Or you can do what I do. Keep a relatively large library of movies available for me to watch. Completely legal, good selection of things I like, and it's easy to switch my choice with little thought.
I might write a lot of intensely embarrassing (and incorrect) things in the password sections.....either that, or ask for a stack of papers to have enough spaces for every site I've registered at, and misspell all the usernames by exactly one character...
This one is much nastier? The standard influenza results in roughly 36,000 deaths per year and 200,000 hospitalizations. Currently, there are roughly 40,000 confirmed cases of swine flu, and somewhere short of 300 deaths. I think that this is just scaring people because it gets more media attention. It's new, it's special, and the fear is fueled by sensationalist journalism.
My interpretation has always been that the desire to have genetically related offspring is a survivability thing. Natural selection will always favor someone that spreads their genes, rather than a kind of voluntary severing of one's genetic line by not reproducing.
Helen Keller's condition was due to damage from a fever when she was an infant (we think something like scarlet fever or meningitis). Before that, she had properly functioning senses.
Playstation was originally going to be a CD-based add-on for the SNES, and Nintendo is the one that approached Sony about the idea. Sony took the idea and ran when Nintendo decided to back out when they were halfway through development.
As previously mentioned, the Windows help system is all html-based. Various programs (Steam and most of Red Kawa's products jump to mind) require the Trident engine to display the program's main window. That being said, when you install Wine on a Linux machine, you can install Gecko as the renderer used to display those things, so I don't see why Microsoft couldn't technically allow another browser to provide the rendering engine.
It may not be more correct behavior (from a social standpoint) to be a vigilante than an animal abuser, and perhaps even not more "civilized", but in a case like that, I'll side with the vigilante. There are behaviors that I would regard as inherently evil. Some vigilantes do things that are inherently evil. Some do things that are what I would consider good. The problem with the class of people "vigilante" in general is that they're acting outside of an exterior controlling force, so you have no guarantee that they're working for the betterment of society. But an animal or human abuser that causes harm without benefiting society (as opposed to a medical researchers or equivalent) is scum. There's no chance that they're doing something good, or for the right reasons. I can't bring myself to condemn someone who would fight against that kind of behavior.
So....we need a word processor version of Firefox! It really doesn't sound like a bad idea, especially if there was a standard plugin API that would work between different WPs. Then the competition could move on to innovation in the features provided by plugins. Vendors could sell packs of plugins the way that office suites are sold now.
Hmmm....yes it is. Whether it's justifiable or not is a more complex question, but they *are* suppressing things which have, on their own, been considered to be protected speech.
Of course....but missing some features that would be nice to see in a modern command-line. I haven't really tried Powershell, myself, but I've been told that it's much more advanced than the XP shell.
And why the heck don't you have to use the CLI often? I'm in there almost every day, even on my Windows machine.
Here's my tutorial: 1. Reimplement all Windows and DirectX functions and OS calls. This is left as an exercise for the reader, and won't be explicitly covered in this tutorial 2. Run your programs with ease! Congratulations!
Wine works about the way that you just outlined. You specify the program to run under it, and it uses open-source re-implementations of Windows OS functions to provide an environment for the program to run under. It's like an animal in a zoo. The environment we put them in won't ever be exactly the same, but if it's enough to keep them happy, eating, drinking, producing waste, and mating, then it's good enough. So Wine *is* an emulator in the same way that a zoo exhibit could be said to be one.
The upside to all this is that first of all, you can run Windows programs. Secondly, the only security holes that you'll actually produce are the ones specified by Windows function specifications (that is, those cases where a function is inherently flawed). Other than that, you've got all your own set of brand new security holes, haha.
And a really terrible signal-to-noise ratio, in terms of program choice. It seems to me like a growing percentage of the gratis programs available on Windows are limited editions or trial versions. I place a great deal of value in being able to search a central repository and knowing that I won't ever be bombarded by any sort of advertisements. I guess that's one of the things I like most in Linux.
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Or you can do what I do. Keep a relatively large library of movies available for me to watch. Completely legal, good selection of things I like, and it's easy to switch my choice with little thought.
I might write a lot of intensely embarrassing (and incorrect) things in the password sections.....either that, or ask for a stack of papers to have enough spaces for every site I've registered at, and misspell all the usernames by exactly one character...
How about his collectors? How are those coming? I think we need them by 2151 or so...
This one is much nastier? The standard influenza results in roughly 36,000 deaths per year and 200,000 hospitalizations. Currently, there are roughly 40,000 confirmed cases of swine flu, and somewhere short of 300 deaths. I think that this is just scaring people because it gets more media attention. It's new, it's special, and the fear is fueled by sensationalist journalism.
My interpretation has always been that the desire to have genetically related offspring is a survivability thing. Natural selection will always favor someone that spreads their genes, rather than a kind of voluntary severing of one's genetic line by not reproducing.
Helen Keller's condition was due to damage from a fever when she was an infant (we think something like scarlet fever or meningitis). Before that, she had properly functioning senses.
Num Lock? Yes, I use it to switch the number pad between acting as another set of arrow keys and numerical keys.
....says the guy with the Ideocracy paraphrase in his sig (Yes, yes. Mine's even more obvious >_)
Playstation was originally going to be a CD-based add-on for the SNES, and Nintendo is the one that approached Sony about the idea. Sony took the idea and ran when Nintendo decided to back out when they were halfway through development.
How ironic then, that the country of its origin can't use it as well as the cowboys across the ocean ;-)
As previously mentioned, the Windows help system is all html-based. Various programs (Steam and most of Red Kawa's products jump to mind) require the Trident engine to display the program's main window. That being said, when you install Wine on a Linux machine, you can install Gecko as the renderer used to display those things, so I don't see why Microsoft couldn't technically allow another browser to provide the rendering engine.
But I don't think that this was meant as a prototype for anything. It was meant as an art piece, not as a practical design.
It may not be more correct behavior (from a social standpoint) to be a vigilante than an animal abuser, and perhaps even not more "civilized", but in a case like that, I'll side with the vigilante. There are behaviors that I would regard as inherently evil. Some vigilantes do things that are inherently evil. Some do things that are what I would consider good. The problem with the class of people "vigilante" in general is that they're acting outside of an exterior controlling force, so you have no guarantee that they're working for the betterment of society. But an animal or human abuser that causes harm without benefiting society (as opposed to a medical researchers or equivalent) is scum. There's no chance that they're doing something good, or for the right reasons. I can't bring myself to condemn someone who would fight against that kind of behavior.
So....we need a word processor version of Firefox! It really doesn't sound like a bad idea, especially if there was a standard plugin API that would work between different WPs. Then the competition could move on to innovation in the features provided by plugins. Vendors could sell packs of plugins the way that office suites are sold now.
Ditto, although most of the Batman ones have been *much* better...
Depends on the cards. I think the guy above you meant regular playing cards, not a CCG. Couple bucks for a pack, and you're set.
600 hours on a game? Holy shit....I've never understood people that enjoy doing that.
I think AC meant from a recreational point of view. Given a large enough dose, it'll knock you out either way, of course.
Hmmm....yes it is. Whether it's justifiable or not is a more complex question, but they *are* suppressing things which have, on their own, been considered to be protected speech.
I guess it's like the definition of obscenity: "I know it when I see it"
Of course....but missing some features that would be nice to see in a modern command-line. I haven't really tried Powershell, myself, but I've been told that it's much more advanced than the XP shell.
And why the heck don't you have to use the CLI often? I'm in there almost every day, even on my Windows machine.
Here's my tutorial:
1. Reimplement all Windows and DirectX functions and OS calls. This is left as an exercise for the reader, and won't be explicitly covered in this tutorial
2. Run your programs with ease! Congratulations!
Wine works about the way that you just outlined. You specify the program to run under it, and it uses open-source re-implementations of Windows OS functions to provide an environment for the program to run under. It's like an animal in a zoo. The environment we put them in won't ever be exactly the same, but if it's enough to keep them happy, eating, drinking, producing waste, and mating, then it's good enough. So Wine *is* an emulator in the same way that a zoo exhibit could be said to be one.
The upside to all this is that first of all, you can run Windows programs. Secondly, the only security holes that you'll actually produce are the ones specified by Windows function specifications (that is, those cases where a function is inherently flawed). Other than that, you've got all your own set of brand new security holes, haha.
And a really terrible signal-to-noise ratio, in terms of program choice. It seems to me like a growing percentage of the gratis programs available on Windows are limited editions or trial versions. I place a great deal of value in being able to search a central repository and knowing that I won't ever be bombarded by any sort of advertisements. I guess that's one of the things I like most in Linux.
I don't know if we can store it in the Sun. Let's go talk to the Oracle.