Personally, I like to make modifications to and extensions of the games I play. Consoles are proprietary, restricted, and not a suitable environment to develop in.
Most PC games I've seen are open to tinkering. For instance, in Unreal games, there's this great third-party IDE that I use, and changing the game is a simple matter of compiling my Java-like code and sticking it in a directory. Elder Scrolls games are known to include huge, usable toolsets that allow you to change almost any aspect of the content or gameplay.
A lot of other PC games I can think of don't actually give you the tools, but they leave the formats relatively open, so all you need is a third-party extraction/injection tool (which some fan is always kind enough to develop and make available), and you can play with the well-known scripting languages and CSVs to your heart's content. (The 3D models generally remain inaccessible, though.)
Does that mean I must disbelieve in the theory of Intelligent Design? Intelligent Design is not a theory. Theories are supported by experimental evidence. It isn't even a hypothesis unless you can find a way to test it. It appears to be, at best, an ignorant guess.
How exactly is this news? Well, I for one would like to know why diesel-electrics have so far been unsuitable for vehicles other than locomotives, and what the Army does differently in this case.
Long ago, people were scared of "NutraSweet" because of some series of news stories and bad press. So they took the label off of the foods that contain it... just the label though. It's still there. Just look for "aspartame" in the ingredients list. If I recall correctly, the "NutraSweet" label was removed because the patent on NutraSweet expired in 1992, and if you switched to another producer, they (obviously) didn't want you using their trademark.
That's what courts are for, too: To find a way to work in the spirit of a law, not just its letter. The latter became far too common today, with lawyers sniffing for loopholes in the law to hang a case on technicalities which become more and more complicated just for this reason. This is so pervasive that I hadn't even considered that a judge could exercise judgment.
Funny enough, not here, where judges aren't appointed by the president but rather by their peers. Where's "here", by the way?
That would have some really nasty unintended consequences for persons who aren't wealthy corporations. For instance, you can't afford to pay off your neighbor who sued you (and won) after he slipped and fell on your driveway, and as a result, you can't sue to collect long-term disability from your factory employer who was responsible for the loss of both your arms last month. Just a hypothetical (and a run-on sentence), but as with most laws, it would ruin the lives of innocent poor while merely inconveniencing corrupt rich.
The average journalist is not technical enough to convey information from a technical source to a technical audience. And they can't just quote, either. No, they have to "explain" the story in their own words, whether or not they understand it.
The cause of this problem, of course, is that skilled technical people would rather not be journalists. This is why it's so hard to find people to write documentation.
True. I guess he always predicted a Republican victory, and happened to be right most of the time until 2006. Still, I don't think he wants to be seen losing.
any president or PM is relying heavily on research and advice from hundreds of other people. I would argue that there are some exceptions here.
Barak Obama is a good looking, well spoken guy, and it's not hurting him. Actually, Obama's campaign has advised him to to down his oration, because they fear he comes across as too elitist and intellectual.
Rove has said he's leaving politics. He's also got a very good track record in predicting electoral outcomes. You may read it differently, but this tells me that he doesn't want to throw away his reputation as "the Architect" by getting involved in the 2008 elections on the Republican side.
At least yours ran. After re-installing mine (I forget why), I could NOT convince it that it hadn't been pirated. Spent about a day with customer service and it still didn't work. Eventually, I decided to just eat my loss and go with Avast!.
Humans are carbon-neutral. The carbon we exhale comes from the food chain, which gets its carbon when plants absorb it from the air. When you burn fossil fuels, you are taking carbon that has been buried for the last 100 million years and re-introducing it into the atmosphere.
There are even Ext3 implementations available for Windows. I'm gonna have to call bullshit here until I see a link. Are you sure it isn't an ext2 implementation that can open ext3?
I run my whole system (except for C:/Windows, Windows won't boot from ext3) on ext3, and XP seems to run better than it did on NTFS (could it be the automatic defrag?). ext2ifs isn't perfect, though, and sometimes it breaks my backup runs until I fsck all the partitions that Windows uses. No data loss so far, so maybe it just doesn't dot its i's properly.
This site seems to do be a pretty good introduction, and there are whole books about it (none of which I've ever read) if you want to become an expert.
Your long, awkward post demonstrates why we use math (predicate calculus) rather than English for these sorts of things. Unfortunately, I don't think we can embed quantifiers in./ posts.
Assuming we could get intact DNA, have we ever cloned a living animal in the uterus of a closely related species? Beyond that, the hormonal and chemical environment created by the mother has a huge effect on a developing fetus. I wouldn't expect the clone to come out anything like its descendant.
If enough people like this speak out at once, Bush can't possibly smear/fire/silence all of them. The problem is, they're never going to all speak out at once. The one guy with the balls to say something is discredited (even though the President speaks second, his voice is much louder and hits the news first), and coerced to resign quietly.
This is how oppressive regimes throughout history have managed to prevent revolution; stamping out sparks quickly, before they can light fires.
That colorful overlay is exactly what's been missing. I use GUI text-editors for the single reason that EMACS and (especially) VI become unusable when I lose my cheat-sheet.
Those stupid thumb-balls are absolute garbage. They'll destroy your thumb joints faster than carpal tunnel will ruin your wrist. Can you cite a source or two?
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Most PC games I've seen are open to tinkering. For instance, in Unreal games, there's this great third-party IDE that I use, and changing the game is a simple matter of compiling my Java-like code and sticking it in a directory. Elder Scrolls games are known to include huge, usable toolsets that allow you to change almost any aspect of the content or gameplay.
A lot of other PC games I can think of don't actually give you the tools, but they leave the formats relatively open, so all you need is a third-party extraction/injection tool (which some fan is always kind enough to develop and make available), and you can play with the well-known scripting languages and CSVs to your heart's content. (The 3D models generally remain inaccessible, though.)
That would have some really nasty unintended consequences for persons who aren't wealthy corporations. For instance, you can't afford to pay off your neighbor who sued you (and won) after he slipped and fell on your driveway, and as a result, you can't sue to collect long-term disability from your factory employer who was responsible for the loss of both your arms last month. Just a hypothetical (and a run-on sentence), but as with most laws, it would ruin the lives of innocent poor while merely inconveniencing corrupt rich.
The average journalist is not technical enough to convey information from a technical source to a technical audience. And they can't just quote, either. No, they have to "explain" the story in their own words, whether or not they understand it. The cause of this problem, of course, is that skilled technical people would rather not be journalists. This is why it's so hard to find people to write documentation.
True. I guess he always predicted a Republican victory, and happened to be right most of the time until 2006. Still, I don't think he wants to be seen losing.
Rove has said he's leaving politics. He's also got a very good track record in predicting electoral outcomes. You may read it differently, but this tells me that he doesn't want to throw away his reputation as "the Architect" by getting involved in the 2008 elections on the Republican side.
At least yours ran. After re-installing mine (I forget why), I could NOT convince it that it hadn't been pirated. Spent about a day with customer service and it still didn't work. Eventually, I decided to just eat my loss and go with Avast!.
Humans are carbon-neutral. The carbon we exhale comes from the food chain, which gets its carbon when plants absorb it from the air. When you burn fossil fuels, you are taking carbon that has been buried for the last 100 million years and re-introducing it into the atmosphere.
It's called the Golden Rule...
He who has the gold makes the rules.
I run my whole system (except for C:/Windows, Windows won't boot from ext3) on ext3, and XP seems to run better than it did on NTFS (could it be the automatic defrag?). ext2ifs isn't perfect, though, and sometimes it breaks my backup runs until I fsck all the partitions that Windows uses. No data loss so far, so maybe it just doesn't dot its i's properly.
Dude, don't respond to him; you made a perfectly valid point and you only dirty yourself when you sink to attack him.
This site seems to do be a pretty good introduction, and there are whole books about it (none of which I've ever read) if you want to become an expert.
Your long, awkward post demonstrates why we use math (predicate calculus) rather than English for these sorts of things. Unfortunately, I don't think we can embed quantifiers in ./ posts.
Assuming we could get intact DNA, have we ever cloned a living animal in the uterus of a closely related species? Beyond that, the hormonal and chemical environment created by the mother has a huge effect on a developing fetus. I wouldn't expect the clone to come out anything like its descendant.
This is how oppressive regimes throughout history have managed to prevent revolution; stamping out sparks quickly, before they can light fires.
That colorful overlay is exactly what's been missing. I use GUI text-editors for the single reason that EMACS and (especially) VI become unusable when I lose my cheat-sheet.
President Cheney.