005 profile, you're fine as you are, even the 1.4 profiles were only warned about to push forward adaption of stacked profiles.
However, there is a page on changing your profile here
It'll likely be updated to include the 2005.1 profile in the next couple of days.
I think you're missing the point of RvB.
These guys use the Halo engine to cut together their own comedy show, a technique called machinima. It's similar in principle to using modelling clay and a video camera to produce animation comedy. You download and watch videos of this from their website. You can also buy DVDs of past series. It's not like you're actually playing Halo with them!
If you like their style of humour, you'll find it pretty damn funny.
Try it out, see what you think.
"I'd like to thank my parents, Mother Theresa and God". The comma really would add clarity there
I had to read that four times before I saw the alternative (and incorrect) interpretation.
I think it is mainly just what you're used to. I had it drummed into me at school that we should never use a comma at the end of a list, only an 'and'. I'm british btw.
Stylistically, I also pause slightly for a breath at commas and the final 'and', which paces my reading of the sentence. Incidentally, I use the same technique for where to place commas, which hopefully helps me break up sentences into managable chunks.
I was thinking of exporting military aircraft to brutal dictatorships, anti-personnel landmines, large contingents of weapons to people fighting a civil war, things of that nature.
;)
As you say, the 2nd amendment - and it's ramifications - is a matter for americans, and as a non-american I don't really want to comment on that.
British and US companies export significant quantities of weapons, and are regulated so they can't export to certain countries because of the harm such exports would do. That's regulation I agree with, and isn't related to the 2nd amendment. Well, until we get a US world dictatorship
Well I don't believe government intervention is warranted in this case per se.
I was thinking more of significant physical harm, such as using government regulation to stop exports of nuclear weapons, heavy metal poisoning from runoff, extreme exploitation of the workforce etc, that's where government has a duty to step in and stop a company.
Linux, encryption, and routers, have lots of legitimate uses, and government regulation of those is unwarranted.
If the shareholders wanted to stop say redhat, from removing the taiwanese flag from their distro, that's their right, but government intervention isn't warranted in that case, IMHO.
Hope that clarifies my position slightly.
I've thought about your position, and it seems attractive, but then I remembered a counter-example.
This is exactly the same argument the military equipment and weapons manufacturers use as to why they should be able to sell their guns to anyone with the money, and be able to sell any weapons, such as landmines, to anyone.
Similar arguments are used by companies using what is near slave labour (and in some cases, actual slave labour through contractors) - if they can buy goods for the cheapest possible price, wouldn't they be remiss to the shareholders
to not take advantage of it?
We have a duty, through government, to prevent our national companies from doing significant harm as part of their business plan, and I think shareholders should also have the right, if not the duty, to put pressure on the company they own to also act in a more socially responsible way.
In the end of the day, the shareholders own the company. If a majority of them think not helping censor free speech in china is more important than making the most money possible, then all power to them.
Wouldn't the pony eat the $100 bills growing on the tree?
Or we talking about some big-ass money tree that it can't reach?
Enquiring minds want to know.