Of course they might contract it on the job! What about having someone else's blood splattered all over your face, when you have no idea of where he might've been before dying? You don't have to necessarily fuck someone up the ass to get HIV.
Syphilis = kinda agreed Herpes = it's annoying as fuck but agreed HPV = vaccine is only for two types and they are not the ones that cause cancer... the other non-genital types? I don't care about 'em. HIV = kinda biased, the country where I live in (Brazil) gives away the medication since they broke the patents and chug away low cost pills without paying royalties
I don't know, but it's my opinion that a bomb ticking that you never know if/when it'll hit and take you or someone you love is much worse than something YOU KNOW is there and can easily control it free of cost.
As if HIV was the only STD and the others weren't dangerous or troublesome. Even today, HIV is the least of my concern. There is also HepB/C, HPV, Herpes, Syphilis... And unlike HIV, the infections usually come and go and you never know if you're still transmitting or if it'll get worse and cause cancer after a few decades (Hepatitis and HPV, specifically) either to you or your loved one.
This pretty much disgusts me as a customer, because most likely it means I won't be able to play newer games on my PS3 without worrying that they might be messing around with my system and removing functions I enjoy using on my system. The summary fails to add that Sony also says it's not their fault if they end up bricking your PS3. So, besides having a new flash pushed down your throat, if it fails you have to pay to have it fixed.
No, thanks. I'll stick to my DS Lite and Wii (which is still running System Menu 4.0 and had the IOS files updated using DopIOSMod), where I actually do have enough freedom of what I can or cannot do with my BOUGHT hardware.
Wait a second... if you disappeared, why did your comment get posted while on mid sentence? It doesn't make any sense! Who would click the submit button??... unless SOMEONE was trying to send a message... OH MY GOD NOW I KNOW TOO MUCH MUST GET OUT AND HURRY TO THE SAFE HO
Actually my friend does use TIM, and although we had a couple of voice cut-offs here and there, everything was just fine. Also, she mentioned there were various cases of cars running over pedestrians, and random folks thought something even worse was happening (2012 anyone?:P).
I live in Rio Grande do Sul, in a region where we have smaller power dams that supply more than enough energy for us to keep running without Itaipu, and I must say it was quite interesting to follow everything from here in real time. I was chatting with a friend of mine from Rio de Janeiro, and we were about to play some Mario Kart online, when suddently she sends me an SMS in 22:14 telling me "You're not gonna believe it, but the entire city of Rio de Janeiro has no energy. Even the Cristo Redentor doesn't have any light, and I've never seen that happen in my entire life!". A few minutes later she comes back online using her notebook and a 3G modem, retwitted the infos I sent her to her friends, and following my suggestion took a couple of pictures of what she was (un)able to see.
I then called her and she proceeded to tell me about how chaotic things were on the streets, that basically the traffic was jammed, all buildings nearby had people locked inside elevators and she could hear the cries for help, and until 5 minutes after the blackout all cellphone lines were jammed too. I then kept following the news on portal websites and Twitter and reported back to her in real time to let her know what was happening and how big things where, although she had already contacted friends throughout the country and kind of knew the places that were online and the ones that weren't.
I must say it was quite an experience to follow things in real time and inform someone right there about it, and I guess she was "thrilled" about it too, even though she's afraid of the dark.:(
No, because there are legal movie download services. If the ads mentioned "YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FREE MOVIES FASTER", then yes, because that's what the banners in question did.
I'm brazilian and I've read Internet Legal's press release about this (which is a bit like EFF), and what the judge actually prohibits is showing ads FOR THE SOFTWARE. The website in question (www.iplay.com.br) displayed ads which, according to the judge, implied that the software was meant for illegal file sharing.
Also, what happened here is that a second judge REVERSED the decision made by the first one, that said P2P applications are like knifes: you can use it for good OR evil, and there's nothing the maker can do about it. The second judge compared the P2P software to an establishment that sells both drugs (illegal) and soda pop (legal): even if legal products are available, the correct thing to do is to shut everything down.
This kind of thing really scares me, because this is exactly what it happens when someone dies, for example: the data/information stream coming from them on the web simply ceases to exist. Also, this is one of the main reasons why important projects should have their main assets handled by a group of people, and not have things centralized. If the worst has happened, CentOS will be forced to fork their project and start over.
But let's just hope I'm spewing bullshit and he's just pissed off.
Absolutely not. The real context of my comment is that parent said the iranians had no say over the kind of government they are being subjected to, as an answer to "The Iranians bear 100% of the blame for the existence of a tyrannical government in Iran" by grandparent (which I guess has been modded down as a flamebait).
What I can see from most answers to my post is that I've been misinterpreted when I said that they already had a chance. What I really mean isn't that they "already had their one chance and must now suffer the consequences until the end of times", but that they actually did have a chance to end tyranny without anyone else's help and installed their own government, their choice being what we see today.
This new generation is free to fix what their parents did and have their voices heard (and they should), but it doesn't automatically mean that by helping them (or not) we are admitting (or not) guilt to something that did not actually happen in this specific case - a regime installed by the western world.
Basically Valve broke their promise from last year and is now officially a greedy developer. If they intended to have Left4Dead be a technology preview all along, they should've gone and called this paid beta-testing as the Prologue version, like Gran Turismo 5.
"Valve intends to support hotly anticipated zombie survival shooter Left 4 Dead post-release with new characters, new maps, new achievements and new weapons in order to grow the community, Gabe Newell has revealed.
Speaking to VideoGamer.com at Leipzig Games Convention, the Valve co-founder and managing director said the developer intended to follow a similar downloadable content policy as it has with Team Fortress 2.
Newell said that Valve's support of the game post-launch will be essential for growing the community.
He said: "One of the things that we're doing is we seem to be in a transition between games as a package product and games more of a service. So if you look at Team Fortress 2, one of things that's really helped grow the community is the continuous updates, where we release new maps, new character classes, new unlockables, new weapons. And we tell the stories about the characters, like the meet the sniper, or meet the sandwich. And that ongoing delivery of content really seems to grow the community."
But Gasoline is more cost-effective than Ethanol where I live, for instance.
Because: 1. While Gasoline is about 42% more expensive than Ethanol, the mpg is lower on Ethanol. So, to correclty compare prices, you have to multiply the gasoline price by 0.7. When I do that, Gasoline ends up being 5% cheaper. 2. There is no control over ethanol tampering in Brazil. Quite a few gas stations add a bit of water to the tanks, and the flexible fuel cars won't stop working because of that. You just get lower mileage. 3. The temperature in our region is lower (Hey, 25ÂC is SMOKING HOT for me). We actually have a bit of snow during the winter... and Ethanol doesn't play nicely with cold temperatures. The engine deals with it by adding gasoline to the mix.
Unless you live in Sao Paulo (where ethanol is 45% cheaper when comparing prices vs mileage), it's just not worth it.
Diesel cars, the ones that are truly efficient, are not allowed in Brazil. That is because while Brazil doesn't depend on others for heavy crude oil, we have to import ALL of our light crude oil... and diesel cars would screw up the import/export balance. What about biodiesel, you say? We barely have enough volume to replace the diesel used in our trucks, nevermind fueling cars.
My experience with it says otherwise. I've had various issues with NTFS-3G when reading the hard disk on Windows. They are as follows:
1) For some reason, when a linux app tries to save a file with a question mark ("?"), which is an INVALID character on Windows, NTFS-3G will allow it to continue. You can perfectly read the file on linux (and write back to it), but Windows complains.
2) When using characters that have accents on them (like you see in romance languages - portuguese being my case), copying files back and forth is the same as begging to lose data. I've backed up my/home partition to an NTFS external HD only to find out a few days later that my Music and Videos folders had vanished. Other characters that I've had trouble with are the ones used to represent ordinal numbers in portuguese (which curiously won't show up correctly on slashdot).
In all of those cases, the partition works perfectly until you run CHKDSK, or write something to it under Windows. That pretty much undermines the main reason behind using NTFS-3G (writing to the same partition on both systems).
All in all, my opinion is either stick to Linux and EXT3 or Windows and NTFS. If you must use both, use different computers and get 'em exchanging data through SMB.
Disclaimer: I haven't researched for fixes (basically because when I found out about the issues it was too late and it didn't matter anymore) or tried to isolate the causes. What I've been using is the NTFS-3G driver supplied with Ubuntu (7.04 onwards).
Same here in Brazil. Ten years ago, most teenagers and young adults would use ICQ (and Netmeeting for webcam... ewww) to chat with each other.
But then in the early 2000s some started migrating to MSN to chat with their closest friends, and ICQ was pretty much like Orkut: everyone had a profile with correct data (full name, city, workplace, etc), people would search for each other and then communicate. Most people had like 15-20 contacts on MSN, and 500> on ICQ.
MSN now is the main IM in Brazil, and ICQ was eventually ditched... only geeks use it.
Oh, stop this fallacy already. If easy of use is such a bad thing, why don't we all migrate to Hurd and use command prompt only since Linux now is becoming user-friendly?
User friendliness (aka usable by idiots) is a GOOD thing because it allows us to do what needs to be done, faster. I don't want to take 5 minutes to do something that could be made in 30 seconds, and I guess other people think the same way, geeks or not.
Guess I should be answering this from Lynx and not Firefox.
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OS X Maru is way nicer
Of course they might contract it on the job! What about having someone else's blood splattered all over your face, when you have no idea of where he might've been before dying? You don't have to necessarily fuck someone up the ass to get HIV.
Syphilis = kinda agreed
Herpes = it's annoying as fuck but agreed
HPV = vaccine is only for two types and they are not the ones that cause cancer... the other non-genital types? I don't care about 'em.
HIV = kinda biased, the country where I live in (Brazil) gives away the medication since they broke the patents and chug away low cost pills without paying royalties
I don't know, but it's my opinion that a bomb ticking that you never know if/when it'll hit and take you or someone you love is much worse than something YOU KNOW is there and can easily control it free of cost.
Hold it right there!
As if HIV was the only STD and the others weren't dangerous or troublesome. Even today, HIV is the least of my concern. There is also HepB/C, HPV, Herpes, Syphilis... And unlike HIV, the infections usually come and go and you never know if you're still transmitting or if it'll get worse and cause cancer after a few decades (Hepatitis and HPV, specifically) either to you or your loved one.
This pretty much disgusts me as a customer, because most likely it means I won't be able to play newer games on my PS3 without worrying that they might be messing around with my system and removing functions I enjoy using on my system. The summary fails to add that Sony also says it's not their fault if they end up bricking your PS3. So, besides having a new flash pushed down your throat, if it fails you have to pay to have it fixed.
No, thanks. I'll stick to my DS Lite and Wii (which is still running System Menu 4.0 and had the IOS files updated using DopIOSMod), where I actually do have enough freedom of what I can or cannot do with my BOUGHT hardware.
Wait a second... if you disappeared, why did your comment get posted while on mid sentence? It doesn't make any sense! Who would click the submit button?? ... unless SOMEONE was trying to send a message... OH MY GOD NOW I KNOW TOO MUCH MUST GET OUT AND HURRY TO THE SAFE HO
Actually my friend does use TIM, and although we had a couple of voice cut-offs here and there, everything was just fine. Also, she mentioned there were various cases of cars running over pedestrians, and random folks thought something even worse was happening (2012 anyone? :P).
I live in Rio Grande do Sul, in a region where we have smaller power dams that supply more than enough energy for us to keep running without Itaipu, and I must say it was quite interesting to follow everything from here in real time. I was chatting with a friend of mine from Rio de Janeiro, and we were about to play some Mario Kart online, when suddently she sends me an SMS in 22:14 telling me "You're not gonna believe it, but the entire city of Rio de Janeiro has no energy. Even the Cristo Redentor doesn't have any light, and I've never seen that happen in my entire life!". A few minutes later she comes back online using her notebook and a 3G modem, retwitted the infos I sent her to her friends, and following my suggestion took a couple of pictures of what she was (un)able to see.
I then called her and she proceeded to tell me about how chaotic things were on the streets, that basically the traffic was jammed, all buildings nearby had people locked inside elevators and she could hear the cries for help, and until 5 minutes after the blackout all cellphone lines were jammed too. I then kept following the news on portal websites and Twitter and reported back to her in real time to let her know what was happening and how big things where, although she had already contacted friends throughout the country and kind of knew the places that were online and the ones that weren't.
I must say it was quite an experience to follow things in real time and inform someone right there about it, and I guess she was "thrilled" about it too, even though she's afraid of the dark. :(
Here are the photos she managed to take:
- http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1382/foto1jm.jpg
- http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5272/foto2b.jpg
No, because there are legal movie download services. If the ads mentioned "YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FREE MOVIES FASTER", then yes, because that's what the banners in question did.
I'm brazilian and I've read Internet Legal's press release about this (which is a bit like EFF), and what the judge actually prohibits is showing ads FOR THE SOFTWARE. The website in question (www.iplay.com.br) displayed ads which, according to the judge, implied that the software was meant for illegal file sharing.
Also, what happened here is that a second judge REVERSED the decision made by the first one, that said P2P applications are like knifes: you can use it for good OR evil, and there's nothing the maker can do about it. The second judge compared the P2P software to an establishment that sells both drugs (illegal) and soda pop (legal): even if legal products are available, the correct thing to do is to shut everything down.
in pt-br: http://www.internetlegal.com.br/2009/09/tjpr-decide-que-e-ilicito-o-uso-de-software-p2p-para-baixar-musicas-pela-internet/
in english (courtesy of google): http://translate.google.com.br/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.internetlegal.com.br%2F2009%2F09%2Ftjpr-decide-que-e-ilicito-o-uso-de-software-p2p-para-baixar-musicas-pela-internet%2F&sl=pt&tl=en&hl=pt-BR&ie=UTF-8
A female /r9k/ user perhaps. I guess Evan was a bit depressed about everything and created an advice thread on 4chan.
Not really. If such thing was true, John Carmack and iD Software would be in trouble because of Wolf3D's iPhone source code.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/25/2134234
This kind of thing really scares me, because this is exactly what it happens when someone dies, for example: the data/information stream coming from them on the web simply ceases to exist. Also, this is one of the main reasons why important projects should have their main assets handled by a group of people, and not have things centralized. If the worst has happened, CentOS will be forced to fork their project and start over.
But let's just hope I'm spewing bullshit and he's just pissed off.
Oh, come on! I was just joking about the way that sentence was written. I didn't expect some sort of spanish inquisition!
A laser diode is much more robust than a laser diode
*head explodes*
Absolutely not. The real context of my comment is that parent said the iranians had no say over the kind of government they are being subjected to, as an answer to "The Iranians bear 100% of the blame for the existence of a tyrannical government in Iran" by grandparent (which I guess has been modded down as a flamebait).
What I can see from most answers to my post is that I've been misinterpreted when I said that they already had a chance. What I really mean isn't that they "already had their one chance and must now suffer the consequences until the end of times", but that they actually did have a chance to end tyranny without anyone else's help and installed their own government, their choice being what we see today.
This new generation is free to fix what their parents did and have their voices heard (and they should), but it doesn't automatically mean that by helping them (or not) we are admitting (or not) guilt to something that did not actually happen in this specific case - a regime installed by the western world.
Except with the fact that the Iranians did actually overthrow the brutal despot that the US helped establish, and replaced him with what we see today?
AFAIK, the Iranians already had their chance to end tyranny and establish a democracy... but instead, they chose tyranny by different hands.
Basically Valve broke their promise from last year and is now officially a greedy developer. If they intended to have Left4Dead be a technology preview all along, they should've gone and called this paid beta-testing as the Prologue version, like Gran Turismo 5.
"Valve intends to support hotly anticipated zombie survival shooter Left 4 Dead post-release with new characters, new maps, new achievements and new weapons in order to grow the community, Gabe Newell has revealed.
Speaking to VideoGamer.com at Leipzig Games Convention, the Valve co-founder and managing director said the developer intended to follow a similar downloadable content policy as it has with Team Fortress 2.
Newell said that Valve's support of the game post-launch will be essential for growing the community.
He said: "One of the things that we're doing is we seem to be in a transition between games as a package product and games more of a service. So if you look at Team Fortress 2, one of things that's really helped grow the community is the continuous updates, where we release new maps, new character classes, new unlockables, new weapons. And we tell the stories about the characters, like the meet the sniper, or meet the sandwich. And that ongoing delivery of content really seems to grow the community."
source: http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/left_4_dead/news/valve_details_post_left_4_dead_launch_plans.html
So, I guess you were joking right now, eh?
I really like what Churchill said about all this:
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
But Gasoline is more cost-effective than Ethanol where I live, for instance.
Because:
1. While Gasoline is about 42% more expensive than Ethanol, the mpg is lower on Ethanol. So, to correclty compare prices, you have to multiply the gasoline price by 0.7. When I do that, Gasoline ends up being 5% cheaper.
2. There is no control over ethanol tampering in Brazil. Quite a few gas stations add a bit of water to the tanks, and the flexible fuel cars won't stop working because of that. You just get lower mileage.
3. The temperature in our region is lower (Hey, 25ÂC is SMOKING HOT for me). We actually have a bit of snow during the winter... and Ethanol doesn't play nicely with cold temperatures. The engine deals with it by adding gasoline to the mix.
Unless you live in Sao Paulo (where ethanol is 45% cheaper when comparing prices vs mileage), it's just not worth it.
Diesel cars, the ones that are truly efficient, are not allowed in Brazil. That is because while Brazil doesn't depend on others for heavy crude oil, we have to import ALL of our light crude oil... and diesel cars would screw up the import/export balance. What about biodiesel, you say? We barely have enough volume to replace the diesel used in our trucks, nevermind fueling cars.
My experience with it says otherwise. I've had various issues with NTFS-3G when reading the hard disk on Windows. They are as follows:
1) For some reason, when a linux app tries to save a file with a question mark ("?"), which is an INVALID character on Windows, NTFS-3G will allow it to continue. You can perfectly read the file on linux (and write back to it), but Windows complains.
2) When using characters that have accents on them (like you see in romance languages - portuguese being my case), copying files back and forth is the same as begging to lose data. I've backed up my /home partition to an NTFS external HD only to find out a few days later that my Music and Videos folders had vanished. Other characters that I've had trouble with are the ones used to represent ordinal numbers in portuguese (which curiously won't show up correctly on slashdot).
In all of those cases, the partition works perfectly until you run CHKDSK, or write something to it under Windows. That pretty much undermines the main reason behind using NTFS-3G (writing to the same partition on both systems).
All in all, my opinion is either stick to Linux and EXT3 or Windows and NTFS. If you must use both, use different computers and get 'em exchanging data through SMB.
Disclaimer: I haven't researched for fixes (basically because when I found out about the issues it was too late and it didn't matter anymore) or tried to isolate the causes. What I've been using is the NTFS-3G driver supplied with Ubuntu (7.04 onwards).
Now THAT would be interesting, to say at least...
"Move your wiimote to control a virtual whip, and punish that nasty slave refusing to comply with your orders. Online supported!"
Same here in Brazil. Ten years ago, most teenagers and young adults would use ICQ (and Netmeeting for webcam... ewww) to chat with each other.
But then in the early 2000s some started migrating to MSN to chat with their closest friends, and ICQ was pretty much like Orkut: everyone had a profile with correct data (full name, city, workplace, etc), people would search for each other and then communicate. Most people had like 15-20 contacts on MSN, and 500> on ICQ.
MSN now is the main IM in Brazil, and ICQ was eventually ditched... only geeks use it.
Oh, stop this fallacy already. If easy of use is such a bad thing, why don't we all migrate to Hurd and use command prompt only since Linux now is becoming user-friendly?
User friendliness (aka usable by idiots) is a GOOD thing because it allows us to do what needs to be done, faster. I don't want to take 5 minutes to do something that could be made in 30 seconds, and I guess other people think the same way, geeks or not.
Guess I should be answering this from Lynx and not Firefox.