Congrats: Wine must finally be getting somewhere! (It's been long enough)
Wine has been getting somewhere for a long time, the reason DirectX was so stagnant for so long was because Transgaming promised to commit their DirectX code. The community is not interested in duplicating work unless it's necessary to make things better, so everyone was really upset when the promised DirectX code disappeared into thin air.
Democracy is a grand experiment. It seems an open question as to whether it works. But weirdly, though Bush and his cohorts speak about bringing Democracy to the world, they don't seem to believe in it.
The problem is that our government is not supposed to be a democracy. The founders were fully aware of the problems associated with mob rule. As evidence I put forth Benjamin Franklin's famous quote when he was queried on the form of government we would have:
"A Republic, if you can keep it." *
We have failed to keep our republic and have degenerated into a state of democracy, the next step (if you watch history) is fascism.
The problem is that the US immigration & visa policy is pretty forbidding.
The National Academies recommends reducing this problem (among a host of others) in the report "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future" (purchase link: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html). Yes, it's 512 pages - there's an executive summary that is a much more manageable 13 pages.
I understand based on market share vs. time to develop why Blizzard doesn't have a linux client, but considering that they've got an OSX client I can't imagine the hurdles for porting are that high.
Especially since there was supposedly a Linux client on the Beta CD.
While occupational regulations are complex and depend on what type of radiation, they are the equivalent of 5 rem/year.
Either your information is out of date or is for a specific state (in which case it is trumped by the federal limit). The federal limit is 100 mrem (1 mSev) per year (not the actual legislation but references the federal limit, I believe the number was last changed in 1998). If you know anything about radiation then you know that the federally imposed limit is absolutely ridiculous, it is equivalent to approximately how much radiation you are exposed to by sleeping with your significant other over the course of a year.
As well, I threw a BR tag or two before that particular line, and put the email address towards the start of the sentence, to avoid the problem of half of it appearing on a second line.
You could put the images inside a table, for that matter you could just put a single character of your email address in each table cell and set the table to be border-less (and have no padding or spacing).
...we are effectively loosing.
This rapid walk away from democracy in the name of democracy is frightning.
Maybe because we weren't supposed to have a democracy in the first place, but a democratic republic. Ben Franklin was right to be concerned that we could keep our republic, especially since many people these days don't even realize that our government was supposed to be a republic and not a democracy. Our founding fathers were fully aware of the problems associated with pure democracy and tried to build in protections to the system, protections that have been slowly stripped away over time and have led us to our current state where the entire populace can be ruled through fear.
I don't know how legal this would all be considering there was not initial contract or bid for services... but just the same: fuckin' ballsy response guys... I love it! I'm a little jealous though, as I'd love to bill a client for over a million someday... well, before a million isn't worth anything.
They're not actually billing them, if you read the site it says they're trying to make Universal aware of all the time and energy people have put into promoting Serenity/Firefly* without expecting any monetary return.
* Serenity and Firefly are the intellectual property of "Universal Studios Licensing, LLLP";)
Yes, it's called the thermic effect of food or TEF and can be simplified to the following: TEF = total kcals consumed x 10% which of course means that 10% of anything you consume *might* be burned off leaving you with net positive calories. Think of it this way.... organisms eat to survive, not to lose weight.
From reading the article it actually looks a little scarrier than "has practically no calories", it looks like the drink is a drug cocktail designed to trick your body into working harder when it doesn't need to. That might be a good thing, that might be a bad thing. I tend to think of magic drug cocktails more toward the "bad thing" end of the spectrum since we don't know what will happen in the long run.
Why they went to the trouble of a new installer and don't create a msi installer for Windows I don't know.
Making proper MSI packages, at least with Microsoft's Orca tool, is a pain in the butt. Nullsoft installers are much easier to create and much easier to deploy as silent installations on large networks, unless of course the tool you're using doesn't support executables and only supports MSI packages.
"You have offended my operating system of choice, prepare to die..."
When he grows a sixth finger on his right hand and kills your father then we'll start paying attention, get used to people offending your OS. People offend mine and yours and everyone else's, it's just one of those things in life.
Actually, I think the reason the big news outlets don't do this is because they would lose access to the public figures, who would cut them off.
How do you propose that they succeed at that? Seems to me like the news media does a pretty good job at getting access to the kind of information it needs even when the bigshots HAVE cut themselves off. I think there's actually more incentive for people to blab when the person is "cut off", the news media suddenly becomes willing to pay for the information rather than take spoon-fed BS and feed it straight back to the public.
If I had been able to actually download the data to watch without all the stuttering... and if I could have seen it on my every day workhorse (linux)... and if it wasn't the size of a postage stamp... maybe I'd reconsider)
I had the same problem, what was worse was it took so long for the site to load that I wasted a ton of time waiting for a clip that I couldn't even watch. I sent them a feedback email about it but unless they get more complaints they'll probably just ignore the problem.
It's a shame they still don't use MSI. Apps would be so much easier to deploy if apps used it, rather than having to write install scripts for every different type of installer. Just take a look at all the work currently necessary.
1) You can build an MSI installer for anything you so desire, just download Orca and have fun - when you see how difficult to deploy apps in MSI form you'll understand why MSI is a problem
2) MSI is not cross-platform, so a different installer is required on the other (many) OSes that are supported by Mozilla
3) It's not hard to run NSIS installers, see the helpful page Scripting Reference
All narrative, all the time - and boring as hell. What I want from a videogame is constant over-stimulation... which the classics did well, and which current game narratives interfere with.
You haven't played all the classics then: how about Monkey Island, Myst, and the old Sierra games?
We, your faithful processor purchasers (yes, we have many), have long been forced to buy nVidia hardware because of ATI's poor quality drivers under Linux. Please work the same magic you did with the AMD64 and give us something we can be proud of.
BTW, almost no Microsoft written applications are still vulnerable to shatter attacks on XP.
You can exploit a buffer overflow by changing the name of the stupid "Start" button! There are PLENTY of MS applications on XP that are vulnerable to this attack.
(I need an music player that plays Ogg Vorbis files, given the size of my collection that is in Ogg Vorbis, so no, I don't use an iPod. Unless that's changed?)
You can load Linux on an iPod and then you can play Ogg, need an older iPod though (though I don't check up on the project regularly).
I mostly use a GUI, so it doesn't stress me out too much, but makes it much easier to find them two years later.
Many shells now support the use of the "Tab" key to expand a filename (and list filenames that match what you have typed in so far). Also, if your music player is an iPod then you can format it with HPFS and lose that FAT restrictions - though, I believe the iPod actually just mangles the filename and uses the ID tags.
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* Serenity and Firefly are the intellectual property of "Universal Studios Licensing, LLLP"
If I had been able to actually download the data to watch without all the stuttering... and if I could have seen it on my every day workhorse (linux)... and if it wasn't the size of a postage stamp... maybe I'd reconsider)
I had the same problem, what was worse was it took so long for the site to load that I wasted a ton of time waiting for a clip that I couldn't even watch. I sent them a feedback email about it but unless they get more complaints they'll probably just ignore the problem.
It's a shame they still don't use MSI. Apps would be so much easier to deploy if apps used it, rather than having to write install scripts for every different type of installer. Just take a look at all the work currently necessary.
1) You can build an MSI installer for anything you so desire, just download Orca and have fun - when you see how difficult to deploy apps in MSI form you'll understand why MSI is a problem
2) MSI is not cross-platform, so a different installer is required on the other (many) OSes that are supported by Mozilla
3) It's not hard to run NSIS installers, see the helpful page Scripting Reference
All narrative, all the time - and boring as hell. What I want from a videogame is constant over-stimulation... which the classics did well, and which current game narratives interfere with.
You haven't played all the classics then: how about Monkey Island, Myst, and the old Sierra games?
ATI linux drivers for AMD?
Dear AMD:
We, your faithful processor purchasers (yes, we have many), have long been forced to buy nVidia hardware because of ATI's poor quality drivers under Linux. Please work the same magic you did with the AMD64 and give us something we can be proud of.
The undersigned.
BTW, almost no Microsoft written applications are still vulnerable to shatter attacks on XP.
You can exploit a buffer overflow by changing the name of the stupid "Start" button! There are PLENTY of MS applications on XP that are vulnerable to this attack.
(I need an music player that plays Ogg Vorbis files, given the size of my collection that is in Ogg Vorbis, so no, I don't use an iPod. Unless that's changed?)
You can load Linux on an iPod and then you can play Ogg, need an older iPod though (though I don't check up on the project regularly).
I mostly use a GUI, so it doesn't stress me out too much, but makes it much easier to find them two years later.
Many shells now support the use of the "Tab" key to expand a filename (and list filenames that match what you have typed in so far). Also, if your music player is an iPod then you can format it with HPFS and lose that FAT restrictions - though, I believe the iPod actually just mangles the filename and uses the ID tags.
If the minature solar system is sent into space, then would it also come under the effect of the gravity of the actual solar system?
Lagrangian Point
Now, give me a version of Linux that will run on it (with minimal hacking) and I'm sold!
Wow, you haven't been paying attention - the more expensive version is supposed to have Linux pre-loaded on it from the factory.
indeed! these people should be held liable for the damage done and time wasted.
Send them a bill for your time and file a small-claims suit if they don't comply, they'd rather pay you then be hassled (sound familiar).