I think you highly overestimate our ideology. The fact that Steam is at least giving us a chance of being treated like first-rate citizens gives them SIGNIFICANT slack for any glitches. I do think DRM is overrated (by publishers) and ultimately useless as a tech, but it makes them feel better, so whatever. The whole point of this announcement is that Valve wants to make sure their system (DRM included) works properly on Linux. That's a total win.
Oh, and FYI the -usual- response of proper Linux geeks to something not working isn't "nerd rage", it's an offer to help fix the problem. That's how we built this thing, remember?
Every few months there are *more* awesomes games that just work (tm) under WINE. Lately there are also more games *I want to play* that don't (.NET 3.5, I HATE YOU!). Zeboyd, in particular, seems to find a way to make games I'd love to play that send WINE into an epileptic fixme fit.
The Humble Indie Bundles have been an absolute blessing in raising awareness that we exist and want to pay people for games.
Yeah, totally. I'm probably the target market for this kind of thing. Incidently, I do exist. I don't run Windows at all, ever. My Linux box single boots to Linux. Also, I love games, in several genres, and have disposable income.
Better Linux support makes me happy, and when I'm happy I spread my cash around more than when I'm unhappy. My current major source of unhappy is the growing number of.NET 3.5+ games on Steam that I'd really like to try (WINE seems to have some serious heartburn with.NET 3.5+ that hasn't been going away.) Yes, I know in theory this should spur me to go out and help fix things, but it's some pretty specific code in an area I'm not familiar with, which makes the entry cost really damn high.
To be honest, while I don't think DRM helps the publisher as much as they think it does (ie: It's useless), I really don't care if it's there as long as the game **WORKS**. If the game works, I'm happy, and companies will profit just a little bit more. If the game doesn't work, or even worse, doesn't work just because of DRM, then they should DIEDIEDIE. Steam's move here is good for me. They are trying to make sure that THEY are not what prevents me from playing (and buying games). That's good, since there are a lot of good games coming through steam.
Consider: Allowing them to choose to be unvaccinated significantly increases the risk for you and your children.
Diseases like this only vanish when everyone is vaccinated, otherwise local outbreaks can still spread from the unvaccinated into the general population.
This actually makes perfect sense. Consider the following:
1. Most children -are- vaccinated. 2. Vaccinations do not really make you "immune" to catching a disease, they train your body to more efficiently fight it off.
So, what happens is that the small percentage on unvaccinated children are bringing Whooping Cough back into contact with the rest of us, and those vaccinated children who perhaps don't have their immune system running at full capacity (tired, stress, fighting other illnesses, etc) catch it. Since there are statistically so many more of the latter available, it makes perfect sense that there are more cases in vaccinated children than unvaccinated.
A more interesting statistic would be if every outbreak could be traced back to an unvaccinated "patient zero". I strongly suspect this is the case.
This was answered scientifically in question 6, but I'll try to give a plain-language overview.
Fusion does not generate any weird radioactive isotopes like Fission does. It -does- generate a bunch of energetic neutrons, which both transfer energy to the electricity making part of an operating plant and can interact with whatever material the thermal shell is made from, possibly producing higher isotopes of that material.
They currently estimate that, after 50 years or so, the shell would need to be replaced and would indeed be generating background radiation, but they have been researching materials for it to minimize the long-term issues.
Other than that, we're good. Remember that most of the earth's current energy actually comes from our handy neighboring fusion reactor...
Hey, it was on The Colbert Show last night, so it *must* be relevant, or at least trending, or something.
I'm not an eco-nut, but I did grow up with the original Lorax (which bears little resemblence to the previews of this movie) and I do think the marketing department went off the rails a bit with the Mazda endorsement and tie-in.
Mind you, I'd probably have to think the same about -any- vehicle tie in that doesn't run on a sustainably grown quantity of truffala fruit.
It's just the business of the entertainment business at some of it's worst.
I've always been partial to The Register (www.theregister.co.uk) which is snarky and British (and the home of the BOFH) and to Ars Technica (www.arstechnica.com) which tries to focus on actually writing interesting articles about news rather than just linking to things.
There is often some overlap between themselves and/. but it's not as bad as you'd expect.
"Just defining "intensity" in a useful way can be difficult."
It doesn't seem that bad. Most of the relevant disaster-planning data can be expressed by giving both the average windspeed and the maximum windspeed. That lets people know both what they're likely to expect and the worst case they should plan for.
I strongly suspect, however, due to the rotational nature of hurricaines, that windspeed does not actually vary over "quadrants" very much, but is instead strongly correlated with radial distance from the "eye". If this were not the case, the energies would disperse rather quickly in different directions. Since they -are- naturally symmetrical, that makes it easier to pick an arbitrary point to measure at for formal "intensity". I should go ask my climatologist friend... he flies into hurricaines.
Size, precipitation, and land speed are also useful things to know, but not particularly related to intensity itself.
I don't think vi uses -any- modifier keys except for shift in normal use. It does handily swap between "typwriter mode" and "beep angrily mode" if you get confused, but that's completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
Soooooo yeah... I think you missed a clue somewhere.
When I got my EE in the early 90's, there wasn't any officially sanctioned CS degree on offer. You could either do an "Engineering and Applied Science" degree focusing on coding and algorithms, or a EE degree focusing on computer design and use.
If you went the EE route you still had to learn all the antenna theory and 3-phase stuff as well, but at the end you understood how computers worked -and- how to use them.
Fortran makes it really really easy to do complex matrix arithmetic. It also makes text manipulation a serious PITA. So, like so many other things, it's a trade-off between what a language makes easy to code and what you actually want to code.
His best known legend is that there was a young girl in his parish who wanted to marry but had no dowry. One evening while walking by he anonymously tossed a bag of gold through her window. This alleged event is where he derives the "gift-giving" persona from.
The elf thing only dates back to "Twas the Night before Christmas", which refers to him as "a right jolly old elf". Whether this was meant literally or familiarly is open to interpretation, but in any case the author wasn't an expert on St. Nick, despite single handedly (with a little help from Coca-Cola's marketing department) creating the modern western image of Santa.
Fun Fact: Before Coke's marketing, Santa most often appeared in cards dressed in green or furs, not red.
I'm sure he was wrong about something, but he was right about so much more.
The "free" in "free market", incidently, primarily refers to "freedom from monopolistic rents and tariffs", NOT "freedom for companies to do as they wish".
It starts with the quote then takes a very critical eye to it and brings up reasonable counter-examples that imply, in a nice journalistic manner, that he is full of shite.
No, it's because spellcheckers are often WRONG. They don't like foreign words, they don't like unusual words, they don't like domain-specific words; they don't like any words they haven't been programmed for.
Lately, when I write, I have to fight the spell-correction to make things properly correct more than it corrects me.
Your comment confuses me for the following reasons:
Ceviche *is* cooked. (The proteins are denatured with acid rather than heat.) Venison is *not* monkey. (Not even moderately related as far as species go.) Steak/Horse/Venison/etc Tartar (a raw chopped preparation) can be exceptionally tasty with no cooking whatsoever.
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I think you highly overestimate our ideology.
The fact that Steam is at least giving us a chance of being treated like first-rate citizens gives them SIGNIFICANT slack for any glitches. I do think DRM is overrated (by publishers) and ultimately useless as a tech, but it makes them feel better, so whatever. The whole point of this announcement is that Valve wants to make sure their system (DRM included) works properly on Linux. That's a total win.
Oh, and FYI the -usual- response of proper Linux geeks to something not working isn't "nerd rage", it's an offer to help fix the problem. That's how we built this thing, remember?
My experience is both, actually.
Every few months there are *more* awesomes games that just work (tm) under WINE.
Lately there are also more games *I want to play* that don't (.NET 3.5, I HATE YOU!).
Zeboyd, in particular, seems to find a way to make games I'd love to play that send WINE into an epileptic fixme fit.
The Humble Indie Bundles have been an absolute blessing in raising awareness that we exist and want to pay people for games.
Yeah, totally. I'm probably the target market for this kind of thing. Incidently, I do exist.
I don't run Windows at all, ever. My Linux box single boots to Linux.
Also, I love games, in several genres, and have disposable income.
Better Linux support makes me happy, and when I'm happy I spread my cash around more than when I'm unhappy. .NET 3.5+ games on Steam that I'd really like to try (WINE seems to have some serious heartburn with .NET 3.5+ that hasn't been going away.) Yes, I know in theory this should spur me to go out and help fix things, but it's some pretty specific code in an area I'm not familiar with, which makes the entry cost really damn high.
My current major source of unhappy is the growing number of
To be honest, while I don't think DRM helps the publisher as much as they think it does (ie: It's useless), I really don't care if it's there as long as the game **WORKS**. If the game works, I'm happy, and companies will profit just a little bit more. If the game doesn't work, or even worse, doesn't work just because of DRM, then they should DIEDIEDIE. Steam's move here is good for me. They are trying to make sure that THEY are not what prevents me from playing (and buying games). That's good, since there are a lot of good games coming through steam.
I am pleased.
Consider: Allowing them to choose to be unvaccinated significantly increases the risk for you and your children.
Diseases like this only vanish when everyone is vaccinated, otherwise local outbreaks can still spread from the unvaccinated into the general population.
This actually makes perfect sense. Consider the following:
1. Most children -are- vaccinated.
2. Vaccinations do not really make you "immune" to catching a disease, they train your body to more efficiently fight it off.
So, what happens is that the small percentage on unvaccinated children are bringing Whooping Cough back into contact with the rest of us, and those vaccinated children who perhaps don't have their immune system running at full capacity (tired, stress, fighting other illnesses, etc) catch it. Since there are statistically so many more of the latter available, it makes perfect sense that there are more cases in vaccinated children than unvaccinated.
A more interesting statistic would be if every outbreak could be traced back to an unvaccinated "patient zero". I strongly suspect this is the case.
This was answered scientifically in question 6, but I'll try to give a plain-language overview.
Fusion does not generate any weird radioactive isotopes like Fission does. It -does- generate a bunch of energetic neutrons, which both transfer energy to the electricity making part of an operating plant and can interact with whatever material the thermal shell is made from, possibly producing higher isotopes of that material.
They currently estimate that, after 50 years or so, the shell would need to be replaced and would indeed be generating background radiation, but they have been researching materials for it to minimize the long-term issues.
Other than that, we're good. Remember that most of the earth's current energy actually comes from our handy neighboring fusion reactor...
Tomorrow is Yesterday. Get with the program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_alumina
"...also likely to reinforce any of your existing biases since they're never neutral."
I thought we were talking about science content? Why would biases be relevant?
Independently reproduceable results rule; soundbites drool.
Make sure to consult your sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)
Also unreadable due to poor grammar and an almost total lack of sense.
"Come on... slow news day?"
Hey, it was on The Colbert Show last night, so it *must* be relevant, or at least trending, or something.
I'm not an eco-nut, but I did grow up with the original Lorax (which bears little resemblence to the previews of this movie) and I do think the marketing department went off the rails a bit with the Mazda endorsement and tie-in.
Mind you, I'd probably have to think the same about -any- vehicle tie in that doesn't run on a sustainably grown quantity of truffala fruit.
It's just the business of the entertainment business at some of it's worst.
I've always been partial to The Register (www.theregister.co.uk) which is snarky and British (and the home of the BOFH) and to Ars Technica (www.arstechnica.com) which tries to focus on actually writing interesting articles about news rather than just linking to things.
There is often some overlap between themselves and /. but it's not as bad as you'd expect.
"Just defining "intensity" in a useful way can be difficult."
It doesn't seem that bad. Most of the relevant disaster-planning data can be expressed by giving both the average windspeed and the maximum windspeed. That lets people know both what they're likely to expect and the worst case they should plan for.
I strongly suspect, however, due to the rotational nature of hurricaines, that windspeed does not actually vary over "quadrants" very much, but is instead strongly correlated with radial distance from the "eye". If this were not the case, the energies would disperse rather quickly in different directions. Since they -are- naturally symmetrical, that makes it easier to pick an arbitrary point to measure at for formal "intensity". I should go ask my climatologist friend... he flies into hurricaines.
Size, precipitation, and land speed are also useful things to know, but not particularly related to intensity itself.
I like Fry's, but am still sad that they no longer have the aisle of discrete CMOS and TTL components.
I don't think vi uses -any- modifier keys except for shift in normal use.
It does handily swap between "typwriter mode" and "beep angrily mode" if you get confused, but that's completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
Soooooo yeah... I think you missed a clue somewhere.
When I got my EE in the early 90's, there wasn't any officially sanctioned CS degree on offer. You could either do an "Engineering and Applied Science" degree focusing on coding and algorithms, or a EE degree focusing on computer design and use.
If you went the EE route you still had to learn all the antenna theory and 3-phase stuff as well, but at the end you understood how computers worked -and- how to use them.
Fortran makes it really really easy to do complex matrix arithmetic. It also makes text manipulation a serious PITA.
So, like so many other things, it's a trade-off between what a language makes easy to code and what you actually want to code.
Technically, "Linux" doesn't provide any UI at all.
Were you using Gnome, KDE, XFCE, TWM, or some other desktop/window manager?
It's important that we know where to properly assign the blame and file the bug report.
(I'd guess Gnome. They're rather notorious for completely hiding configuration options...)
;login: is still pretty good, and on dead tree. It's the journal of USENIX/SAGE.
I have an entire shelf of the things going back to Babbage-knows when.
St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra in the mid 300s.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11063b.htm
His best known legend is that there was a young girl in his parish who wanted to marry but had no dowry. One evening while walking by he anonymously tossed a bag of gold through her window. This alleged event is where he derives the "gift-giving" persona from.
The elf thing only dates back to "Twas the Night before Christmas", which refers to him as "a right jolly old elf". Whether this was meant literally or familiarly is open to interpretation, but in any case the author wasn't an expert on St. Nick, despite single handedly (with a little help from Coca-Cola's marketing department) creating the modern western image of Santa.
Fun Fact: Before Coke's marketing, Santa most often appeared in cards dressed in green or furs, not red.
I'm sure he was wrong about something, but he was right about so much more.
The "free" in "free market", incidently, primarily refers to "freedom from monopolistic rents and tariffs", NOT "freedom for companies to do as they wish".
Brilliant.
RTFA please.
It starts with the quote then takes a very critical eye to it and brings up reasonable counter-examples that imply, in a nice journalistic manner, that he is full of shite.
No, it's because spellcheckers are often WRONG.
They don't like foreign words, they don't like unusual words, they don't like domain-specific words; they don't like any words they haven't been programmed for.
Lately, when I write, I have to fight the spell-correction to make things properly correct more than it corrects me.
Your comment confuses me for the following reasons:
Ceviche *is* cooked. (The proteins are denatured with acid rather than heat.)
Venison is *not* monkey. (Not even moderately related as far as species go.)
Steak/Horse/Venison/etc Tartar (a raw chopped preparation) can be exceptionally tasty with no cooking whatsoever.
Nice.
Someone who still gets points please mod parent up for rational and insightful discussion.