Getting rid of excess hair is easy and relatively cheap. A girlfriend and I had planned on getting it done - her for her legs and me for my back. Adding hair back to the crown of my head (getting close to the point I'm going to have the chop off the several feet of hair I have to avoid having the "loser living in his mom's basement" skull-crown look) is significantly more painful and costly. The only real treatments long-term now involve grafts or artificial implants.
"Public and private communications" is not within that Ammendment, you might notice.
Scanning Internet packets also does not constitute either a search nor a seizure. You are already passing the information through the ISP. All the new law requires is that the ISP willingly pass over any of that information to the FBI upon issuance of a warrant.
Myst, Neverwinter Nights, Pirates, Monkey Island, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Age of Empires, Civilization, Warlords, Heroes of Might and Magic... I could go on, but you probably get the jist of it.
My Dad also games, but he sticks to the FPS games. Unreal series is his favorite.
Maybe it's just the generation gap. I was born just a few years before the advent of video game consoles, and my parents were still young early-20's types then, and they'd played with arcade games before. They picked up an Atari 2600 for themselves, and a couple years later when I was old enough, an NES (came out when I was about 5, I think).
The next few generations are even more likely to see gamer moms. Every girl I know plays at least a few video games, and some are even bigger gaming geeks than I am (I've helped a couple ex-girlfriends build new gaming rigs better than my machine in the last few months). Gamer moms won't see so weird in a few years, I think, as the current crop of young kids will have parents who were themselves gamers as kids.
We had a literal Big Red Button near the door to our (small) data center at my last job. My boss and I didn't know what it was for, although we guessed it was a shut-off for the power to the entire room. Our APCs at that time could only keep things running for about 30 minutes, tops.
We never did push the button, but after a couple years my boss had maintenance physically remove the button, just to get rid of the temptation.:)
"Just because ammunition is available doesn't mean it's more useful than an M-16"
I admit to not being that up on modern warfare, but I'm pretty sure that having ammo for an AK-47 makes that gun infinitely more useful than an M-16 for which you have run out of ammo.
Right. Because making it illegal to copy a fucking movie is really worthy of hell.
I mean, rapists, murderers, wife beaters, child abusers, people who don't let you watch movies... they're all the same.
Sure, the guy was a douche, and I'll be first in line to agree he deserved a swift kick in the ass, but that doesn't equate to deserving eternal torment in hell.
The answer of course then is to increase AI and decrease fire power.
A far, far weaker opponent can defeat an enemy if its clever enough.
The big problem with boss fights in MMOs is that they are one guy vs. a party, and pretty much rely on raw firepower, zerging, or number balancing to beat.
I've always been a fan of games like Zelda where defeating an enemy is not based on fire power (you don't generally get many "stat ups" in Zelda), or even that much on skill with a controller, but is instead based on figuring out a puzzle.
Unfortunately, that tends to reduce replayability.
The best "AI" I can think of for a game is not AI that controls the actions of monsters, but AI that builds the actual series of obstacles and puzzles. Then you can have games oriented towards thought and problem solving that is also highly replayable.
Of course, from an industry standpoint, that's not necessarily a good thing. It is better for the bottom line to simply make multiple games than to have one game that lasts for a long time.
"Normal" in what sense? Keep in mind that the entire idea of a controller with a thumbpad on one side and buttons on the other didn't exist until Nintendo came along. I'm sure people then were also skeptical on how "normal" games would be played.;)
The Wii-mote can be turned sideways, and in that respect can function a lot like a "normal" Nintendo controller. Super Paper Mario is one game I own that does this. Plus it also occasionally makes use of the pointing and motion abilities, too, in a very intuitive and easy to play by manner.
There's also the Wii Classic Controller, which is (as its name implies) a classically-shaped controller. While intended for the Virtual Console, I wouldn't be surprised if new games start requiring it, too. Plus, as you say, you can just use the Gamecube controllers.
While I'll admit that needing to buy a Wii-mote, and then also buy additional controller parts (classic controller and nun-chuk controller) is irritating, and rather expensive, in the end it's probably a smooth idea, as it increases the number of game styles the system can support. And it's not like consumers aren't already used to buying unique controllers, such as the Guitar Hero controller or DDR mats and the like.
Users who call up a company they have no relation to in order to tell them their tech decisions are bad are complete morons. Linux is an OS, not a religion. If a company wants to run Oracle Linux, Red Hat, BeOS, Windows ME, or Mac OS 7 is completely their choice to make.
The first part we are all aware of. The second part... on what basis did that come from? I can't think of a single person who "likes" Windows. They simply use Windows because they don't have a whole lot of choice: it's either all they know how to use, or the only OS that plays their games, or the only OS that runs on, etc.
You might even be able to convince me that people like Windows [i]more than[/i] alternatives, like OS X and Linux. I could easily see that. OS X has some really dumb design flaws and Linux is still a pain in the ass to use as soon as you want to run non-standard software (not even Debian packages *everything*, people). In a lot of ways, Windows is easier and it's quicker to get certain things done.
However, I still don't buy that there is a great number of people who "like Windows" entirely on its own merits. They might like it better than nothing, or better than alternatives, but that's isn't the same as liking Windows. It's like saying that I like having a broken arm because it's better than having no arm or having a frost-bitten arm.
The iTMS (iTunes Music Store) was cracked, meaning that people were able to buy DRM-free songs from iTMS using custom software. iTMS 6.0 changed that, and to date, it is not possible to buy unencrypted music from an account registered with iTMS 6.0 or higher. It's possible to run older iTMS versions (for now) and buy music, but some of us had extensive music purchases before we got our heads out of our butts and realized we wanted to play the music on something other than an iPod.
The DRM encryption itself is completely uncracked. IF you can get a hold of your decryption key, there is code to decrypt your music files. Apple has done a rather amazing job of keeping that key secured, though. It's pretty much impossible to pull it off of newer iPods, and I think it's not possible yet to extract it from a box with iTunes 6+.
If I'm wrong about that, let me know... I've got 250+ encrypted songs I'd really like to play on my Linux box with its superior sound setup, instead of on my iBook.
We just bought a pack of bulbs for our new apartment, and the delay is definitely still there. They also seem to have an ever-so-slight yellow tint to them. Slight enough that I didn't notice it until my roommate pointed it out, but it drove him bonkers.
Also, dimmer switches don't work with the bulbs. The large four-bulb room-height lamp I have in my bedroom can, with normal bulbs, range anywhere from off, to barely visible, smoothly up to damn bright. With the CDTs in it, it can only do completely off and damn bright.
Maybe I just got a crappy brand, but from my experiences, CDTs just aren't worth the power savings.
The "legal way" thing probably refers to the inability to provide a legal WMV player for Linux, not that it isn't legal for the EU to stream in another format. I don't think anyone there is trying to say that it's illegal to stream in a different format. Rather, they are saying that since WMV is what they use (for whatever reason - political, economic, or simply fiat), Linux users can't be supported.
There are two reasons why your suggestion won't work.
First, let's say that you upgrade some hardware. There will be no way for the OS to know that there's new hardware unless it goes through the hardware detection and configuration stages of bootup, which is what takes most of the time. Worse, if it doesn't do this, the system will probably just crash, as the memory image loaded will have the wrong set of drivers installed and they'll be pointing at the wrong set of hardware addresses.
Second, and this is more of a recent issue, there is a lot of work that's going into randomizing memory addresses to increase security. In the event of a security hole, randomized memory addresses make it far more difficult to take control of the machine as a hacker, virus, or worm can't use a hard-coded memory address during the attack. With a pre-built boot-up image, the memory addresses will not be randomized, which defeats a lot of the gain of this security benefit.
That said, you could just use hibernation on your computer. That is essentially the same thing as what you're asking for. A desktop is just as capable of sleeping or hibernating as a laptop is. The only thing is, if you want to make any hardware changes, you must remember to turn on the machine and do a complete shutdown first.
Also, there are companies who are focusing on bootup speed. In fact, every major Linux distro has been focusing on it for the last year or two. It's unfortunately just not that easy to speed things up without sacrificing stability or functionality.
I thought AMD was bragging about how their qaud-core CPUs were going to be "native," unlike Intel's which were going to just be two dual-core CPUs on one die? Or is this 4x4 platform not meant to be their real quad-core solutions, just an interim "hack" until the quad-cores come out in 2007?
So what's the liklihood of having a severance package to go along with that non-compete clause? I wouldn't myself dream of working anywhere that had a non-compete agreement if they didn't add a severance package to the agreement.
That's not quite correct. It shows how two species can turn into three species.
i.e., say you have some species the western part of some region, and another in the eastern part. As they migrate around, they may encounter each other and begin mating in the central part of the region. You now have the original species living in the west and east, and a new species in the middle.
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Getting rid of excess hair is easy and relatively cheap. A girlfriend and I had planned on getting it done - her for her legs and me for my back. Adding hair back to the crown of my head (getting close to the point I'm going to have the chop off the several feet of hair I have to avoid having the "loser living in his mom's basement" skull-crown look) is significantly more painful and costly. The only real treatments long-term now involve grafts or artificial implants.
"Public and private communications" is not within that Ammendment, you might notice.
Scanning Internet packets also does not constitute either a search nor a seizure. You are already passing the information through the ISP. All the new law requires is that the ISP willingly pass over any of that information to the FBI upon issuance of a warrant.
Myst, Neverwinter Nights, Pirates, Monkey Island, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Age of Empires, Civilization, Warlords, Heroes of Might and Magic... I could go on, but you probably get the jist of it.
My Dad also games, but he sticks to the FPS games. Unreal series is his favorite.
Maybe it's just the generation gap. I was born just a few years before the advent of video game consoles, and my parents were still young early-20's types then, and they'd played with arcade games before. They picked up an Atari 2600 for themselves, and a couple years later when I was old enough, an NES (came out when I was about 5, I think).
The next few generations are even more likely to see gamer moms. Every girl I know plays at least a few video games, and some are even bigger gaming geeks than I am (I've helped a couple ex-girlfriends build new gaming rigs better than my machine in the last few months). Gamer moms won't see so weird in a few years, I think, as the current crop of young kids will have parents who were themselves gamers as kids.
We had a literal Big Red Button near the door to our (small) data center at my last job. My boss and I didn't know what it was for, although we guessed it was a shut-off for the power to the entire room. Our APCs at that time could only keep things running for about 30 minutes, tops.
:)
We never did push the button, but after a couple years my boss had maintenance physically remove the button, just to get rid of the temptation.
"Just because ammunition is available doesn't mean it's more useful than an M-16"
I admit to not being that up on modern warfare, but I'm pretty sure that having ammo for an AK-47 makes that gun infinitely more useful than an M-16 for which you have run out of ammo.
Right. Because making it illegal to copy a fucking movie is really worthy of hell.
I mean, rapists, murderers, wife beaters, child abusers, people who don't let you watch movies... they're all the same.
Sure, the guy was a douche, and I'll be first in line to agree he deserved a swift kick in the ass, but that doesn't equate to deserving eternal torment in hell.
The answer of course then is to increase AI and decrease fire power.
A far, far weaker opponent can defeat an enemy if its clever enough.
The big problem with boss fights in MMOs is that they are one guy vs. a party, and pretty much rely on raw firepower, zerging, or number balancing to beat.
I've always been a fan of games like Zelda where defeating an enemy is not based on fire power (you don't generally get many "stat ups" in Zelda), or even that much on skill with a controller, but is instead based on figuring out a puzzle.
Unfortunately, that tends to reduce replayability.
The best "AI" I can think of for a game is not AI that controls the actions of monsters, but AI that builds the actual series of obstacles and puzzles. Then you can have games oriented towards thought and problem solving that is also highly replayable.
Of course, from an industry standpoint, that's not necessarily a good thing. It is better for the bottom line to simply make multiple games than to have one game that lasts for a long time.
"Normal" in what sense? Keep in mind that the entire idea of a controller with a thumbpad on one side and buttons on the other didn't exist until Nintendo came along. I'm sure people then were also skeptical on how "normal" games would be played. ;)
The Wii-mote can be turned sideways, and in that respect can function a lot like a "normal" Nintendo controller. Super Paper Mario is one game I own that does this. Plus it also occasionally makes use of the pointing and motion abilities, too, in a very intuitive and easy to play by manner.
There's also the Wii Classic Controller, which is (as its name implies) a classically-shaped controller. While intended for the Virtual Console, I wouldn't be surprised if new games start requiring it, too. Plus, as you say, you can just use the Gamecube controllers.
While I'll admit that needing to buy a Wii-mote, and then also buy additional controller parts (classic controller and nun-chuk controller) is irritating, and rather expensive, in the end it's probably a smooth idea, as it increases the number of game styles the system can support. And it's not like consumers aren't already used to buying unique controllers, such as the Guitar Hero controller or DDR mats and the like.
Users who call up a company they have no relation to in order to tell them their tech decisions are bad are complete morons. Linux is an OS, not a religion. If a company wants to run Oracle Linux, Red Hat, BeOS, Windows ME, or Mac OS 7 is completely their choice to make.
Megatokyo is for people who don't get laid.
"(I remember friends throwing harddrives in rivers..)"
Personally, I think that should be punishable by 10 years in prison, more than any copying of data should be.
You need to come out to the SCA then. We all make our own weapons. Granted, I've yet to eat any of my opponents.
Yet.
So all your need is some titanate to get stiffer?
Didn't we already know that?
That 10 years from now, 99% of American Castlevania fans will *still* have never played Rondo.
Seriously, who actually owns a PSP? I don't think I've ever even seen one.
"Tons upon tons of people use it and like it."
The first part we are all aware of. The second part... on what basis did that come from? I can't think of a single person who "likes" Windows. They simply use Windows because they don't have a whole lot of choice: it's either all they know how to use, or the only OS that plays their games, or the only OS that runs on, etc.
You might even be able to convince me that people like Windows [i]more than[/i] alternatives, like OS X and Linux. I could easily see that. OS X has some really dumb design flaws and Linux is still a pain in the ass to use as soon as you want to run non-standard software (not even Debian packages *everything*, people). In a lot of ways, Windows is easier and it's quicker to get certain things done.
However, I still don't buy that there is a great number of people who "like Windows" entirely on its own merits. They might like it better than nothing, or better than alternatives, but that's isn't the same as liking Windows. It's like saying that I like having a broken arm because it's better than having no arm or having a frost-bitten arm.
No, it is not cracked.
The iTMS (iTunes Music Store) was cracked, meaning that people were able to buy DRM-free songs from iTMS using custom software. iTMS 6.0 changed that, and to date, it is not possible to buy unencrypted music from an account registered with iTMS 6.0 or higher. It's possible to run older iTMS versions (for now) and buy music, but some of us had extensive music purchases before we got our heads out of our butts and realized we wanted to play the music on something other than an iPod.
The DRM encryption itself is completely uncracked. IF you can get a hold of your decryption key, there is code to decrypt your music files. Apple has done a rather amazing job of keeping that key secured, though. It's pretty much impossible to pull it off of newer iPods, and I think it's not possible yet to extract it from a box with iTunes 6+.
If I'm wrong about that, let me know... I've got 250+ encrypted songs I'd really like to play on my Linux box with its superior sound setup, instead of on my iBook.
And what the hell does that have to do with the question?
The question is about which text-based UI library is used, not which editor/IDE is used.
We just bought a pack of bulbs for our new apartment, and the delay is definitely still there. They also seem to have an ever-so-slight yellow tint to them. Slight enough that I didn't notice it until my roommate pointed it out, but it drove him bonkers.
Also, dimmer switches don't work with the bulbs. The large four-bulb room-height lamp I have in my bedroom can, with normal bulbs, range anywhere from off, to barely visible, smoothly up to damn bright. With the CDTs in it, it can only do completely off and damn bright.
Maybe I just got a crappy brand, but from my experiences, CDTs just aren't worth the power savings.
The "legal way" thing probably refers to the inability to provide a legal WMV player for Linux, not that it isn't legal for the EU to stream in another format. I don't think anyone there is trying to say that it's illegal to stream in a different format. Rather, they are saying that since WMV is what they use (for whatever reason - political, economic, or simply fiat), Linux users can't be supported.
This article has a confusing title, given that dominance of the Cairo graphics library these days.
There are two reasons why your suggestion won't work.
First, let's say that you upgrade some hardware. There will be no way for the OS to know that there's new hardware unless it goes through the hardware detection and configuration stages of bootup, which is what takes most of the time. Worse, if it doesn't do this, the system will probably just crash, as the memory image loaded will have the wrong set of drivers installed and they'll be pointing at the wrong set of hardware addresses.
Second, and this is more of a recent issue, there is a lot of work that's going into randomizing memory addresses to increase security. In the event of a security hole, randomized memory addresses make it far more difficult to take control of the machine as a hacker, virus, or worm can't use a hard-coded memory address during the attack. With a pre-built boot-up image, the memory addresses will not be randomized, which defeats a lot of the gain of this security benefit.
That said, you could just use hibernation on your computer. That is essentially the same thing as what you're asking for. A desktop is just as capable of sleeping or hibernating as a laptop is. The only thing is, if you want to make any hardware changes, you must remember to turn on the machine and do a complete shutdown first.
Also, there are companies who are focusing on bootup speed. In fact, every major Linux distro has been focusing on it for the last year or two. It's unfortunately just not that easy to speed things up without sacrificing stability or functionality.
I thought AMD was bragging about how their qaud-core CPUs were going to be "native," unlike Intel's which were going to just be two dual-core CPUs on one die? Or is this 4x4 platform not meant to be their real quad-core solutions, just an interim "hack" until the quad-cores come out in 2007?
One of the proposed additions for C++0x includes Contract Programming functionality built into the core language/library.
Do a Google search for "c++ std wg" to find the working group page, which includes a list of papers and proposals.
So what's the liklihood of having a severance package to go along with that non-compete clause? I wouldn't myself dream of working anywhere that had a non-compete agreement if they didn't add a severance package to the agreement.
That's not quite correct. It shows how two species can turn into three species.
i.e., say you have some species the western part of some region, and another in the eastern part. As they migrate around, they may encounter each other and begin mating in the central part of the region. You now have the original species living in the west and east, and a new species in the middle.