I don't own a Mac, but I intend to. I use the hell out of my hardware, and invariably, my laptops dies to mechanical failure long before they are no longer useful. Macs typically have a much higher build quality than PCs - and that's why I want one.
I'll try OSX, and if it works, stick with it. If I don't like it, I"ll wipe the drive and put ArchLinux on it. Outside of OSX, Apple has done a killer job with their hardware.
Why would I be ashamed to admit it? I'm not a griefer, I'm a profiteer. Losing ships is not profitable.
If you go into lowsec/nullsec, you do so in an attempt to strike a balance between risk and reward. You don't go play in occupied nullsec as a 2-month-old player, do you? No, because you will quickly lose your ship and be on your merry way.
For the same reasons, I'm not going to engage a Vexor in my Rifter. It is a losing proposition. If I see, however, that you've got T1 drones out, and you're at half armor because you're fighting NPCs, I may well give it a shot. *Especially* if my alt scanned you on the way into the constellation, and I know you have a bunch of salvage in cargo and T2 weapons fitted.
Most players who play to the "end game" in Eve are either pure PvP, or support others who are pure PvP. There are no raid-like encounters, for the most part. Players battle each other for control of resources, territory, and just plain glory.
There is no "end game" PvE content in Eve. The highest level NPC encounters can be done by a group of 4 six-month-old players. By comparison, the largest ships in the game take months to manufacture, and years to fly.
The interaction in Eve are abstracted from the environment. People only form large groups in reaction to other people's large groups.
It is a very different life in Eve. Most PvP, for instance, involves one unwilling participant. I play a pirate part-time, and I can tell you I'm not going to attack someone when I don't have a very high chance of winning.
Leave it be, and the market will take care of it. The companies that are over-leveraged will be bought up at discount prices and reorganized by those who have cash in hand.
"A game without serious, multi-tiered, Player vs. Environment raiding, with many very tough encounters which reward players with exceptional loot is going to FAIL."
I agree that it is easier to set up and configure than Ubuntu if you know what you want --- I just meant that it has a much higher barrier of entry.
As far as mounting/var/log to RAM, that kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it? If you're not using the logfiles, why not just not load the log daemon? You can always manually load them if you need to debug something.
Also, there is one big caveat to Arch - the system update can and will break things. I would not recommend Arch to someone who wants a rock solid system. Its great if you want to be on the bleeding edge, though, and it is very easy to debug.
Using a free service for business isn't inherently bad, you just have to do consider the risk. It doesn't always make sense to pay for great service if you can get adequate service for free.
I was not arguing that anyone should be ejected from the country.
The issue here is not a simple issue of semantics. Ever read 1984? Newspeak? The idea there is sound - when you control language, you control thought. Our language is being twisted, and the principles the country was founded on are now wholly misunderstood.
The difference is not merely semantic - it is the difference between the rule of law, and rule by the mob.
Second, no number of people have the right to "change policy" when it comes to individual liberties. That concept is the cancer that has destroyed American government.
The US Constitution recognizes specific rights of the individual. Those rights existed before the Constitution was written, and were merely codified in the first ten amendments to it. It is not possible to take those rights away, either through the political process or at the point of a gun.
I don't have a problem with Socialism. Really, I don't. My problem is that it is far outside the boundaries of the federal government to do the things that it is doing today. The Commerce Clause has been stretched again and again, and today, you can drive a semi through it. Why growing pot on your own land is an issue of "interstate commerce" is beyond me (see, US v. Raich).
Restore the federal government to its proper place, and then feel free to enact all the social programs you want on a state level.
That's because there is a political movement in the US to restore the old definitions of the words.
In both a democracy and a republic, power is vested in the people. In a democracy, the people wield power directly, by secret ballot. In a republic, the people elect representitives, thereby exercising power indirectly.
I understand that the modern dictionary definition is not the same as it once was. The English language has lost the concept of republican government.
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Well, i'll be damned.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Web design is far more complex than webdesign. Poor webdesign is point-and-click, but to do it properly, you're going to need a text editor.
Amen. Lots of people can "do HTML" - in Dreamweaver.
Give me someone who can create clean, syntactically correct, semantic markup. That's a rare gem, indeed.
I must have missed where the Geneva Convention applied to wars between non-signatory nations.
Either that, or I missed Iraq's representative.
Javascript's security model is prefectly fine - the problem is in the implementation.
This is a horrible idea.
I suspect it would work, though.
Photoshop is a PITA to get working in Linux. I've got CS4 running in WINE, but Bridge still crashes.
I've got XP in a VirtualBox VM that I use for those programs. Its a tiny bit slower, but its not enough to make me want to switch back to Vista.
They're uncommon, but there are laptops with interchangable gfx cards. I had a Compaq Presario 1505us that went through 4 of them. :\
This is truth.
I don't own a Mac, but I intend to. I use the hell out of my hardware, and invariably, my laptops dies to mechanical failure long before they are no longer useful. Macs typically have a much higher build quality than PCs - and that's why I want one.
I'll try OSX, and if it works, stick with it. If I don't like it, I"ll wipe the drive and put ArchLinux on it. Outside of OSX, Apple has done a killer job with their hardware.
This, of course, can be done now. The first think you learn when dealing with webapp security is that you can never trust the client.
Nothing is stopping me now from loading my own Javascript (or Java, or anything else that runs in the browser) on a bank's webpage.
Gopher...
Local stations here show Safari/Win. No idea why. I saw a Chrome screen the other day, too.
Why would I be ashamed to admit it? I'm not a griefer, I'm a profiteer. Losing ships is not profitable.
If you go into lowsec/nullsec, you do so in an attempt to strike a balance between risk and reward. You don't go play in occupied nullsec as a 2-month-old player, do you? No, because you will quickly lose your ship and be on your merry way.
For the same reasons, I'm not going to engage a Vexor in my Rifter. It is a losing proposition. If I see, however, that you've got T1 drones out, and you're at half armor because you're fighting NPCs, I may well give it a shot. *Especially* if my alt scanned you on the way into the constellation, and I know you have a bunch of salvage in cargo and T2 weapons fitted.
Most players who play to the "end game" in Eve are either pure PvP, or support others who are pure PvP. There are no raid-like encounters, for the most part. Players battle each other for control of resources, territory, and just plain glory.
There is no "end game" PvE content in Eve. The highest level NPC encounters can be done by a group of 4 six-month-old players. By comparison, the largest ships in the game take months to manufacture, and years to fly.
The interaction in Eve are abstracted from the environment. People only form large groups in reaction to other people's large groups.
It is a very different life in Eve. Most PvP, for instance, involves one unwilling participant. I play a pirate part-time, and I can tell you I'm not going to attack someone when I don't have a very high chance of winning.
Greed isn't the problem there, its ignorance.
Leave it be, and the market will take care of it. The companies that are over-leveraged will be bought up at discount prices and reorganized by those who have cash in hand.
"A game without serious, multi-tiered, Player vs. Environment raiding, with many very tough encounters which reward players with exceptional loot is going to FAIL."
I diasagree.
Exhibit A: Eve Online.
I agree that it is easier to set up and configure than Ubuntu if you know what you want --- I just meant that it has a much higher barrier of entry.
As far as mounting /var/log to RAM, that kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it? If you're not using the logfiles, why not just not load the log daemon? You can always manually load them if you need to debug something.
Also, there is one big caveat to Arch - the system update can and will break things. I would not recommend Arch to someone who wants a rock solid system. Its great if you want to be on the bleeding edge, though, and it is very easy to debug.
Simple is better!
I'm planning on using ArchLinux when I get mine. They seem to have good community support, and it doesn't come with any fluff you don't need.
It is a bit more difficult to install, though.
I think you're oversimplifying.
Using a free service for business isn't inherently bad, you just have to do consider the risk. It doesn't always make sense to pay for great service if you can get adequate service for free.
Meh. It is an issue at work. My top site is my company's intranet, thank god, but everything else is marginally work-related.
I was not arguing that anyone should be ejected from the country.
The issue here is not a simple issue of semantics. Ever read 1984? Newspeak? The idea there is sound - when you control language, you control thought. Our language is being twisted, and the principles the country was founded on are now wholly misunderstood.
The difference is not merely semantic - it is the difference between the rule of law, and rule by the mob.
For one, I never said he should leave.
Second, no number of people have the right to "change policy" when it comes to individual liberties. That concept is the cancer that has destroyed American government.
The US Constitution recognizes specific rights of the individual. Those rights existed before the Constitution was written, and were merely codified in the first ten amendments to it. It is not possible to take those rights away, either through the political process or at the point of a gun.
I don't have a problem with Socialism. Really, I don't. My problem is that it is far outside the boundaries of the federal government to do the things that it is doing today. The Commerce Clause has been stretched again and again, and today, you can drive a semi through it. Why growing pot on your own land is an issue of "interstate commerce" is beyond me (see, US v. Raich).
Restore the federal government to its proper place, and then feel free to enact all the social programs you want on a state level.
That's because there is a political movement in the US to restore the old definitions of the words.
In both a democracy and a republic, power is vested in the people. In a democracy, the people wield power directly, by secret ballot. In a republic, the people elect representitives, thereby exercising power indirectly.
I understand that the modern dictionary definition is not the same as it once was. The English language has lost the concept of republican government.
Bravo.
Undemocratic, eh?
We're not a democracy. We are a republic, or at least the documents say so.
Please try to stay quiet when the adults are talking, k?