You and I happen to agree that it is, but some people really don't mind the tyranny of the majority too much. If indeed that form of government is inherently superior
We've already seen that form of Government and the resultstherefrom. I think we can all agree
Ah, well I do not have those games (through steam).
Bioshock was a 'gift' - and I think I played it once. Crysis - not interested.
Fallout 3 - I have it, love it. Interestingly enough, this one has the tamest SecuROM available - CD checks only (and are easily bypassed by not using the launcher, and running the game directly... or as a side effect of using FOSE.
I don't have a whole lot of "popular" games really, aside from Valve's stuff.
I do manage to avoid a lot of the shit, if not all of it.
Steam has it's issues, true... but I find it a fair tradeoff to avoid bullshit like SecuROM that I would otherwise be dealing with, should I buy a real disc or from D2D etc.
This is called pinning, if anyone is looking for the solution.
or to make lists of packages required, even for your own scripts.
"equivs" can be used to create empty packages for the sole purpose of manipulating dependencies. I usually use it to kill packages that are otherwise demanded in other important metapackages, though you could also use it to 'hold' dependencies for a broken third-party.deb package.
Of course, apt and friends prompt you before they go about doing something. It's not some magical black box that issues random version numbers every time you run it.
You know about Debian-Volatile right? What's even better, is this is part of -stable and has been included in your default repository config since Lenny released.
This is meant specifically for moving targets like ClamAV.
how are you going to: communicate your idea to possible investors? Come up with a decent business plan? Raise the funding to turn this idea into a successful enterprise? Find and properly motivate employees?
Find someone who CAN do that, and have them do so, for a cut of the result.
Different people are good at different things. Why is communication so highly valued in areas where it is not essential?
When you move a domain from one registrar to another (for any reason) the process involves sending an authorization key to the admin contact email, and along the way approve/deny and other such materials are sent as well.
This is a mandatory process that ICANN has instituted.
That you've never done this means you've never had problems with your current registrar, and have never aquired a domain that was already under a particular registrar.
Ah, but is this a significant amount? I would imagine no, short of really horrid programs.
Cache... well, the register sizes are larger as well, so does that really come in to play?
Memory bandwidth... the portion of memory bandwidth consumed by this must be so tiny as to be completely irrelevant, when compared to a program's real use of RAM.
I'm sure there are corner-cases where what you speak of will be true, but for most use, I wouldn't expect it to be true.
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This is why you never code your bots while drunk.
Whoever did this should be ashamed.
You and I happen to agree that it is, but some people really don't mind the tyranny of the majority too much. If indeed that form of government is inherently superior
We've already seen that form of Government and the results therefrom. I think we can all agree
It's not nice to take quotes out of context.
http://www.thewikireader.com/media/pictures/wr_hand1_small.jpg
Oh, that's funny. I see something on that page that doesn't look anything like a latin character set.
The databases are the same, I don't see why this wouldn't be able to read a non-english wikipedia dump.
Great! Will your blackberry run for a year on a single pair of batteries? Oh shit...
Indeed.
Plus, if it's AA and you can only find AAAs... stick a couple of pennies in there, and they work just fine (though they wouldn't last as long).
Really!
It's not that hard to fucking sign an email. Why do people and institutions refuse to 'get it'?
No, I appreciate that I get emails saying "a transaction over your set amount has occured".
That said, I set up these alerts myself.
Emails cost nothing to send if you are illegitimate enough to be doing this... these people have botnets.
Ah, well I do not have those games (through steam).
Bioshock was a 'gift' - and I think I played it once. Crysis - not interested.
Fallout 3 - I have it, love it. Interestingly enough, this one has the tamest SecuROM available - CD checks only (and are easily bypassed by not using the launcher, and running the game directly... or as a side effect of using FOSE.
I don't have a whole lot of "popular" games really, aside from Valve's stuff.
I do manage to avoid a lot of the shit, if not all of it.
It doesn't appear to be.
Steam has it's issues, true... but I find it a fair tradeoff to avoid bullshit like SecuROM that I would otherwise be dealing with, should I buy a real disc or from D2D etc.
Probably context.
You may!
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I saw the potential and just couldn't resist.
By the way, there are ways to hold packages too
This is called pinning, if anyone is looking for the solution.
or to make lists of packages required, even for your own scripts.
"equivs" can be used to create empty packages for the sole purpose of manipulating dependencies. I usually use it to kill packages that are otherwise demanded in other important metapackages, though you could also use it to 'hold' dependencies for a broken third-party .deb package.
Of course, apt and friends prompt you before they go about doing something. It's not some magical black box that issues random version numbers every time you run it.
You know about Debian-Volatile right? What's even better, is this is part of -stable and has been included in your default repository config since Lenny released.
This is meant specifically for moving targets like ClamAV.
This kind of thing does happen. I've reported a package that did so... we had a fix on the official repositories within days.
Why this is considered a bad thing is beyond me. Debian on my server, other shinier toys on my desktop.
how are you going to: communicate your idea to possible investors? Come up with a decent business plan? Raise the funding to turn this idea into a successful enterprise? Find and properly motivate employees?
Find someone who CAN do that, and have them do so, for a cut of the result.
Different people are good at different things. Why is communication so highly valued in areas where it is not essential?
I think it safest to just avoid the problem entirely...
When you move a domain from one registrar to another (for any reason) the process involves sending an authorization key to the admin contact email, and along the way approve/deny and other such materials are sent as well.
This is a mandatory process that ICANN has instituted.
That you've never done this means you've never had problems with your current registrar, and have never aquired a domain that was already under a particular registrar.
Of course, the email addresses you enter MUST be valid and accessible, lest you ever want to do various things such as transferring domains.
If any of our sample population really IS smart and sophisticated, he was caught due to complacency and/or laziness...
Bad luck happens, you know...
Ah, but is this a significant amount? I would imagine no, short of really horrid programs.
Cache... well, the register sizes are larger as well, so does that really come in to play?
Memory bandwidth... the portion of memory bandwidth consumed by this must be so tiny as to be completely irrelevant, when compared to a program's real use of RAM.
I'm sure there are corner-cases where what you speak of will be true, but for most use, I wouldn't expect it to be true.
Switching is one thing, but running concurrently? That is a fairly new development right?
Yes, but you're not going to be trying to run several virtual machines at once on that Celeron are you? That's what I'm talking about.