But it was already an xbox exclusive wasn't it? Not like they changed much. I guess they made sure Bungie didn't release it for Mac, but Macs don't exactly seem to have a big gaming market anyway..
That's how I felt about KDE 4 when it first came out. As time goes on it's turning out to be a much nicer/cleaner interface overall. Maybe this will happen with Windows 7? (Windows Vista is KDE 4.0, Windows 7 is KDE 4.2?)
Yeah seriously. Look at the real site. They made a page that isn't fit for Wikipedia, then when it was deleted they created a new website with Wikipedia in the name. They're not criticizing Wikipedia, they're hoping that people will associate their "art" with Wikipedia, which is exactly why Wikipedia is trying to make them stop.
No no no.. If they don't use open source while their competitors do, they will fail, but since they're too big to fail, they will receive bailouts. The companies that used open source and made a profit will fail because they can't compete against government sponsored monopolies.
Because it's a new law that applies to the last. It's what ex post facto means, and it's bad because if the government can create laws that apply to thing you've already done, then even people who follow the law aren't safe.
The problem with this is that you have a fairly high success rate just by guessing. If you have a page with 9 animals and ask which one is cute, there's a 1/9 chance of getting it right just by guessing (if you can choose multiple, it goes up to 1/511). If you use a 4 character CAPTCHA with letters (not case sensitive) and numbers, there's a 1/1679616 chance of getting it right by guessing. Blocking 499/500 posts isn't bad, but spammers try to post a LOT of spam. On my website I got about 900 spam comments in a couple weeks before I implemented a better anti-spam system (previously I just didn't show posts until posters clicked a link in an email).
I think he meant restricting yourself to reactor designs used in the U.S. (because otherwise it's like saying "All knives are crap and break easily" and using a plastic knife from KFC as your example).
And if we finally get fusion to work within the next few decades, it should be fairly easy to convert existing nuke plants
Do you even know how fusion works? You don't just switch out the uranium fuel rods for new magical fusion rods. Fusion and fission are very different processes (opposites in fact).
It's not that nothing could possibly go wrong, the thing is that we know what went wrong, and anti-nuclear people try to ignore that and say "Well what if what happened at Chernobyl happened again?", when we know that it was a mixture of a terrible reactor design and quite possibly the stupidest test anyone would ever think up, and it won't happen again, and couldn't have happened in the United States.
And then there's the Three Mile Island accident, which is "The biggest nuclear accident in American history", and we're told this as if it's supposed to scare us, when it was a situation that proved just how well our reactors work, when "the biggest nuclear accident in American history" didn't do anything except force us to turn a power plant off.
The thing is, it's really not that hard to make a nuclear power plant not explode.
Exactly, they're probably just covering their ass for things like safe-search, phishing filter, and other options like blocking non-secure items on a secure webpage.
Why not just make companies responsible for what they do? If a company pollutes a river, they have to pay to clean it up (full price), and if they knowingly pollute the river bring criminal charges as well. It would be more complicated to deal with air pollution since it would be impossible for one company to undo global warming, and we can't entirely stop giving off CO2, but forcing companies to at least do something to counteract the damage they do would be a good start. Ideas for air pollution would be planting lots of trees, buying rainforest land and protecting it, funding research in how to clean up air pollution..
I think if you buy the DVD you don't have the right to download a higher quality copy (since you were presumably buying it knowing that you were getting a lower quality version), but if you buy the Blueray version, downloading the DVD copy should be legal since you bought a higher quality version and it would be trivial to create it if you had your original--although I could possibly see an argument that you could only download the DVD version if there isn't a torrent of the Blueray version available.
Try NeoOffice. For some reason open source programs seem to get a half-assed official port, and then someone else picks it up and makes a real port. It's like the difference between running Pidgin and Adium on your Mac. Sure, you could run Pidgin, but you wouldn't want to.
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Depending on how hard this is to do in Windows, it may be worth just running two instances of CoH in Wine. It sounds like it's playable.
Some people do. We don't here, but that probably has more to do with the lack of chimps and gorillas in the US and Europe than anything else.
I thought Oracle was a database? Is it different enough from MySQL to bother keeping both?
I think several billion threads may be a little too much..
But it was already an xbox exclusive wasn't it? Not like they changed much. I guess they made sure Bungie didn't release it for Mac, but Macs don't exactly seem to have a big gaming market anyway..
Will we still have to sit through ads during our government sponsored mouth-peeing?
Well we could start by not constantly being at war. Then we could lower our military budget..
Or they could all just use a format that can be read on ANY e-reader.
That's how I felt about KDE 4 when it first came out. As time goes on it's turning out to be a much nicer/cleaner interface overall. Maybe this will happen with Windows 7? (Windows Vista is KDE 4.0, Windows 7 is KDE 4.2?)
Yeah seriously. Look at the real site. They made a page that isn't fit for Wikipedia, then when it was deleted they created a new website with Wikipedia in the name. They're not criticizing Wikipedia, they're hoping that people will associate their "art" with Wikipedia, which is exactly why Wikipedia is trying to make them stop.
No no no.. If they don't use open source while their competitors do, they will fail, but since they're too big to fail, they will receive bailouts. The companies that used open source and made a profit will fail because they can't compete against government sponsored monopolies.
Yeah and that time Linux totally ripped off Vista's 'Aero' effects..
Because it's a new law that applies to the last. It's what ex post facto means, and it's bad because if the government can create laws that apply to thing you've already done, then even people who follow the law aren't safe.
The problem with this is that you have a fairly high success rate just by guessing. If you have a page with 9 animals and ask which one is cute, there's a 1/9 chance of getting it right just by guessing (if you can choose multiple, it goes up to 1/511). If you use a 4 character CAPTCHA with letters (not case sensitive) and numbers, there's a 1/1679616 chance of getting it right by guessing. Blocking 499/500 posts isn't bad, but spammers try to post a LOT of spam. On my website I got about 900 spam comments in a couple weeks before I implemented a better anti-spam system (previously I just didn't show posts until posters clicked a link in an email).
So you're not arguing anything then? What could go wrong is meaningless without knowing how likely it is to happen.
Pidgin has encryption plugins, but from what I've heard, they aren't entirely stable :(
I think he meant restricting yourself to reactor designs used in the U.S. (because otherwise it's like saying "All knives are crap and break easily" and using a plastic knife from KFC as your example).
And if we finally get fusion to work within the next few decades, it should be fairly easy to convert existing nuke plants
Do you even know how fusion works? You don't just switch out the uranium fuel rods for new magical fusion rods. Fusion and fission are very different processes (opposites in fact).
It's not that nothing could possibly go wrong, the thing is that we know what went wrong, and anti-nuclear people try to ignore that and say "Well what if what happened at Chernobyl happened again?", when we know that it was a mixture of a terrible reactor design and quite possibly the stupidest test anyone would ever think up, and it won't happen again, and couldn't have happened in the United States.
And then there's the Three Mile Island accident, which is "The biggest nuclear accident in American history", and we're told this as if it's supposed to scare us, when it was a situation that proved just how well our reactors work, when "the biggest nuclear accident in American history" didn't do anything except force us to turn a power plant off.
The thing is, it's really not that hard to make a nuclear power plant not explode.
Exactly, they're probably just covering their ass for things like safe-search, phishing filter, and other options like blocking non-secure items on a secure webpage.
Why not just make companies responsible for what they do? If a company pollutes a river, they have to pay to clean it up (full price), and if they knowingly pollute the river bring criminal charges as well. It would be more complicated to deal with air pollution since it would be impossible for one company to undo global warming, and we can't entirely stop giving off CO2, but forcing companies to at least do something to counteract the damage they do would be a good start.
Ideas for air pollution would be planting lots of trees, buying rainforest land and protecting it, funding research in how to clean up air pollution..
Considering how uncommon it is for anything serious to go wrong in a nuclear power plant, I don't see how this is a hard choice.
I think if you buy the DVD you don't have the right to download a higher quality copy (since you were presumably buying it knowing that you were getting a lower quality version), but if you buy the Blueray version, downloading the DVD copy should be legal since you bought a higher quality version and it would be trivial to create it if you had your original--although I could possibly see an argument that you could only download the DVD version if there isn't a torrent of the Blueray version available.
Am I the only one who wishes the Terra-tron was a real unit?
Try NeoOffice. For some reason open source programs seem to get a half-assed official port, and then someone else picks it up and makes a real port. It's like the difference between running Pidgin and Adium on your Mac. Sure, you could run Pidgin, but you wouldn't want to.