It doesn't even need to release a new version every 6 months to keep the hearts of geeks. I've run debian on a couple machines (laptop, discarded school computer used as a file share) and I must say it's given me very little trouble. I've only gotten frustrated once with it, and that was because I forgot to uncomment a line in the samba config.
So this should be cool, I'm looking forward to seeing what semi-new software makes the cut.
I've yet to read this article, but does anyone have any info on load times for these games? With battery life only at 2 hours, waiting more than a few seconds for loading a level could be very annoying.
Also, i'm guessing the spinning of the disc might be rather noticable if you are holding it in a lose group. I can feel when my laptop spins the cd drive, will this be noticable (if so, will it be annoying) in the PSP?
The US government is designed around checks and balances. The branches will oppose one another if they get out of line, and even it takes forever to get something done, in the end it usually ends up right. However, knowing that eventually everything falls apart, the constitution granted one last balance to the people, the right to bear arms. IF things ever got so bad that the government's internal balances fail, the people are capable of creating new government. This is how the country became independant fron England.
This may sound far fetched, but I think it's the road we are headed down right now. Everything is so "with us or against us" right now that conflict in the US seems inevetible within 50 years if nothing changes the attitudes of Americans. If/When the revolution comes again, Amendment #2 will be right there with the fighters.
I've been writing short stories on and off about this internet robot type charcter, I may as well focus all the random efforts into a quick novel. I can typically write an unedited story of 700 words in 45 minutes if I have a theme in mind, so if I can avergae an hour or two most days of novemember, I might just pull this off.
This sounds like a good time, even if your novel isn't all that great. At least you can go up to people and say "I wrote a novel, it just hasn't been published yet." You could go hang out at trendy coffeehouses with a laptop and pick up chicks, or something. The sheer geekiness of carrying around a laptop is overcome by the mysterious author bonus! Though you may lose the art bonus when they find you pulled a space ghost and filled the last chapter with "lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu" to meet the word count.
may as well plug my short stories: http://fred.wackiness.org
Don't play against Ken Jennings. You will lose. I've heard the rumors about him losing, but I don't believe it. If youwalk on stage and see Ken's smiling face, turn right back around and save yourself the trouble of playing.
Face it, the Half Life franchise is well worth Half-Life 3. I think the big companies may go down in DRM flames, but somewhere, someone will make video games. Indie gaming is the future! Look how well it worked for music!
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You left out poor. Normally I wouldn't jump someone on that, but I think it adds to the point. I really need to stop paying so much attention in Political Philosophy. I used the acronym Poor Nasty Brutish and Short in a paper the other day.
Yeah, I've bought something from Walmart once the past five years, cause it was the only store in town with Moutain Dew that I could get to. Moral principles crumble in the face of a Mountain Dew shortage.
This is bad. A Blizzard boycott is not likely, due to the quality of their titles overall. I won't be getting whatever they come out with next, but a million fanboys will.
The solution? Someone comes out with a popular piece of software with some crazy clause in the EULA. Like "On October 31st, 2009, your right to use this software is revoked, along with your computer, which becomes our property on the date" or some such. People won't care, and when the enforcement lawsuits come to take your computers, we'll see if this curent decision isn't overturned. Bad news in the meantime, though.
I remember assorted arcade games with feedback of various sorts well before 2000. The really expensive flight sims, for example, where the whole player area would move. Patent law seems stupid, so I doubt this will apply, but that had to be sometime during the 90s...
Will they port Donkey Kong 64 to it? I remember how much fun item fetch quests were single player, why, with two screens and 4 players, the game but be less than awful...
I'm worried that deathmatch might do bad things to the metroid franchise, but mario kart and tennis turned out okay, so I doubt they can mess it up to badly.
with a certain configuration, your file and printer sharing data are visible worldwide, despite an activated Firewall.
With a certain configuration, ssh is accessable from outside, even with a firewall. if the configuration includes passwordless root, well then, a slashdot summary "ssh allows remote root access despite firewall" would be a tad overzealous, right? Unless the certain configuration is ever the default, this is just users not understanding what they are doing and missetting things. Not a MS problem, it's giving users a choice. It's just a very bad choice to make, but no different than, say, root telnet over wireless internet or something.
open membership to a point, then no new accounts for a while, and ban as needed. Allow new accounts monthly/yearly, as you are willing to put up with annoying users. That way you deal with trolls by account banning 3 days a month, and no one has to wait all that long to sign up.
This was emploed at gamefaqs on LUE, and things seem to have improved since the lockout. people whine about not getting in, but that's the price of security i guess.
I'd change the name of this new superphone. N-gage is near universally connected mentally with sidetalkin, and the numerous design flaws. Anything with the name N-Gage right now will most likely sell poorly. People will go to their geek friends, ask about the N-Gage, geeks get sidetalkin flashback and laugh, consumer buys a game boy.
Unless they pull a memory card RAID (doable, but why bother, and way more expensive) that seems to be a deathblow to any reverse compatability rumors.
Not to troll, but what are your more than 10 excellent xbox exclusive games? Last time I counted Halo was only working on number 2... Splinter Cell has been ported
Also, having to pay royalities on two video cards might bring the price up a bit.
This is perfectly legal for the university, assuming that they in fact *own* the residence in which it is occuring.
They don't. Kinda messes with your argument, that.
From the article:
Some students in Waterview have been experiencing problems when trying to connect to the UTD Wireless Network. The reason has been found to be the result of over 100 wireless access points being set up by residents. These access points are connecting to Comcast Cable Modems or to SBC DSL (or other providers) for their Internet access and then are being shared out to other residents within the same or adjacent suites.
It's none of the University's bussiness what students do in their own apartments off campus land on their own connections.
Of course, there is the chance that you are joking. I doubt anyone could type that bad and still be close enough for me to rad it intentionally.
And yes, this is way offtopic. I better post something related, insightfully if possible
See, this is the kind of thing that is a result of stress. 300 Billion a year is hard to imagine. This guy posting drunk to slashdot, cause he (maybe) drinks away the stress on weekends, that's something we can relate to. All that money is just speculation, but see what a little stress and a lot of alcohol will do to you? This is what's runing america.
The timeline on the site is odd. Mentions Sega Saturn over Playstation, Pocket Pikachu over Half-Life, nothing of Xbox-live, didn't even mention Doom or Wolfenstein. Lame.
I don't know the name, it had ewoks, and was awful. It was at least an hour long, and only my younger siblings who could watch anything animated made it to the end. Avoid, unless you are doing Mr. Sinus theatre or some other derivative.
I hope they charge to use it for more than half an hour though. We've got enough waste in government without every city offering free wifi. I would guess the majority of people don't benefit from this, even if it is cool.
No mention of security in the article, but I would hope they use some kind of encryption, else the script kiddies will have a field day getting a city's worth of passwords out of Philly.
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So this should be cool, I'm looking forward to seeing what semi-new software makes the cut.
Also, i'm guessing the spinning of the disc might be rather noticable if you are holding it in a lose group. I can feel when my laptop spins the cd drive, will this be noticable (if so, will it be annoying) in the PSP?
The US government is designed around checks and balances. The branches will oppose one another if they get out of line, and even it takes forever to get something done, in the end it usually ends up right. However, knowing that eventually everything falls apart, the constitution granted one last balance to the people, the right to bear arms. IF things ever got so bad that the government's internal balances fail, the people are capable of creating new government. This is how the country became independant fron England.
This may sound far fetched, but I think it's the road we are headed down right now. Everything is so "with us or against us" right now that conflict in the US seems inevetible within 50 years if nothing changes the attitudes of Americans. If/When the revolution comes again, Amendment #2 will be right there with the fighters.
There is irony in this somewhere. Not that I disagree, but the irony is painfully obvious in statements like that.
All general statements are false, including this one.
This sounds like a good time, even if your novel isn't all that great. At least you can go up to people and say "I wrote a novel, it just hasn't been published yet." You could go hang out at trendy coffeehouses with a laptop and pick up chicks, or something. The sheer geekiness of carrying around a laptop is overcome by the mysterious author bonus! Though you may lose the art bonus when they find you pulled a space ghost and filled the last chapter with "lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu" to meet the word count.
may as well plug my short stories: http://fred.wackiness.org
Turns out the crusades happened before violent media even existed, and lots of people died!
Don't play against Ken Jennings. You will lose. I've heard the rumors about him losing, but I don't believe it. If youwalk on stage and see Ken's smiling face, turn right back around and save yourself the trouble of playing.
We can only wish my friend, we can only wish
Yeah, I dream about greasy girls covered in cheap pickles and ketchup too.
Face it, the Half Life franchise is well worth Half-Life 3. I think the big companies may go down in DRM flames, but somewhere, someone will make video games. Indie gaming is the future! Look how well it worked for music!
You left out poor. Normally I wouldn't jump someone on that, but I think it adds to the point. I really need to stop paying so much attention in Political Philosophy. I used the acronym Poor Nasty Brutish and Short in a paper the other day.
Yeah, I've bought something from Walmart once the past five years, cause it was the only store in town with Moutain Dew that I could get to. Moral principles crumble in the face of a Mountain Dew shortage.
The solution? Someone comes out with a popular piece of software with some crazy clause in the EULA. Like "On October 31st, 2009, your right to use this software is revoked, along with your computer, which becomes our property on the date" or some such. People won't care, and when the enforcement lawsuits come to take your computers, we'll see if this curent decision isn't overturned. Bad news in the meantime, though.
The GPL looks better and better every day.
I remember assorted arcade games with feedback of various sorts well before 2000. The really expensive flight sims, for example, where the whole player area would move. Patent law seems stupid, so I doubt this will apply, but that had to be sometime during the 90s...
I'm worried that deathmatch might do bad things to the metroid franchise, but mario kart and tennis turned out okay, so I doubt they can mess it up to badly.
With a certain configuration, ssh is accessable from outside, even with a firewall. if the configuration includes passwordless root, well then, a slashdot summary "ssh allows remote root access despite firewall" would be a tad overzealous, right? Unless the certain configuration is ever the default, this is just users not understanding what they are doing and missetting things. Not a MS problem, it's giving users a choice. It's just a very bad choice to make, but no different than, say, root telnet over wireless internet or something.
This was emploed at gamefaqs on LUE, and things seem to have improved since the lockout. people whine about not getting in, but that's the price of security i guess.
I'd change the name of this new superphone. N-gage is near universally connected mentally with sidetalkin, and the numerous design flaws. Anything with the name N-Gage right now will most likely sell poorly. People will go to their geek friends, ask about the N-Gage, geeks get sidetalkin flashback and laugh, consumer buys a game boy.
5. No hard drive.
Unless they pull a memory card RAID (doable, but why bother, and way more expensive) that seems to be a deathblow to any reverse compatability rumors.
Not to troll, but what are your more than 10 excellent xbox exclusive games? Last time I counted Halo was only working on number 2... Splinter Cell has been ported
Also, having to pay royalities on two video cards might bring the price up a bit.
They don't. Kinda messes with your argument, that.
From the article:
Some students in Waterview have been experiencing problems when trying to connect to the UTD Wireless Network. The reason has been found to be the result of over 100 wireless access points being set up by residents. These access points are connecting to Comcast Cable Modems or to SBC DSL (or other providers) for their Internet access and then are being shared out to other residents within the same or adjacent suites.
It's none of the University's bussiness what students do in their own apartments off campus land on their own connections.
Thank you very much, editors, for a new color scheme that does not lay my eyes to burnination. The smooth blues lessen the rage of politics. Awesome.
Alcoholics Anonymous
See, that's at least two times you've done this now. Yesterday sometime
Of course, there is the chance that you are joking. I doubt anyone could type that bad and still be close enough for me to rad it intentionally.
And yes, this is way offtopic. I better post something related, insightfully if possible
See, this is the kind of thing that is a result of stress. 300 Billion a year is hard to imagine. This guy posting drunk to slashdot, cause he (maybe) drinks away the stress on weekends, that's something we can relate to. All that money is just speculation, but see what a little stress and a lot of alcohol will do to you? This is what's runing america.
The timeline on the site is odd. Mentions Sega Saturn over Playstation, Pocket Pikachu over Half-Life, nothing of Xbox-live, didn't even mention Doom or Wolfenstein. Lame.
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Another CG from space
I'd hate to be in Florida right now.
I don't know the name, it had ewoks, and was awful. It was at least an hour long, and only my younger siblings who could watch anything animated made it to the end. Avoid, unless you are doing Mr. Sinus theatre or some other derivative.
the basics of installing new programs for whatever distro you train them on
bash / other shell usage
And the most important to any linux user:
Nethack. How to move about and kill grid bugs, stairs, not to attack dragons, etc...
No mention of security in the article, but I would hope they use some kind of encryption, else the script kiddies will have a field day getting a city's worth of passwords out of Philly.