Maybe we can put them into an isolated chamber, connect the chamber to a particle accelerator and thus construct a bogon cannon. Who needs a messy EMP when you can screw your enemies' equipment with a focused bogon ray?
Great idea. 2027 we'll see announcements that a) Singularity will use Hurd as a foundation to build upon and b) Hurd will use Singularity as a foundation to build upon.
Note that you don't register your apps with OS X, which I like. Most apps should not need to access system configuration files so there's no need for them to mess with the system in any way. So why tell the system you're there? There's only a few apps that would profit from this (the ones that actually extend the system, like kernel hacks), everywhere else it's just useless data.
Instead of giving Linux the same user-hostile installation routine as Windows (Apps scatter their stuff all over the system, which of course makes an uninstallation routine necessary) I'd like them to adopt a shell-friendly version of Apple's Application Bundles. I'm thinking of something like this:
~ $ tar -xjf Gonkulator.app.tar.bz2
~ $ which gonkulator
which: no gonkulator in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/home/user/ Apps)
~ $ mv Gonkulator.app ~/Apps
~ $ which gonkulator /home/user/Apps/Gonkulator.app/Contents/Linux/gonk ulator
(The App Bundle handler recognizes folders with the.app extension and scans them for executables - probably using an extended Info.plist)
I'm referring to a promotional video of F.E.A.R. (IIRC it was from some gaming magazine). The game looked mostly nice but in one scene I saw huge smoke clouds that were cut in half by the floor. Butt-ugly. Quake 3 looked good to me, but newer games don't because the graphics are so damn inconsitent. Oh well, at least it makes it easier for me to keep from booting into Windows.
But then a bitmap smoke puff clips through a wall and the game still looks like ass. Seriously, with all that focus on graphics you'd expect that they'd use volumetric effects everywhere by now. Until they do, games will not get any better graphics-wise than Quake 3 did. (Yes, I prefer consistent graphics over eye-candy. If you go out of your way to create an immersive game don't destroy immersion by using nonvolumetric smoke puffs. Or at least make sure that they never ever touch anything else.)
I've heard they are here to protect us from the terrible secret of space. Does space have a terrible power? And will shoving or pushing protect us from the terrible secret of space?
1.) Create Earth
2.) See that it is good
3.) Create life using evolution
4.) Laugh your ass off watching the humans argue over whether you created them or they came into being through evolution
5.) ?????
6.) Profit!
According to the German Wikipedia article the strongest beer is an American beer ("Barley Johns Rosies Ale") with 28% alcohol (but you call anything above 4.5% malt liquor - which applies to most German beers). Also, I know that monks brewed some fairly strong beer which they consumed during lent.
And yes, I should have written "99%". But you can interpret my figure as 90% water and 10% normal beer, which approximates what I meant, although it might only be 90% accurate.;)
Cologne and D'dorf sell their beer in 0.2 glasses, Bavaria usually sells theirs in 1 liter glasses ("Maß") or even bigger, everyone else is somewhere in between. Over here (near Bremen) you usually get a small pilsener (0.2l), a large pilsener (0.4l) or a wheat beer (0.5l). Note that Kölsch (the beer you get in Cologne) is exceptionally expensive. I don't know about Alt (the D'dorfian beer).
If you prefer stuff with 90% water (i.e. the stereotypical American beer) and happen to end up in Cologne, try Kölsch. It's the most watery beer Germany has to offer and it's made from liquid gold. At least the price seems to indicate that...
(Note: The inhabitants of Cologne will tell you that Kölsch is the world's best beer. As someone who hates the taste of beer I can certainly vouch for that.)
I started the transition to Linux after I first heard about what Microsoft hat planned for Longhorn. I was concerned about my privacy when XP wanted to phone home, but when I read about what the TCPA (yes, that was before they renamed themselves) had planned I decided that I'd rather stop being a casual gamer than sick with Windows.
The funny thing is that just now a community I'm in is discussing this very thing - and after the other users heard that even the monitors and speakers are supposed to have encryption most decided that they'd use Linux or OS X rather than Vista as their main OS. The only ones who are sticking with windows are doing so because they use software that's Win-only. It's weird; most users are really surprised by the TCG's plans and the community's Linux geeks are all saying: "That's not news, we knew about this for years."
By the way, is there a way to somehow cut down on OOo RAM usage? I have an iBook with 256 megs of RAM (emergency purchase after emergency purchase leaves me perpetually short sixty bucks to put in a 512M module) and rely on NeoOffice/J to do office-y stuff. Needless to say, using the thing feels like, to paraphrase the game "Psychonauts", molasses going up a hill in january. With crutches.
2. This one requires that either all NICs can be used with a common driver or that all operating systems come with drivers for each and every NIC available. The former might actually be a good idea.
5. Installing a common device driver under Windows: Find and download the driver, uninstall the previous version, start the driver's installation, click through the wizard, reboot.
Installing a common device driver under Gentoo Linux: emerge driver. SUSE: Start YaST, select the driver, click a button. Similar for other distros. If it has to be compiled into the kernel the distro's default kernel will most likely already have it.
For some reason I see installing software under Windows as needlessly complicated since I have switched, especially since Gentoo.
Seriously, isn't a server called Azgalor the very last place to pick on strange names? Come on, Azgalor! That sounds like the last name of a Bond girl! I would kick off any player whose name doesn't violate the naming conventions (although I have to admit, CmdrTaco would still have to change his name for lack of innuendo).
Ah. Using 8-bit mode apparently works. Yet another mystery solved. And today's lesson is: Don't use ultra-super-flashy-high-quality mode just because your program supports using it with new files.
Actually, no. Maybe Photoshop does it radically different from everyone else or only supports filters in certain color modes or something, but for some reason the menu simply does nothing (Photoshop CS/OS X). I know, that's what TFM is for, but most programs are easy enough to understand that I can use them without a manual - the fact that Photoshop is different might be a hint that the interface is different from most other programs - even more so than the GIMP. Well, it's not like it's my Photoshop anyway, I just happen to use it occasionally. I'm happy with the GIMP (although I'd be happier if it had a Carbon frontend. X on OS X is ugly).
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Maybe we can put them into an isolated chamber, connect the chamber to a particle accelerator and thus construct a bogon cannon. Who needs a messy EMP when you can screw your enemies' equipment with a focused bogon ray?
Great idea. 2027 we'll see announcements that a) Singularity will use Hurd as a foundation to build upon and b) Hurd will use Singularity as a foundation to build upon.
They added the Sun after the office block was built? Now that's one old office block!
Note that you don't register your apps with OS X, which I like. Most apps should not need to access system configuration files so there's no need for them to mess with the system in any way. So why tell the system you're there? There's only a few apps that would profit from this (the ones that actually extend the system, like kernel hacks), everywhere else it's just useless data.
/ Apps)
/home/user/Apps/Gonkulator.app/Contents/Linux/gonk ulator .app extension and scans them for executables - probably using an extended Info.plist)
Instead of giving Linux the same user-hostile installation routine as Windows (Apps scatter their stuff all over the system, which of course makes an uninstallation routine necessary) I'd like them to adopt a shell-friendly version of Apple's Application Bundles. I'm thinking of something like this:
~ $ tar -xjf Gonkulator.app.tar.bz2
~ $ which gonkulator
which: no gonkulator in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/home/user
~ $ mv Gonkulator.app ~/Apps
~ $ which gonkulator
(The App Bundle handler recognizes folders with the
I'm sorry to break this to you, but you're not Netcraft.
I'm referring to a promotional video of F.E.A.R. (IIRC it was from some gaming magazine). The game looked mostly nice but in one scene I saw huge smoke clouds that were cut in half by the floor. Butt-ugly. Quake 3 looked good to me, but newer games don't because the graphics are so damn inconsitent. Oh well, at least it makes it easier for me to keep from booting into Windows.
See, if Xen was already running inside vanilla Linux you could have just killalled them.
But then a bitmap smoke puff clips through a wall and the game still looks like ass. Seriously, with all that focus on graphics you'd expect that they'd use volumetric effects everywhere by now. Until they do, games will not get any better graphics-wise than Quake 3 did. (Yes, I prefer consistent graphics over eye-candy. If you go out of your way to create an immersive game don't destroy immersion by using nonvolumetric smoke puffs. Or at least make sure that they never ever touch anything else.)
Yeah, the day that happens is the day Microsoft puts symlinks into NTFS.
I've heard they are here to protect us from the terrible secret of space. Does space have a terrible power? And will shoving or pushing protect us from the terrible secret of space?
That's okay, I can't stand Phil Collins anyway.
1.) Create Earth
2.) See that it is good
3.) Create life using evolution
4.) Laugh your ass off watching the humans argue over whether you created them or they came into being through evolution
5.) ?????
6.) Profit!
According to the German Wikipedia article the strongest beer is an American beer ("Barley Johns Rosies Ale") with 28% alcohol (but you call anything above 4.5% malt liquor - which applies to most German beers). Also, I know that monks brewed some fairly strong beer which they consumed during lent.
;)
And yes, I should have written "99%". But you can interpret my figure as 90% water and 10% normal beer, which approximates what I meant, although it might only be 90% accurate.
Cologne and D'dorf sell their beer in 0.2 glasses, Bavaria usually sells theirs in 1 liter glasses ("Maß") or even bigger, everyone else is somewhere in between. Over here (near Bremen) you usually get a small pilsener (0.2l), a large pilsener (0.4l) or a wheat beer (0.5l). Note that Kölsch (the beer you get in Cologne) is exceptionally expensive. I don't know about Alt (the D'dorfian beer).
If you prefer stuff with 90% water (i.e. the stereotypical American beer) and happen to end up in Cologne, try Kölsch. It's the most watery beer Germany has to offer and it's made from liquid gold. At least the price seems to indicate that...
(Note: The inhabitants of Cologne will tell you that Kölsch is the world's best beer. As someone who hates the taste of beer I can certainly vouch for that.)
Yeah, but I say they're still going to release prematurely and leave the recipients somewhat dissatisfied.
I started the transition to Linux after I first heard about what Microsoft hat planned for Longhorn. I was concerned about my privacy when XP wanted to phone home, but when I read about what the TCPA (yes, that was before they renamed themselves) had planned I decided that I'd rather stop being a casual gamer than sick with Windows.
The funny thing is that just now a community I'm in is discussing this very thing - and after the other users heard that even the monitors and speakers are supposed to have encryption most decided that they'd use Linux or OS X rather than Vista as their main OS. The only ones who are sticking with windows are doing so because they use software that's Win-only. It's weird; most users are really surprised by the TCG's plans and the community's Linux geeks are all saying: "That's not news, we knew about this for years."
By the way, is there a way to somehow cut down on OOo RAM usage? I have an iBook with 256 megs of RAM (emergency purchase after emergency purchase leaves me perpetually short sixty bucks to put in a 512M module) and rely on NeoOffice/J to do office-y stuff. Needless to say, using the thing feels like, to paraphrase the game "Psychonauts", molasses going up a hill in january. With crutches.
2. This one requires that either all NICs can be used with a common driver or that all operating systems come with drivers for each and every NIC available. The former might actually be a good idea.
5. Installing a common device driver under Windows: Find and download the driver, uninstall the previous version, start the driver's installation, click through the wizard, reboot.
Installing a common device driver under Gentoo Linux: emerge driver. SUSE: Start YaST, select the driver, click a button. Similar for other distros. If it has to be compiled into the kernel the distro's default kernel will most likely already have it.
For some reason I see installing software under Windows as needlessly complicated since I have switched, especially since Gentoo.
My RSS feed doesn't have icons, you insensitive clod!
...I have just trolled CmdrTaco with an overused /. meme. My life is complete.
Seriously, isn't a server called Azgalor the very last place to pick on strange names? Come on, Azgalor! That sounds like the last name of a Bond girl! I would kick off any player whose name doesn't violate the naming conventions (although I have to admit, CmdrTaco would still have to change his name for lack of innuendo).
That's not uncommon. Cynical sarcasm is bound to create misunderstandings in an anonymous environment, but I love it too much to stop using it...
Truth is (D), I didn't bother to RTFM and only found out that most filters were deactivated in my color mode when your sibling post pointed it out.
Ah. Using 8-bit mode apparently works. Yet another mystery solved. And today's lesson is: Don't use ultra-super-flashy-high-quality mode just because your program supports using it with new files.
Actually, no. Maybe Photoshop does it radically different from everyone else or only supports filters in certain color modes or something, but for some reason the menu simply does nothing (Photoshop CS/OS X). I know, that's what TFM is for, but most programs are easy enough to understand that I can use them without a manual - the fact that Photoshop is different might be a hint that the interface is different from most other programs - even more so than the GIMP. Well, it's not like it's my Photoshop anyway, I just happen to use it occasionally. I'm happy with the GIMP (although I'd be happier if it had a Carbon frontend. X on OS X is ugly).