I wonder how long it would have taken me to download over Steam on my 26k dialup.
If you want to play hl2 online in two years all you need to do is double click the game. You deleted the game ? NO PROBLEM. Steam downloads it for you. You are not up to date ? NO PROBLEM. steam updates you. You don't have the map / mod / whatever ? NO PROBLEM.
Oops! Valve went out of business and now the validation servers are gone. BIG PROBLEM! Now the only way to play even single player is to download an illegal crack.
The RIAA and MPAA should take a lesson. Valve has done a pretty incredible thing.
They reinvented Divx for games. I can still play System Shock 2, despite the fact that Looking Glass Studios shut down years ago. Prove to me that I can legally play HL2 five years from now.
So if Jeff Tweedy thinks it's great to steal his music, maybe he should ask Mary who works in the Promotions department at Nonesuch records, or Barry who works in IT, or Richard who sweeps the floors, or Jamie in packaging, or the countless other stakeholders in Wilco's records.
Most of those people were paid long before the album was released. Also A Ghost Was Born sold 81,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number 8 on the Billboard charts. Furthermore, Nonesuch Records didn't stop Wilco from streaming it off of their website, so they apparently are less concerned about people "stealing" Jeff Tweedy's music than you are.
Nah, football is played by flicking a piece of paper folded into a small triangle between another person's index fingers. I hear that's also how sex is made.
The bad part is that I think very large notebooks don't fit very well. I have an IBM T40 which is thin and not particularly small, but if you have a larger laptop (15" display or larger) then I don't know if it will fit.
I'd like to see you send email WITHOUT A NETWORK CONNECTION!
I can send an email WITHOUT A NETWORK CONNECTION! Granted, it won't actually leave my computer until the next time it connects, but I can fire up mutt, compose an email (or read one), and tell mutt to send it, at which postfix queues it until the next time I'm on the internet. Kinda hard to do that with webmail.
I've never had my phone number sold to telemarketers, but I have had my mailing address sold. It really pissed me off, because I'd done a fair amount of work to get my name taken off of lists and one greedy, jackass pizza joint ruined it. Their pizza wasn't that great, either.
It turns out it's a permissions problem. If you check ${FIREFOX_HOME}/install.log, you see it replaces components/nsHelperAppDlg.js and installs defaults/pref/bug259708.js. In my case, they both were readable only by root. I just did a "chmod +r" on those files and now it works fine.
I just installed the fix as root, closed Firefox, reopened Firefox as root to verify that the fix was applied, then closed it and reran as a regular user. The regular user account doesn't know that the fix was applied (the red button is there and when I click on it, it says it needs to download the fix). Either there's some kind of permissions problem, or the update information goes into root's profile, and not system-wide.
The default system menu that ships with Fedora Core 2 is a more ideal way to set up a menu, where the name of each program explains WHAT IT DOES, rather than trying to shoehorn some cute name into something that starts with K (or G for you Gnome fans). For example:
Instead of saying GAIM it says "Internet Messenger"
That's exactly what KDE's menu does. My multimedia menu is: CD & DVD Burning (K3b) Media Player (Kaboodle) Music Player (JuK) Sound Mixer (KMix)
There's no metal strip in $20 bills, nor was it because of the ink (or RFIDs). Here's what I want you to do: Take some plain printer paper. Cut it into about 50 $20-bill-sized pieces. Put that pile in the microwave. Turn the microwave on. Don't go anywhere, because you'll want to turn it back off very quickly. The result you'll see is remarkably similar to what the RFID guy got. Huh.
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Buying over steam had many advantages
I wonder how long it would have taken me to download over Steam on my 26k dialup.
If you want to play hl2 online in two years all you need to do is double click the game. You deleted the game ? NO PROBLEM. Steam downloads it for you. You are not up to date ? NO PROBLEM. steam updates you. You don't have the map / mod / whatever ? NO PROBLEM.
Oops! Valve went out of business and now the validation servers are gone. BIG PROBLEM! Now the only way to play even single player is to download an illegal crack.
The RIAA and MPAA should take a lesson. Valve has done a pretty incredible thing.
They reinvented Divx for games. I can still play System Shock 2, despite the fact that Looking Glass Studios shut down years ago. Prove to me that I can legally play HL2 five years from now.
So if Jeff Tweedy thinks it's great to steal his music, maybe he should ask Mary who works in the Promotions department at Nonesuch records, or Barry who works in IT, or Richard who sweeps the floors, or Jamie in packaging, or the countless other stakeholders in Wilco's records.
Most of those people were paid long before the album was released. Also A Ghost Was Born sold 81,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number 8 on the Billboard charts. Furthermore, Nonesuch Records didn't stop Wilco from streaming it off of their website, so they apparently are less concerned about people "stealing" Jeff Tweedy's music than you are.
WTF are you talking about? Wilco makes money the same way Metallica does. Their last CD debuted at number 8 on the Billboard charts.
Nah, football is played by flicking a piece of paper folded into a small triangle between another person's index fingers. I hear that's also how sex is made.
Not mine. I burn hydrogen to get my water. No one's messing with my precious bodily fluids.
the nuclear arms race of the 70's-80's ended up with what?
It ended up with arms that are under the "control" of shaky, desperate, poor former Soviet Republics.
There's always time for Grim Fandango.
The bad part is that I think very large notebooks don't fit very well. I have an IBM T40 which is thin and not particularly small, but if you have a larger laptop (15" display or larger) then I don't know if it will fit.
My 15" Vaio fits in my Rafter just fine.
How does one quantify urgency
Fraction of bladder. 0 = bladder empty, no urgency. 1 = bladder full. Hoo boy, that's urgent.
I don't think his keyboard's really on fire.
Who actually uses the copier anymore? For that matter the FAX machine?
People who still live on planet Earth.
I'd like to see you send email WITHOUT A NETWORK CONNECTION!
I can send an email WITHOUT A NETWORK CONNECTION! Granted, it won't actually leave my computer until the next time it connects, but I can fire up mutt, compose an email (or read one), and tell mutt to send it, at which postfix queues it until the next time I'm on the internet. Kinda hard to do that with webmail.
The military did experiment with saucer-shaped aircraft back in the 40s and 50s.
I've never had my phone number sold to telemarketers, but I have had my mailing address sold. It really pissed me off, because I'd done a fair amount of work to get my name taken off of lists and one greedy, jackass pizza joint ruined it. Their pizza wasn't that great, either.
Now they are mostly in their late twens wondering what to do with their existence for the rest of their time
Dude! Two chicks at the same time!
I wouldn't consider myself qualified to work for Google and yet their little puzzle was so trivial that I couldn't actually be bothered to solve it.
I tried that on a test once. They didn't buy it then, either.
It turns out it's a permissions problem. If you check ${FIREFOX_HOME}/install.log, you see it replaces components/nsHelperAppDlg.js and installs defaults/pref/bug259708.js. In my case, they both were readable only by root. I just did a "chmod +r" on those files and now it works fine.
I just installed the fix as root, closed Firefox, reopened Firefox as root to verify that the fix was applied, then closed it and reran as a regular user. The regular user account doesn't know that the fix was applied (the red button is there and when I click on it, it says it needs to download the fix). Either there's some kind of permissions problem, or the update information goes into root's profile, and not system-wide.
In TV land the commercial is DATA. My TV is not changed afterwards.
Really? That Dell dude made my TV smell like pot.
Depending on the mood, it's either, "Give me the love, baby!" or, "Stifling black hole sucking the joy out of life, how may I help you?"
The default system menu that ships with Fedora Core 2 is a more ideal way to set up a menu, where the name of each program explains WHAT IT DOES, rather than trying to shoehorn some cute name into something that starts with K (or G for you Gnome fans). For example:
Instead of saying GAIM it says "Internet Messenger"
That's exactly what KDE's menu does. My multimedia menu is:
CD & DVD Burning (K3b)
Media Player (Kaboodle)
Music Player (JuK)
Sound Mixer (KMix)
and no, I'm not interested enough in this case to click either link
If you had, you would have seen that both "Hi-guns" and "Hoi-guns" are acceptable.
There's no metal strip in $20 bills, nor was it because of the ink (or RFIDs). Here's what I want you to do: Take some plain printer paper. Cut it into about 50 $20-bill-sized pieces. Put that pile in the microwave. Turn the microwave on. Don't go anywhere, because you'll want to turn it back off very quickly. The result you'll see is remarkably similar to what the RFID guy got. Huh.