I got in to seattle from japan about four months ago.
going to japan was simple. the worst part was asking to turn on my laptop. it POSTed and the screener was happy (didnt even get to GRUB). this was at the airport in Fairbanks, AK.
leaving japan was easy, despite being rather drunk and (honestly) forgetting about the undeclared food items discovered in my suitcase. a customs agent (i think...) asked me a few questions as i was waiting for my baggage to arrive, but he was friendly and its not like i had anything better to do.
seattle was just as easy. no one hassled me or even asked to look at my laptop which had actually died in japan and would not power up any more.
the boring stories like mine dont get told often because... well, theyre boring. people would much rather read about how someone was illegally detained because they wouldnt give up their bios password, tortured until they capitulated, and TSA/customs/whoever got to see their encrypted amateur poetry before confiscating the laptop and uploading its contents into CARNIVORE to locate your favorite jazz club.
first off, i dont know why the parent is modded troll. looks like a sour grapes mod.
second, yes the average computer retard can install flash and activex stuff, but only for a few reasons:
a. "the internet" pops up a message saying 'click me to install something' and they do.
b. they 'need' youtube and are determined to make it work.
-on my nokia 810, if i click a.deb file in a browser, it opens the package manager and begins installation. it CAN be this easy in GNU/Linux. maybe other distros do this too, i dont know because i use plain-old debian unstable.
-if people were forced to use GNU/Linux then they WOULD find their distro's respective package manager and install what they 'needed'.
owning a boat, having family, friends, and enjoying things is not a 'fantastic lifestyle'. i needed a boat to get to and from home every day for 16 years, and i wasnt living like royalty.
it was all paid for too, because it was modest stuff. i wasnt driving a yacht around. so i dont understand who will be paying back what in your reply.
how about if he tows a boat or other equipment? a prius isnt going to suffice.
what are people 'supposed' to sacrifice (family? friends? enjoyment?) to be considered 'okay' by the global warming die-hards? changing out light bulbs, reducing energy usage at home, recycling and all that are great and easy to do, but "sorry mom, i cant visit you for mothers day because the earth is too warm today" isnt acceptable to most people.
Youre right, but there is a little more to it.
These are called 'exercises', are planned extensively, and there is definitely installation coordination. The local DOIM (directorate of information management) is notified of the exercise, usually by their theatre command well ahead of time.
Of all the phishing iv seen during various exercises, iv never seen one more complicated than simply counting how many users on what installation clicked the link. no information gathering besides IP, which is helpful for problem user training.
you mean like larry craig? no money, just sex and lots of news coverage.
or do you mean like william jefferson, where there was a lot of money, no sex, and little coverage?
while i agree that it is typical marketing bullshit, seven feet away is about where a 54" tv should be for proper viewing.
though, i doubt that they were trying to impress anyone by saying the simulated large screen is at the simulated proper distance.
251-162 to even debate impeachment, and then rather than holding the debate that was voted for, it was decided to move it forward, failing 218-194.
sounds weird and not all that narrow. its split down the middle (more or less), just like the parties (more or less). is anyone suprised??
and how many abstained from voting or just didnt show up?
3-4 is narrow, 24 (four less than the difference in parties) is not.
I think the problem is that a lot of people dont consider those games system-sellers.
Im sure i would enjoy playing motorstorm and tony hawk, but i dont really care about them enough to even borrow a friend's ps3, let alone buy one.
at work i frequently get emails with no body, just a powerpoint attachment containing (in wordart) a simple message (august birthdays party at noon tomorrow!).
people around the facility learned a while ago that i dont open powerpoints from email -save for work-related ones (which iv never come across).
if its not important enough information to treat with a little respect ("cheryl has cancer and we're taking donations!" in wordart doesnt come across as serious as it should) then i dont think its important enough to waste my time looking at.
I dont think I figured out how to powerslide either (this was about a year ago). Probably another arcadey change to the formula to order the playing field and keep the games tight races.
For crying out loud, i was playing against a guy (who knew what he was doing) and two girls who definitely werent hardcore MK players, and the girls won as many times as I did. Crazy hectic games, but i agree that it wouldnt be a good foundation for a serious console MK game. It could make an interested multiplayer mode, if you were able to turn it on and off.
I also played the MK Arcade game in Osaka (with three friends) and i wouldnt say it was bad, just odd.
I couldnt nail down why some things were happening. I think the game balances things out across the players so that no one can really take a lead. It feels wrong, but it keeps everyone more or less together, and as a result there is a lot of action.
Why does it matter if a game takes more than one disc?
Having to get up every 15hrs of game time to swap discs is not a problem.
How much does it cost the manufacturer for three extra discs and larger packaging? Its likely to be pennies extra, though its better than spending extra dollars on a new disc format that causes everyone to hemorrhage money when they sell their hardware.
I partially agree that "porting" games with wine sucks, but if they heavily tweaked wine to run the game perfectly and then wrapped it all up into one binary -whats the problem? Releasing a half-assed version with graphical glitches and problems wouldnt be an option, considering this is a product they want to sell, so its a good bet that it'll be better than your average plays-mostly-everything wine install.
Side-note: i would certainly prefer things be ported properly, but if devs can tweak wine easily enough and well enough that you cant tell the (performance? graphical? audio?) difference, then maybe it isnt such a bad thing after all.
Not to say it wouldnt shred your cheese, but randomly generated levels in games like RPGs are pretty bad.
Its very obvious when a level is randomly generated, it has none of the thought and planning that a level designer puts into a map.
Plus, you know that youre just running through a maze that the CPU made, and for some people that trivializes it.
Then again, there are a lot of people who buy dungeon crawlers and other games that consist solely of randomly generated mazes, so it certainly appeals to someone.
The asshole answer would be:
There is no mplayer in debian! you have to add that repo yourself!
The real answer would be:
Yes, it would pull in a few deps (not many), but most of the packages would show up under a "Suggested packages:" line when confirming execution. you can then choose to install those, or simply leave them out.
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yes, there is no doubt whatsoever.
I added the "whatsoever" to be even more insanely paranoid than you, and thus steal your Insightful mods.
i just remembered the questions the officer at the airport was asking me!
He was asking me about my job. I work for the DoD, so maybe i got special treatment. let the conspiracy wheels turn!
caucasian male, 25yrs old, drunk
I got in to seattle from japan about four months ago.
going to japan was simple. the worst part was asking to turn on my laptop. it POSTed and the screener was happy (didnt even get to GRUB). this was at the airport in Fairbanks, AK.
leaving japan was easy, despite being rather drunk and (honestly) forgetting about the undeclared food items discovered in my suitcase. a customs agent (i think...) asked me a few questions as i was waiting for my baggage to arrive, but he was friendly and its not like i had anything better to do.
seattle was just as easy. no one hassled me or even asked to look at my laptop which had actually died in japan and would not power up any more.
the boring stories like mine dont get told often because... well, theyre boring. people would much rather read about how someone was illegally detained because they wouldnt give up their bios password, tortured until they capitulated, and TSA/customs/whoever got to see their encrypted amateur poetry before confiscating the laptop and uploading its contents into CARNIVORE to locate your favorite jazz club.
first off, i dont know why the parent is modded troll. looks like a sour grapes mod.
.deb file in a browser, it opens the package manager and begins installation. it CAN be this easy in GNU/Linux. maybe other distros do this too, i dont know because i use plain-old debian unstable.
second, yes the average computer retard can install flash and activex stuff, but only for a few reasons:
a. "the internet" pops up a message saying 'click me to install something' and they do.
b. they 'need' youtube and are determined to make it work.
-on my nokia 810, if i click a
-if people were forced to use GNU/Linux then they WOULD find their distro's respective package manager and install what they 'needed'.
what?
owning a boat, having family, friends, and enjoying things is not a 'fantastic lifestyle'. i needed a boat to get to and from home every day for 16 years, and i wasnt living like royalty.
it was all paid for too, because it was modest stuff. i wasnt driving a yacht around. so i dont understand who will be paying back what in your reply.
how about if he tows a boat or other equipment? a prius isnt going to suffice.
what are people 'supposed' to sacrifice (family? friends? enjoyment?) to be considered 'okay' by the global warming die-hards? changing out light bulbs, reducing energy usage at home, recycling and all that are great and easy to do, but "sorry mom, i cant visit you for mothers day because the earth is too warm today" isnt acceptable to most people.
boot up with a bootdisc
chroot to the hard drive partition
$passwd root
reboot into the actual system and login with the new root password
Youre right, but there is a little more to it.
These are called 'exercises', are planned extensively, and there is definitely installation coordination. The local DOIM (directorate of information management) is notified of the exercise, usually by their theatre command well ahead of time.
Of all the phishing iv seen during various exercises, iv never seen one more complicated than simply counting how many users on what installation clicked the link. no information gathering besides IP, which is helpful for problem user training.
you mean like larry craig? no money, just sex and lots of news coverage.
or do you mean like william jefferson, where there was a lot of money, no sex, and little coverage?
while i agree that it is typical marketing bullshit, seven feet away is about where a 54" tv should be for proper viewing.
though, i doubt that they were trying to impress anyone by saying the simulated large screen is at the simulated proper distance.
very interesting, thanks for the link.
in case anyone else is interested, it breaks down as follows:
Ayes Noes PRES NV
Democratic 214 5 13
Republican 4 189 7
Independent
TOTALS 218 194 20
251-162 to even debate impeachment, and then rather than holding the debate that was voted for, it was decided to move it forward, failing 218-194.
sounds weird and not all that narrow. its split down the middle (more or less), just like the parties (more or less). is anyone suprised??
and how many abstained from voting or just didnt show up?
3-4 is narrow, 24 (four less than the difference in parties) is not.
I think the problem is that a lot of people dont consider those games system-sellers.
Im sure i would enjoy playing motorstorm and tony hawk, but i dont really care about them enough to even borrow a friend's ps3, let alone buy one.
at work i frequently get emails with no body, just a powerpoint attachment containing (in wordart) a simple message (august birthdays party at noon tomorrow!).
people around the facility learned a while ago that i dont open powerpoints from email -save for work-related ones (which iv never come across).
if its not important enough information to treat with a little respect ("cheryl has cancer and we're taking donations!" in wordart doesnt come across as serious as it should) then i dont think its important enough to waste my time looking at.
I dont think I figured out how to powerslide either (this was about a year ago). Probably another arcadey change to the formula to order the playing field and keep the games tight races.
For crying out loud, i was playing against a guy (who knew what he was doing) and two girls who definitely werent hardcore MK players, and the girls won as many times as I did. Crazy hectic games, but i agree that it wouldnt be a good foundation for a serious console MK game. It could make an interested multiplayer mode, if you were able to turn it on and off.
I also played the MK Arcade game in Osaka (with three friends) and i wouldnt say it was bad, just odd.
I couldnt nail down why some things were happening. I think the game balances things out across the players so that no one can really take a lead. It feels wrong, but it keeps everyone more or less together, and as a result there is a lot of action.
Why does it matter if a game takes more than one disc?
Having to get up every 15hrs of game time to swap discs is not a problem.
How much does it cost the manufacturer for three extra discs and larger packaging? Its likely to be pennies extra, though its better than spending extra dollars on a new disc format that causes everyone to hemorrhage money when they sell their hardware.
I partially agree that "porting" games with wine sucks, but if they heavily tweaked wine to run the game perfectly and then wrapped it all up into one binary -whats the problem? Releasing a half-assed version with graphical glitches and problems wouldnt be an option, considering this is a product they want to sell, so its a good bet that it'll be better than your average plays-mostly-everything wine install.
Side-note: i would certainly prefer things be ported properly, but if devs can tweak wine easily enough and well enough that you cant tell the (performance? graphical? audio?) difference, then maybe it isnt such a bad thing after all.
Not to say it wouldnt shred your cheese, but randomly generated levels in games like RPGs are pretty bad.
Its very obvious when a level is randomly generated, it has none of the thought and planning that a level designer puts into a map.
Plus, you know that youre just running through a maze that the CPU made, and for some people that trivializes it.
Then again, there are a lot of people who buy dungeon crawlers and other games that consist solely of randomly generated mazes, so it certainly appeals to someone.
People voting republican + Hillary Clinton = 4?
you want to either try a newer daily of rockbox or replace your sansa's battery, because that is not common.
while the power management is indeed better in the original firmware, its far from bad on rockbox, and still being improved upon.
No, he doesnt like christians, that means he is a democrat.
wait, is it possible that ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE have FUCKED UP opinions?!
nah, didnt think so. go back to dailykos, AC
So some stupid web designer put some images on the site he was hired to make, that means the whole organization is hypocritical?
Not to defend their movement or anything, but assuming the site wasnt made in-house by an "IP believer", the situation is ironic, not hypocritical.
How about all the wildlife in those large "useless" plots of land?
is there going to be a huge PETA backlash against solar energy because the desert scorpions are being threatened?
The asshole answer would be:
There is no mplayer in debian! you have to add that repo yourself!
The real answer would be:
Yes, it would pull in a few deps (not many), but most of the packages would show up under a "Suggested packages:" line when confirming execution. you can then choose to install those, or simply leave them out.