Interesting, how SCO imagines the software would go public domain. If the current license on software is somehow invalidated, the fallback case is the "default license" which definitely is NOT public domain, but straight opposite, full copyright, leaving anyone but the author (and possibly FBI etc) without any rights to do anything with given work whatsoever. Only then the authors could re-license their works under some other less restrictive license (like EULA).
So in most lucky case, SCO would get full rights to the kernel version 1.0 and so 2.6 as a shared-copyright derivative work (containing contributions by many others than SCO) is NOT wholly a property of SCO, no matter how they twist it so they may forbid distribution of it, but they aren't allowed to sell it. (Think illegal fanart, the studio can forbid the author to publish it or even seek compensation but they can't just take and sell/distribute it. Despite being illegal by itself, it's still protected by copyright!)
And of course after such action, authors relicense their software on new terms: Use freely, like GPL, etc, but you lose all the right to use it if you ever do any business with SCO. SCO is left with the kernel and no userspace software.
What about "redundant"? One "it's a dupe" top-level post and discussion attached to it is enough. This article got about 15 or so "it's a dupe" posts. THESE are really annoying dupes!
When it's up in the air, there's little risk, turbulences causing rotation as opposed to movement etc, no biggie. But if it's still on the ground, with the supports already removed, apply constant force over whole length, while only the base is supported, and it will tip over. Apply enough force to the upper part while not pushing the bottom part (winds 30m over the ground level are WAY stronger than just above the ground!) and it won't fly vertically up, it will just hit the ground. There's only so much of tilt the thrusters and steering fins can correct (expecially little at low speeds just after start). Anything above will make it crash.
Well, you're still running Linux 2. For how long now? Simply you release new major version if the changes are far from previous revision. But if in course of 800 tiny revisions you went from a tiny mailer to suite of office apps, people still expect you to release TinyMailer 1.0.801 and not MegaOffice 2.0 if the changes introduced with last update are just some GUI tweaks. Seems dual-core is enough of a leap to abandon old naming scheme.
AMD went the smart way with doubling marketing names. Athlons, Durons/Semprons - these make it clear what family of CPU it is. Then stuff like Palomino, Hammer, Thoroughbreed and such allowing for more precise and recognisable naming convention.
Don't worry. To ordinary plebs, you got an Intel inside, and here's your Pentium on that CD, with product key and user manual. Microsoft Pentium Vista, successor to Windows.
"I got a Harley and a Porsche." Everyone understands. "I have 944 and 883". Wha? What about "Type 1"? Everyone knows VW Beetle. Nobody knows VW Type 1. But it's the same car... These products bought their fame DESPITE horrible brand names, not THANKS to them.
"but AMD naming is a much better - AMD Duron just sounds better than Intel Pentium."
and imagine all the equestrian freaks killing to get a Palomino CPU and then really soon upgrading to Thoroughbred:) I still pity myself over my Sempron. I WANT A PALOMINO!
I heard a different story. They developed the 486 successor and told it to display the results of 486+100. It displayed 585.99999999 and they decided it's not a good CPU name, so instead they called it Pentium.
NOT 50ms. 200ms okay. 100ms barely. 50ms no. I know I can seek a picture in a directory filled with JPEGs by holding down space in IrfanView (resulting in a blur of pictures showing up in fullscreen preview, about 4-6 a second) and I find it easily (though always needing to go back, sometimes 10 or so pics, the signal to release space bar travels way slower to my hand than "match" signal from visual input). 24FPS is the minimum animation speed for people not to see separate frames. That's 40ms. At 50ms (20FPS) you catch basic glimpses of the frames but only the strongest most empacized "MY SCHWEEET BLOGGIE" pink may get through and result in any kind of reaction. Most of content with more ballanced color scheme will pass as non-distinct blur.
Theoretically possible solution: 100ms for the signal to get to the cortex. Discard that, you don't "see" yet. Then while you try to understand it, within next 200ms, simultaneously as the image is being analysed the "first impression" processing takes place, and before you even know what you see, you have a certain feeling towards it.
Most probable solution: Someone put 'ms' where 's' should go.
Google Under Fire For Patent Infringement - bad news. Microsoft Under Fire For Patent Infringement - good news. Sun Under Fire For Patent Infringement - depends on wind direction and world series basketball results. Do we love or hate Toyota Prius?
Yeah. "Why care about the Nature? It will be solved eventually, so no harm done if I dump the sewage to the river and make extra 5% income on the savings." Telling "It will work out in the future, somehow" is the best motivation-killer.
I just downloaded and installed it. I need it to read/extract content of orders from customers - they come to a different mailbox I don't have access to, and I get them as.eml files. Starts ok. Loads.eml files okay. But if I want to start it by doubleclicking an.eml file, it shows "d is not a registered protocol". Huh?
Horrible. First off, the gfx is icky. I mean, how many polygons can you use to create a HTML tag in a fixed size font? Then, there's LOTS of them. Mostly everything is HTML tags and you never know which ones are just the background and which ones are hostile and aggressive. I found a relatively calm place in a pool of CSS goo, but then fighting the META waving their long CONTENT at me from one direction and mass-shooting crowds of BR, TD, TR and such incoming from the BODY side was really bad. And when I thought I had the METAs in check and the flood of BR and other nastiness from BODY stopped, I got crunched by TITLE from behind. Respawn and swimming to the shore of TEXTAREA while artillery of LI in UL shoot their bullets at me.
Nope. Heard of lucid dreams? They are not a "projection back". You are able to communicate with the outside world (by eyeball movement) with the outside world in realtime.
It's likely though that you just hear some radio somewhere (neighbour?) playing given piece, then wake up and switch your radio on, to hear just the same piece. Your sense of hearing works pretty well in your sleep.
From which some you can't sell because they are way too expensive, and making the rest is well within your reach. Don't confuse 'expensive' and 'valuable'. Ebony armour is crap, even though you could buy whole east side of Balmora for a single set. Same with these gems. None of them allows for CE enchant, you can't use/sell any at a guild alchemist (stolen wares!) and despite whoopin' price they are really quite crappy stuff. You can't make REALLY strong magic items with them. Sure, handy stuff: Mark, Recall, temporary Levitate, maybe some Detects, Divine, Almsivi intervention, putting this stuff on small handy items is valuable and can be achieved with most of these gems. But these items won't be unballancing, they will be just right. And using it on weapons is equally weak: Fire Damage 100 5ft radius appears to be great against guars, cliff racers and maybe a Kagouti. And with some luck against rogues, though these with bows will still give you shit. But try one daedric ruins with such a sword, halfway you'll find yourself without charges, Fire Atronachs will fry your ass, Hungers and Golden Saints will laugh in your face, Daedroths will fry you with ranged spells, etc, etc, etc. Of course around level 10 things start to drastically change. Around level 15 you're almost invincible. But up to level 5-7 you'll have your ass kicked no matter what equipment you have. With exception of kickass CE items like permanent restore health - but likely if you start with single aim in mind: Build a ring of CE Restore Health - before you gather all the components to build it, you will be like level 8 or so.
Well, I meant a plain "physical" daedric longbow. AFAIK there's one in the game and two (one on the wall, one in shopkeeper's inventory) in the Archery mod. It doesn't break that fast and carrying a hammer around isn't that big of a deal. Of course permanent enchantment of this kind is pretty cool, although I wouldn't waste a ring slot (120 enchant points) for that as it takes some 20 enchant points at most. Unless you do cool stuff with the rest, say, fortify ranged weapons skill:)
Anyway, we're talking about beginning phase of the game. To get such a ring you'd have 1) A ring. No problem, don't finish the tax collector quest... or use one of cheaper rings, they will suffice. 2) A Great Soul Gem. Pretty hard to find. If you're lucky you'll likely steal one somewhere. 3) A Golden Saint soul. 3a) Soultrap. Not all that cheap as scroll, not all that easy as spell (for a beginner), at least for reasonable time. Possibly a few, Golden Saints have high "reflect", you end up soultrapped instead... 3b) Either a dangerous trip to some ruins and finding one, or a Summon Golden Saint scroll (500 gp) 3c) Killing the Golden Saint while under "soultrap". Damn fucking hard below, say, 6th-7th level. Sure enough potions and you can kill -anything- (unless it kills you with one hit), but you still need to do it while the spell works. Of course nothing enough booze won't fix, but booze is expensive too. 4) Bound Bow spell. No idea who sells these, if you don't use a third-party solution, looking for it would be an interesting challenge by itself. My bet it you'd find it at some alchemist's in Vos, just across the map. 5) A friendly (cheaper!) enchanter with a shop (so you can get your gold back by selling some daedric junk). Well, easy or at least possible. 6) Shitloads of money. Like a month at the Creeper selling him several pieces of daedric equipment. Good luck getting that on lv 1-4.
So, yes. Not impossible for a beginning player. But the level of difficulty of this undertaking would be about 50% of the difficulty of the main quest itself... And the reward (the ring) would be most likely more valuable than the shitty ring you get for finishing the main quest, thankyouverymuch:)
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Interesting, how SCO imagines the software would go public domain.
If the current license on software is somehow invalidated, the fallback case is the "default license" which definitely is NOT public domain, but straight opposite, full copyright, leaving anyone but the author (and possibly FBI etc) without any rights to do anything with given work whatsoever. Only then the authors could re-license their works under some other less restrictive license (like EULA).
So in most lucky case, SCO would get full rights to the kernel version 1.0 and so 2.6 as a shared-copyright derivative work (containing contributions by many others than SCO) is NOT wholly a property of SCO, no matter how they twist it so they may forbid distribution of it, but they aren't allowed to sell it. (Think illegal fanart, the studio can forbid the author to publish it or even seek compensation but they can't just take and sell/distribute it. Despite being illegal by itself, it's still protected by copyright!)
And of course after such action, authors relicense their software on new terms: Use freely, like GPL, etc, but you lose all the right to use it if you ever do any business with SCO. SCO is left with the kernel and no userspace software.
I wonder what kind of idiots works at SCO.
think how terribly disgusting cheese is. That stuff is MADE OF bacteria. And sometimes purposedly covered with fungi.
What about "redundant"?
One "it's a dupe" top-level post and discussion attached to it is enough. This article got about 15 or so "it's a dupe" posts. THESE are really annoying dupes!
When it's up in the air, there's little risk, turbulences causing rotation as opposed to movement etc, no biggie. But if it's still on the ground, with the supports already removed, apply constant force over whole length, while only the base is supported, and it will tip over. Apply enough force to the upper part while not pushing the bottom part (winds 30m over the ground level are WAY stronger than just above the ground!) and it won't fly vertically up, it will just hit the ground. There's only so much of tilt the thrusters and steering fins can correct (expecially little at low speeds just after start). Anything above will make it crash.
Well, you're still running Linux 2. For how long now? Simply you release new major version if the changes are far from previous revision. But if in course of 800 tiny revisions you went from a tiny mailer to suite of office apps, people still expect you to release TinyMailer 1.0.801 and not MegaOffice 2.0 if the changes introduced with last update are just some GUI tweaks.
Seems dual-core is enough of a leap to abandon old naming scheme.
AMD went the smart way with doubling marketing names. Athlons, Durons/Semprons - these make it clear what family of CPU it is. Then stuff like Palomino, Hammer, Thoroughbreed and such allowing for more precise and recognisable naming convention.
Don't worry. To ordinary plebs, you got an Intel inside, and here's your Pentium on that CD, with product key and user manual. Microsoft Pentium Vista, successor to Windows.
"I got a Harley and a Porsche." Everyone understands.
"I have 944 and 883". Wha?
What about "Type 1"? Everyone knows VW Beetle. Nobody knows VW Type 1. But it's the same car...
These products bought their fame DESPITE horrible brand names, not THANKS to them.
"but AMD naming is a much better - AMD Duron just sounds better than Intel Pentium."
:)
and imagine all the equestrian freaks killing to get a Palomino CPU and then really soon upgrading to Thoroughbred
I still pity myself over my Sempron. I WANT A PALOMINO!
I heard a different story. They developed the 486 successor and told it to display the results of 486+100.
It displayed 585.99999999 and they decided it's not a good CPU name, so instead they called it Pentium.
NOT 50ms.
200ms okay. 100ms barely. 50ms no.
I know I can seek a picture in a directory filled with JPEGs by holding down space in IrfanView (resulting in a blur of pictures showing up in fullscreen preview, about 4-6 a second) and I find it easily (though always needing to go back, sometimes 10 or so pics, the signal to release space bar travels way slower to my hand than "match" signal from visual input).
24FPS is the minimum animation speed for people not to see separate frames. That's 40ms. At 50ms (20FPS) you catch basic glimpses of the frames but only the strongest most empacized "MY SCHWEEET BLOGGIE" pink may get through and result in any kind of reaction. Most of content with more ballanced color scheme will pass as non-distinct blur.
Theoretically possible solution:
100ms for the signal to get to the cortex. Discard that, you don't "see" yet. Then while you try to understand it, within next 200ms, simultaneously as the image is being analysed the "first impression" processing takes place, and before you even know what you see, you have a certain feeling towards it.
Most probable solution:
Someone put 'ms' where 's' should go.
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 13 15:55 nothing
>glasses color="black"<
Sir, you're in violation of the Patriot act. Please follow us to the car.
>/glasses<
Google Under Fire For Patent Infringement - bad news.
Microsoft Under Fire For Patent Infringement - good news.
Sun Under Fire For Patent Infringement - depends on wind direction and world series basketball results.
Do we love or hate Toyota Prius?
We didnt't have Google with container cluster nodes back then. :D
Yeah. "Why care about the Nature? It will be solved eventually, so no harm done if I dump the sewage to the river and make extra 5% income on the savings."
Telling "It will work out in the future, somehow" is the best motivation-killer.
I just downloaded and installed it. I need it to read/extract content of orders from customers - they come to a different mailbox I don't have access to, and I get them as .eml files. .eml files okay. But if I want to start it by doubleclicking an .eml file, it shows "d is not a registered protocol". Huh?
Starts ok. Loads
Horrible.
First off, the gfx is icky. I mean, how many polygons can you use to create a HTML tag in a fixed size font?
Then, there's LOTS of them. Mostly everything is HTML tags and you never know which ones are just the background and which ones are hostile and aggressive. I found a relatively calm place in a pool of CSS goo, but then fighting the META waving their long CONTENT at me from one direction and mass-shooting crowds of BR, TD, TR and such incoming from the BODY side was really bad. And when I thought I had the METAs in check and the flood of BR and other nastiness from BODY stopped, I got crunched by TITLE from behind. Respawn and swimming to the shore of TEXTAREA while artillery of LI in UL shoot their bullets at me.
What about shooting and dodging HTML tags after a full-night webpage writing followed by a hour of Q3A?
Nope. Heard of lucid dreams? They are not a "projection back". You are able to communicate with the outside world (by eyeball movement) with the outside world in realtime.
It's likely though that you just hear some radio somewhere (neighbour?) playing given piece, then wake up and switch your radio on, to hear just the same piece. Your sense of hearing works pretty well in your sleep.
There's a "little" difference between a solar system and a galaxy.
From which some you can't sell because they are way too expensive, and making the rest is well within your reach. Don't confuse 'expensive' and 'valuable'. Ebony armour is crap, even though you could buy whole east side of Balmora for a single set. Same with these gems. None of them allows for CE enchant, you can't use/sell any at a guild alchemist (stolen wares!) and despite whoopin' price they are really quite crappy stuff. You can't make REALLY strong magic items with them.
Sure, handy stuff: Mark, Recall, temporary Levitate, maybe some Detects, Divine, Almsivi intervention, putting this stuff on small handy items is valuable and can be achieved with most of these gems. But these items won't be unballancing, they will be just right. And using it on weapons is equally weak: Fire Damage 100 5ft radius appears to be great against guars, cliff racers and maybe a Kagouti. And with some luck against rogues, though these with bows will still give you shit. But try one daedric ruins with such a sword, halfway you'll find yourself without charges, Fire Atronachs will fry your ass, Hungers and Golden Saints will laugh in your face, Daedroths will fry you with ranged spells, etc, etc, etc. Of course around level 10 things start to drastically change. Around level 15 you're almost invincible. But up to level 5-7 you'll have your ass kicked no matter what equipment you have. With exception of kickass CE items like permanent restore health - but likely if you start with single aim in mind: Build a ring of CE Restore Health - before you gather all the components to build it, you will be like level 8 or so.
Well, I meant a plain "physical" daedric longbow. AFAIK there's one in the game and two (one on the wall, one in shopkeeper's inventory) in the Archery mod. It doesn't break that fast and carrying a hammer around isn't that big of a deal. Of course permanent enchantment of this kind is pretty cool, although I wouldn't waste a ring slot (120 enchant points) for that as it takes some 20 enchant points at most. Unless you do cool stuff with the rest, say, fortify ranged weapons skill :)
:)
Anyway, we're talking about beginning phase of the game. To get such a ring you'd have
1) A ring. No problem, don't finish the tax collector quest... or use one of cheaper rings, they will suffice.
2) A Great Soul Gem. Pretty hard to find. If you're lucky you'll likely steal one somewhere.
3) A Golden Saint soul.
3a) Soultrap. Not all that cheap as scroll, not all that easy as spell (for a beginner), at least for reasonable time. Possibly a few, Golden Saints have high "reflect", you end up soultrapped instead...
3b) Either a dangerous trip to some ruins and finding one, or a Summon Golden Saint scroll (500 gp)
3c) Killing the Golden Saint while under "soultrap". Damn fucking hard below, say, 6th-7th level. Sure enough potions and you can kill -anything- (unless it kills you with one hit), but you still need to do it while the spell works. Of course nothing enough booze won't fix, but booze is expensive too.
4) Bound Bow spell. No idea who sells these, if you don't use a third-party solution, looking for it would be an interesting challenge by itself. My bet it you'd find it at some alchemist's in Vos, just across the map.
5) A friendly (cheaper!) enchanter with a shop (so you can get your gold back by selling some daedric junk). Well, easy or at least possible.
6) Shitloads of money. Like a month at the Creeper selling him several pieces of daedric equipment. Good luck getting that on lv 1-4.
So, yes. Not impossible for a beginning player. But the level of difficulty of this undertaking would be about 50% of the difficulty of the main quest itself... And the reward (the ring) would be most likely more valuable than the shitty ring you get for finishing the main quest, thankyouverymuch
They look just like railgun blasts in the far end of the arena. We should be pretty good at spotting them.
BBC lies.
Though no-one was injured, the house and everything in it was destroyed.
Don't tell me the mouse on fire didn't suffer any burns.