They're quite right that the physics doesn't actually need to be physically accurate - during a firefight, it just has to look vaguely right. I worry that they might have one of those systems that very occasionally does something obviously weird, but we will see.
And the feeling of destructible environments is fun. It would be fun even if it didn't serve a purpose in the game - seeing a firefight in a confined space cause decent-looking bullet holes in walls and "more crates than you can shake a rocket launcher at" falling over (and chairs, etc.) is pretty fun, and I'd like to see a game make destructible environments ubiquitous enough that they feel like an extension of that, even when they aren't being used a gimmick.
You've missed the bit where identity theft is (presumably) a more serious crime than spoofing caller ID. In countries with gun control, if you are arrested for holding up a shop and have a gun on you, you're probably getting more time for having the gun than for the robbery, making the gun probably not worth it. Also, a gun is somewhat difficult to hide if you're searched, while software to spoof caller ID could trivially be made to vanish without a trace, which further destroys the effectiveness of legal deterrents.
People who steal identities will carry on spoofing caller ID, because they already commit more serious crimes, while users of legitimate services will be inconvenienced. Still, at least the politicians are seen to do something about the problem.
It doesn't need to become "not the largest single marketplace", it only needs to become "not more than 50% of the app market". At that point, it would become more effective to use cross-platform tools to target everything else at the same time.
By restricting the use of abstraction layers, they want to make devs choose between writing their app for the iPhone or for Android, it would seem (or, of course, writing it twice).
Of course, the real choice is "write for iPhone, or write for every other platform". I hope developers are bright enough to see where this is going.
But don't get me wrong, The N900 is not perfect. It is a new device with a new OS and some of the applications reflect that. The E-Mail client, for example, is a piece of crap without proper IMAP support and spell checking.
I've not had a chance to use one yet, but if it's as open as I've heard, talking about "the" email client doesn't make a great deal of sense. Won't some hackers just write/port a nice email client for it? Or are unofficial add-ons less integrated than Nokia stuff?
However, as things stand you have to download the engine, then do a bit of reading, go to the source repositories and download graphics, sound and music separately
Or you could just use a package manager like everybody else. If your distro is consistently slow to package things, consider another distro*. It would seem that Gentoo has had it since 2004.
This is not always the case in physics. For example, the differences between the predictions of relativity and Newtonian mechanics are really very insignificant in most cases, but accurate measurement can still tell you which is correct (relativity has agreed with some very, very accurate measurements).
It doesn't say whether they revised their estimate due to new data or due to finding a mistake, but the latter would be entirely understandable: humans tend to have very little day-to-day experience of exotic matter on which to base a reality check.
Don't you need a password to boot single user mode with Linux?
Not with most distro's default grub config, which lets you edit the kernel parameters before boot. You can just add "init=/bin/sh", causing it to drop you to a shell instead of running init. From there, it's trivial to do whichever of init's tasks you need (remount the disk read-write, start networking, etc.), and then mess with the system as you see fit.
I presume the reason distros don't fix this is that there is no real security against somebody with physical access anyway, and it is tremendously useful for fixing all kinds of problems.
Also, it seems inevitable that the actual data will not be encrypted. For some reason, people who claim to make secure USB sticks never, ever use real encryption on them.
Being a non-genetic thing that is basically heritable and effects performance in intelligence tests*, culture has to be a confounding variable in any attempt to find genetic components of intelligence by comparing people from different cultures. Anyway, my point was that until intelligence and race are defined (which I somewhat doubt they can be), any such research is no better than opinion.
* This avoids debating what "intelligence" is, and is not really controversial due to inevitable cultural biases in tests.
Hah, I was wondering why the prominent screenshot on the TextMaker for Linux page was taken in Windows Vista.
Also, anybody saying that using system colours counts as KDE or Gnome "integration" needs to be taken out and shot. Even OO.o is integrated better than that.
Try it for any really big site (I mean Facebook big not Slashdot big). It's been like that for years. Just a stupid failure in how whois works. Can somebody explain how it works?
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I don't think anyone here thinks he's in any trouble.
They're quite right that the physics doesn't actually need to be physically accurate - during a firefight, it just has to look vaguely right. I worry that they might have one of those systems that very occasionally does something obviously weird, but we will see.
And the feeling of destructible environments is fun. It would be fun even if it didn't serve a purpose in the game - seeing a firefight in a confined space cause decent-looking bullet holes in walls and "more crates than you can shake a rocket launcher at" falling over (and chairs, etc.) is pretty fun, and I'd like to see a game make destructible environments ubiquitous enough that they feel like an extension of that, even when they aren't being used a gimmick.
You've missed the bit where identity theft is (presumably) a more serious crime than spoofing caller ID. In countries with gun control, if you are arrested for holding up a shop and have a gun on you, you're probably getting more time for having the gun than for the robbery, making the gun probably not worth it. Also, a gun is somewhat difficult to hide if you're searched, while software to spoof caller ID could trivially be made to vanish without a trace, which further destroys the effectiveness of legal deterrents.
People who steal identities will carry on spoofing caller ID, because they already commit more serious crimes, while users of legitimate services will be inconvenienced. Still, at least the politicians are seen to do something about the problem.
of formatting annoys me !
It doesn't need to become "not the largest single marketplace", it only needs to become "not more than 50% of the app market". At that point, it would become more effective to use cross-platform tools to target everything else at the same time.
By restricting the use of abstraction layers, they want to make devs choose between writing their app for the iPhone or for Android, it would seem (or, of course, writing it twice).
Of course, the real choice is "write for iPhone, or write for every other platform". I hope developers are bright enough to see where this is going.
That implies that you haven't noticed that the USA is mostly empty...
I've not had a chance to use one yet, but if it's as open as I've heard, talking about "the" email client doesn't make a great deal of sense. Won't some hackers just write/port a nice email client for it? Or are unofficial add-ons less integrated than Nokia stuff?
The units in the summary are meaningless and uninteresting to almost everybody, and make science geeks twitchy. I propose several alternatives.
For physicists and engineers:
8 hours = 28800 s
W=PT
=4e6 W * 28800 s
=115.2 GJ
For people who measure energy in electricity bills: 3200 kW h
For people who like impressive comparisons: About 2 M-29 Davy Crocketts.
No, I am!
Or you could just use a package manager like everybody else. If your distro is consistently slow to package things, consider another distro*. It would seem that Gentoo has had it since 2004.
This is not always the case in physics. For example, the differences between the predictions of relativity and Newtonian mechanics are really very insignificant in most cases, but accurate measurement can still tell you which is correct (relativity has agreed with some very, very accurate measurements).
It doesn't say whether they revised their estimate due to new data or due to finding a mistake, but the latter would be entirely understandable: humans tend to have very little day-to-day experience of exotic matter on which to base a reality check.
I strongly recommend loading that website with some sort of adblocker enabled.
Then refreshing it a few hundred times. All of you.
Not with most distro's default grub config, which lets you edit the kernel parameters before boot. You can just add "init=/bin/sh", causing it to drop you to a shell instead of running init. From there, it's trivial to do whichever of init's tasks you need (remount the disk read-write, start networking, etc.), and then mess with the system as you see fit.
I presume the reason distros don't fix this is that there is no real security against somebody with physical access anyway, and it is tremendously useful for fixing all kinds of problems.
Thank you!
Also, it seems inevitable that the actual data will not be encrypted. For some reason, people who claim to make secure USB sticks never, ever use real encryption on them.
Being a non-genetic thing that is basically heritable and effects performance in intelligence tests*, culture has to be a confounding variable in any attempt to find genetic components of intelligence by comparing people from different cultures. Anyway, my point was that until intelligence and race are defined (which I somewhat doubt they can be), any such research is no better than opinion.
* This avoids debating what "intelligence" is, and is not really controversial due to inevitable cultural biases in tests.
"Intelligence" is a poorly-defined concept and it is very hard to devise a test which gives fair results regardless of the culture of the subject.
In case you haven't noticed, culture is a pretty significant confounding variable for "race" (which is also a poorly-defined concept).
I just got called boring by "ObsessiveMathsFreak".
I love Slashdot.
I would post a lengthy and reasoned response here, but it's just gonna boil down to the following:
No, because the existing IP system is fucked and everybody knows it.
Hah, I was wondering why the prominent screenshot on the TextMaker for Linux page was taken in Windows Vista.
Also, anybody saying that using system colours counts as KDE or Gnome "integration" needs to be taken out and shot. Even OO.o is integrated better than that.
Very true.
Thankfully, they seem to have noticed, and are actually cooperating with the developers of open-source, 3D accelerated drivers for their hardware.
h|tler> HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M 13 BY LOOKING AT WHAT I'M WRITEING?
If you click, you get more question marks... Damn lameness filter.
Try it for any really big site (I mean Facebook big not Slashdot big). It's been like that for years. Just a stupid failure in how whois works. Can somebody explain how it works?
What the fuck has happened to Slashdot?