I think I still prefer the 0.5MB "special" install.exe file (that I uhh... got from a friend), to the several hunderd MB original. Granted, this doesn't let you play the campaign, but this isn't what Starcraft is about anyway.
The browser most likely can, an overly restricive firewall on his end might be a problem though. Still, you can always tunnel, check it out after work, or remove the coral cache part.
Mini CDs are also great for a boot-and-rescue cd to carry around -- they are (obviously) smaller, which makes them more carry-proof. Normal CDs always manage to slip out of a slim case and get scratched, and a full size jewel cases are a bit too big.
I wonder how long it would take for someone to set up a "$YOURAPP Windows Installers" site with, you know, the source along with compiled executables. And how long till that site is better known, higher in google and generating more ad revenue.
Of course you might try to prevent that with some sort of legal stuff, like using some form of General Ripoff License insted of GPL, that would disallow the distribution of executables. But then you might as well keep the thing closed source.
If I had to come up with some suggestions for a tween/teenage car nut that don't involve getting chased by cops at any point in the game, I'd replace Need for Speed with either "Project Gotham Racing 4" or "Forza Motorsport 2".
Someone should tell him that the new NFS actually has no cops and is about legal racing this time
Racing to a red light is definitely dumb, but doing 50MPH on a highway not only "annoys" other people, it contibutes towards more congestion and hence more total fuel usage. When you go slow, many drivers behind you will have to slow down if they are unable to pass you smoothly, in turn someone behind them will have to slow down as well, and suddenly you have a wave of slowness propagating back, ending in a traffic jam. So you might just be wasting a lot of other people's gas.
And meanwhile, in Europe, people sometimes still wonder how US-ians can consider $3/gallon "expensive" - and that is true in countries with much lower average income.
Unfortunately, people get confused, especially on 3 lane roundabouts, and start wandering into the wrong lane, pulling out in front of people trying to turn off, or overtaking on the outside past slower moving traffic in the middle lanes (a serious crime, damn those bastards when I'm on my bike) trapping people in.
Isn't going through a 3-lane roundabout on a bike considered a suicide attempt?
Zip files have headers with predictable patterns ("PK" anyone?). Ditto for pretty much any file format. Also, it's not about what file you transfer -- it's about the how. They can selectively cut down ssh and common vpn ports, or they might be just throttling anything non-HTTP.
Maybe we could even have the ability to write the memory conents to disk before turning the computer off, so when turned on again, it would resume where we've left off. I'd call it "hibernation".
yeah, but anyway, in this specific case, how do you guarantee that the gc run doesn't lock up the entire system for half a second (during which the car rams into a wall)?
I'd assume those shaking heads were muttering "geez, another one" rather than "omg wtf how can someone be afraid of it". Claustrophobia isn't all that unheard of, and being shoved into a friggin pipe is somewhat a powerful trigger.
It makes little sesnse to me. They're *broadcasting* it, and the football night at the bar already gives them and their advertisers the thing they want most - viewers. I'd have some doubts if it was a paid, cable channel, but in case of a broadcast I see no reason why the bar should pay.
Then again, the law probably disagrees with me, at least where I live. Here the sucky thing is that when a goddamn hairdresser plays some radio in his shop, he has to pay a monthly fee. Not to the radio or the actual performers, but to a "copyright holders association". The money then disappears, as most artists have repeatedly said that the "association" never ever paid them anything. (and I'm refering to the reasonably popular ones that you can actually hear on the radio from time to time)
Better yet, what if someone patents all "evolutionary-designed $DEVICE" (antennas, cables, whatever), making any further attempts to evolve a different version a violation?
You fogot step 0, that is "Find out that the show you're looking for is unavailable for legal download. Half a year later, after it gets realeased on dvd, realize it's only in US/UK/whatever and not in your country. Enjoy the fact that ordering the dvd from overseas will take 2 weeks and cost twice the already outrageous price"
I hate internationalized error messages. Unless someone reported the problem in your language, which is usually not the case, you have to first figure out what the error was in English before you can google anything.
foobuntu 7.04 shipped with a bug that made X crash on widescreen laptops with an ati card - a safe mode would have saved them the embarassment of having to tell people "fire up nano, edit xorg.conf, blah blah, and THEN you have the easy-to-use Linux distro!"
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I think I still prefer the 0.5MB "special" install.exe file (that I uhh... got from a friend), to the several hunderd MB original. Granted, this doesn't let you play the campaign, but this isn't what Starcraft is about anyway.
The browser most likely can, an overly restricive firewall on his end might be a problem though. Still, you can always tunnel, check it out after work, or remove the coral cache part.
Mini CDs are also great for a boot-and-rescue cd to carry around -- they are (obviously) smaller, which makes them more carry-proof. Normal CDs always manage to slip out of a slim case and get scratched, and a full size jewel cases are a bit too big.
I wonder how long it would take for someone to set up a "$YOURAPP Windows Installers" site with, you know, the source along with compiled executables. And how long till that site is better known, higher in google and generating more ad revenue.
Of course you might try to prevent that with some sort of legal stuff, like using some form of General Ripoff License insted of GPL, that would disallow the distribution of executables. But then you might as well keep the thing closed source.
Congratulations, you managed to point out a mistake only a day after it's been pointed out by other people.
You must be new here
In my defense, the site is called Gamerdad... and seriously, how can you expect people here to read TFA that carefully anyway?
StegFS http://www.mcdonald.org.uk/StegFS/ might be what you want, don't know if/how well it works though.
Racing to a red light is definitely dumb, but doing 50MPH on a highway not only "annoys" other people, it contibutes towards more congestion and hence more total fuel usage. When you go slow, many drivers behind you will have to slow down if they are unable to pass you smoothly, in turn someone behind them will have to slow down as well, and suddenly you have a wave of slowness propagating back, ending in a traffic jam. So you might just be wasting a lot of other people's gas.
And meanwhile, in Europe, people sometimes still wonder how US-ians can consider $3/gallon "expensive" - and that is true in countries with much lower average income.
Zip files have headers with predictable patterns ("PK" anyone?). Ditto for pretty much any file format. Also, it's not about what file you transfer -- it's about the how. They can selectively cut down ssh and common vpn ports, or they might be just throttling anything non-HTTP.
Maybe we could even have the ability to write the memory conents to disk before turning the computer off, so when turned on again, it would resume where we've left off. I'd call it "hibernation".
yeah, but anyway, in this specific case, how do you guarantee that the gc run doesn't lock up the entire system for half a second (during which the car rams into a wall)?
I'd assume those shaking heads were muttering "geez, another one" rather than "omg wtf how can someone be afraid of it". Claustrophobia isn't all that unheard of, and being shoved into a friggin pipe is somewhat a powerful trigger.
You forgot about the firstborn
It makes little sesnse to me. They're *broadcasting* it, and the football night at the bar already gives them and their advertisers the thing they want most - viewers. I'd have some doubts if it was a paid, cable channel, but in case of a broadcast I see no reason why the bar should pay.
Then again, the law probably disagrees with me, at least where I live. Here the sucky thing is that when a goddamn hairdresser plays some radio in his shop, he has to pay a monthly fee. Not to the radio or the actual performers, but to a "copyright holders association". The money then disappears, as most artists have repeatedly said that the "association" never ever paid them anything. (and I'm refering to the reasonably popular ones that you can actually hear on the radio from time to time)
Better yet, what if someone patents all "evolutionary-designed $DEVICE" (antennas, cables, whatever), making any further attempts to evolve a different version a violation?
You fogot step 0, that is "Find out that the show you're looking for is unavailable for legal download. Half a year later, after it gets realeased on dvd, realize it's only in US/UK/whatever and not in your country. Enjoy the fact that ordering the dvd from overseas will take 2 weeks and cost twice the already outrageous price"
Admins using their admin powers to their advantage is sort-of a natural disaster in a MMOG (for the non-admin players, at least)
I hate internationalized error messages. Unless someone reported the problem in your language, which is usually not the case, you have to first figure out what the error was in English before you can google anything.
foobuntu 7.04 shipped with a bug that made X crash on widescreen laptops with an ati card - a safe mode would have saved them the embarassment of having to tell people "fire up nano, edit xorg.conf, blah blah, and THEN you have the easy-to-use Linux distro!"