The most common "howto" system on Unix/Linux systems is looking at the "man" pages. Usually you can see them just by typing 'man ', e.g. 'man tar'. They can be kind of cryptic sometimes, but they should always have some description of the command line options (your x,v, and f).
Why do you have to compare games to the greatest playwright in history? Plenty of plays and poems and paintings produced over millenia have been long forgotten, only the finest last. Video games have been around for a few decades, why expect the Hamlet of video games to have been made by now? Were the finest works of literature written 20 years after the invention of the written language? (The answer is no by the way.)
This story gets to the heart of the greatest flaw in MMORPGs, the time sink phenomenon. Blizzard designs a game that is in essence just neverending repetition. They then say: "We demand that you pay full attention when you are performing mind-numbingly repetetive tasks!" I know you can't allow bots, but come on, this was not botting. Who hasn't stood in front of a low-level monster and whacked away to level a weapon skill. He just found a particularly efficient way to do it. I used to play the game all the time, but I now only help my guild raid occasionally. I can't waste my brain any more, I think a little of it dies every time I play WoW.
Are you able to upload and watch videos on your iAudio U3 using Linux? I have this crazy pipe dream that I could load up BBC World News (that I recorded the night before using MythTV) onto a portable player using Linux then watch it on the bus.
Sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strangers all staring in silence (hopefully) at a screen is not social interaction. Unless you are making out in the back row. Seriously though, yeah, maybe you go to the movie and talk about it with friends afterward, but you can do that at home, and discuss the movie during watching as well in that case.
They want to punish people for paying off their credit cards because Joe Biden (D-MBNA) and his ilk are bought and paid for by the credit card cartels.
I completely disagree with you on the point that there is no such thing as a "natural" monopoly. It is a feature of capitalism that monopolies form without government interference. Now the opposite can also be true, the government can act in such a way as to preserve monopolies as well, but without intervention they most certainly do form on their own (see late-19th / early-20th century US economic history).
I agree, it's too much money, and for a compressed version at that. Basically the music industry has said: "Hey, we've reduced our distribution costs considerably, and to celebrate we're going to give you your music with lower fidelity and DRM tacked on for the same price as you used to pay. Enjoy!"
This looks to me to be another hyped up nano-invention. A building with metal walls will do just as good a job (if not better) shielding RF than using a paint that has copper in it.
Sorry, had to get that off my chest, wasn't particularly directed at you, just a major pet peeve of mine.
I'm just more than a little weary of people flying planes into buildings thinking it's their ticket to heaven, people killing each other over minute theological differences, violence against and repression of women and gays based on ancient texts, politicians shoving religion down our throats (including adding 'under God' to the pledge of allegiance in 1954), the most powerful man in the world thinking he talks directly to an entity which as far as I'm concerned doesn't exist, etc, I could go on.
I've heard this argument before and it doesn't wash. People say "Science is just another religIon! Your clergy just wear lab coats." I call BS. ReligIon is institutionalized mythological dogma. There are thousands of different religIons with a thousand different "truths." These "truths" are bounded only by the human imagination, as such they are interesting but meaningless, except perhaps in a sociological or philosophical sense. Science is a method by which ACTUAL truth, that is to say, the set of fundamental physical laws which all existence must obey, is uncovered. Science changes and improves as humanity comes to understand these physical laws more and more. ReligIon seeks to impose its contrived notions of existence, even when these notions are completely refuted by ACTUAL physical reality (e.g. the Creationism vs. Evolution argument.) It remains stubbornly constant, like a petulant child, against the weight of logic and observation. Science and religIon are polar opposites. I hope that one day religIon will be completely rejected (but not forgotten), humanity will be much better off without it.
Looking at the "Hi-Fi" unit it instantly occurred to me that this thing has GOT to sound better than the similar crap that Bose produces. Just looking at the speakers and ports I'd say, at least mechanically if not electronically, it might have pretty good sound for the size. I still think it's sad that despite the march of technology in terms of computational power, "old school" concerns like sound quality are often neglected.
You outlined my own thoughts on the issue almost perfectly. $0.99 a song can be more than the cost of a CD depending on the number of songs on the CD. And it's compressed at an inadequate 128kbs. And I'd have to deal with the DRM garbage. Sorry Apple, I ain't buyin' it.
Our family doesn't need computer games. We perform in a traveling stage show. It never fails to bring us closer together. We call ourselves "The Aristocrats."
I think the letter sent by Lambda Legal was a reasonable and measured response to Blizzard's actions. I'm glad that Blizzard has reversed its warning of the player.
I'm primarily a PC gamer, though I am exposed every once in a while to a console game. I remember playing one of the Metal Gear Solid games once. I started the game, sat through a 3 minute cut scene, played for literally 15 seconds, then sat through another cut scene. I simply quit playing. It was a bad movie interspersed with a bad video game.
In all seriousness, I've learned a lot of actual information from games myself, though not equally from all games. Playing the WWII Russian flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik inspired me to learn a great deal about WWII-era planes and technology as well as the history of the conflict, and Hearts of Iron taught me about the geography and colonization of that time period as well. On the other hand, Half-Life and CounterStrike, while great games, taught me virtually nothing, except the names of various firearms (and even those are fake in the newer CS).
Actually, without radically altering the shape of the missile, you wouldn't be able to reduce it's radar cross-section like that. The Stealth Bomber and Fighter are shaped with right angles which reduces the return radar signal significantly. They are also coated with a special material, which could be applied to a missile, but that alone would only do so much. That said the entire anti-missile idea is a total waste of money, period. The return-strike deterrent worked for the entire cold war against ICBM attacks, it will continue to work to prevent this kind of attack forever. Only a country that wants to commit total suicide of all of its people and all of its infrastructure and history would attack the United States with ICBM's, therefore no one will do it, even a destabilized Iran for example. Non-state entities are a different story, but they will never have ICBMs.
Blizzard itself is not being agnostic about the issue, it has an anti-harrasment policy for various groups (religious, racial, sexual), and rightly so in my opinion. This sentence is ripped verbatim from the Blizzard in-game harrassment policy found here: http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01315 p#sexualorientation
"Insultingly refers to any aspect of sexual orientation pertaining to themselves or other players."
Should Blizzard censure itself for even mentioning sexual orientation in its behavior policy? After all, couldn't the behavior policy itself incite some 13-year-old to call Blizzard "gay"? And according to Blizzard's logic, Blizzard would be to blame for it.
Just to clarify, the guild in question was not recruiting only LGBT players, it was recruiting people friendly to LGBT people. I said it before on the last thread about this topic, Blizzard has a policy against descrimination based on sexuality, and this guild was essentially recruiting people who followed this rule. Blizzard then penalized the guild for emphasizing one of Blizzard's own rules. It's ridiculous on its face.
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The most common "howto" system on Unix/Linux systems is looking at the "man" pages. Usually you can see them just by typing 'man ', e.g. 'man tar'. They can be kind of cryptic sometimes, but they should always have some description of the command line options (your x,v, and f).
Why do you have to compare games to the greatest playwright in history? Plenty of plays and poems and paintings produced over millenia have been long forgotten, only the finest last. Video games have been around for a few decades, why expect the Hamlet of video games to have been made by now? Were the finest works of literature written 20 years after the invention of the written language? (The answer is no by the way.)
This story gets to the heart of the greatest flaw in MMORPGs, the time sink phenomenon. Blizzard designs a game that is in essence just neverending repetition. They then say: "We demand that you pay full attention when you are performing mind-numbingly repetetive tasks!" I know you can't allow bots, but come on, this was not botting. Who hasn't stood in front of a low-level monster and whacked away to level a weapon skill. He just found a particularly efficient way to do it. I used to play the game all the time, but I now only help my guild raid occasionally. I can't waste my brain any more, I think a little of it dies every time I play WoW.
[Ironforge - Trade Channel] xengzi: u buy [Double-Edged Sword] 600g?
Are you able to upload and watch videos on your iAudio U3 using Linux? I have this crazy pipe dream that I could load up BBC World News (that I recorded the night before using MythTV) onto a portable player using Linux then watch it on the bus.
Sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strangers all staring in silence (hopefully) at a screen is not social interaction. Unless you are making out in the back row. Seriously though, yeah, maybe you go to the movie and talk about it with friends afterward, but you can do that at home, and discuss the movie during watching as well in that case.
They want to punish people for paying off their credit cards because Joe Biden (D-MBNA) and his ilk are bought and paid for by the credit card cartels.
I'm kinda disappointed Boong-Ga Boong-Ga didn't make the list.
I completely disagree with you on the point that there is no such thing as a "natural" monopoly. It is a feature of capitalism that monopolies form without government interference. Now the opposite can also be true, the government can act in such a way as to preserve monopolies as well, but without intervention they most certainly do form on their own (see late-19th / early-20th century US economic history).
Thanks, I just shot myself in the head.
I agree, it's too much money, and for a compressed version at that. Basically the music industry has said: "Hey, we've reduced our distribution costs considerably, and to celebrate we're going to give you your music with lower fidelity and DRM tacked on for the same price as you used to pay. Enjoy!"
This looks to me to be another hyped up nano-invention. A building with metal walls will do just as good a job (if not better) shielding RF than using a paint that has copper in it.
Sorry, had to get that off my chest, wasn't particularly directed at you, just a major pet peeve of mine.
I'm just more than a little weary of people flying planes into buildings thinking it's their ticket to heaven, people killing each other over minute theological differences, violence against and repression of women and gays based on ancient texts, politicians shoving religion down our throats (including adding 'under God' to the pledge of allegiance in 1954), the most powerful man in the world thinking he talks directly to an entity which as far as I'm concerned doesn't exist, etc, I could go on.
I've heard this argument before and it doesn't wash. People say "Science is just another religIon! Your clergy just wear lab coats." I call BS. ReligIon is institutionalized mythological dogma. There are thousands of different religIons with a thousand different "truths." These "truths" are bounded only by the human imagination, as such they are interesting but meaningless, except perhaps in a sociological or philosophical sense. Science is a method by which ACTUAL truth, that is to say, the set of fundamental physical laws which all existence must obey, is uncovered. Science changes and improves as humanity comes to understand these physical laws more and more. ReligIon seeks to impose its contrived notions of existence, even when these notions are completely refuted by ACTUAL physical reality (e.g. the Creationism vs. Evolution argument.) It remains stubbornly constant, like a petulant child, against the weight of logic and observation. Science and religIon are polar opposites. I hope that one day religIon will be completely rejected (but not forgotten), humanity will be much better off without it.
Smart smart smart smart smart!
Looking at the "Hi-Fi" unit it instantly occurred to me that this thing has GOT to sound better than the similar crap that Bose produces. Just looking at the speakers and ports I'd say, at least mechanically if not electronically, it might have pretty good sound for the size. I still think it's sad that despite the march of technology in terms of computational power, "old school" concerns like sound quality are often neglected.
You outlined my own thoughts on the issue almost perfectly. $0.99 a song can be more than the cost of a CD depending on the number of songs on the CD. And it's compressed at an inadequate 128kbs. And I'd have to deal with the DRM garbage. Sorry Apple, I ain't buyin' it.
Joule-seconds...That's the dimension of Planck's constant - not meters-squared-kilogram per second
They are equivalent:
Joule -> kg m^2 / s^2
Plank's constant = h
Frequency of EM radiation = f -> 1/s
photon energy (Joules) = h * f
Since the unit of f is Hz or 1/s, Plank's constant can be represented with the units J*s or equivalently kg m^2 / s.
QED
Our family doesn't need computer games. We perform in a traveling stage show. It never fails to bring us closer together. We call ourselves "The Aristocrats."
I think the letter sent by Lambda Legal was a reasonable and measured response to Blizzard's actions. I'm glad that Blizzard has reversed its warning of the player.
I'm primarily a PC gamer, though I am exposed every once in a while to a console game. I remember playing one of the Metal Gear Solid games once. I started the game, sat through a 3 minute cut scene, played for literally 15 seconds, then sat through another cut scene. I simply quit playing. It was a bad movie interspersed with a bad video game.
In all seriousness, I've learned a lot of actual information from games myself, though not equally from all games. Playing the WWII Russian flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik inspired me to learn a great deal about WWII-era planes and technology as well as the history of the conflict, and Hearts of Iron taught me about the geography and colonization of that time period as well. On the other hand, Half-Life and CounterStrike, while great games, taught me virtually nothing, except the names of various firearms (and even those are fake in the newer CS).
Actually, without radically altering the shape of the missile, you wouldn't be able to reduce it's radar cross-section like that. The Stealth Bomber and Fighter are shaped with right angles which reduces the return radar signal significantly. They are also coated with a special material, which could be applied to a missile, but that alone would only do so much. That said the entire anti-missile idea is a total waste of money, period. The return-strike deterrent worked for the entire cold war against ICBM attacks, it will continue to work to prevent this kind of attack forever. Only a country that wants to commit total suicide of all of its people and all of its infrastructure and history would attack the United States with ICBM's, therefore no one will do it, even a destabilized Iran for example. Non-state entities are a different story, but they will never have ICBMs.
Blizzard itself is not being agnostic about the issue, it has an anti-harrasment policy for various groups (religious, racial, sexual), and rightly so in my opinion. This sentence is ripped verbatim from the Blizzard in-game harrassment policy found here: http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01315 p#sexualorientation
"Insultingly refers to any aspect of sexual orientation pertaining to themselves or other players."
Should Blizzard censure itself for even mentioning sexual orientation in its behavior policy? After all, couldn't the behavior policy itself incite some 13-year-old to call Blizzard "gay"? And according to Blizzard's logic, Blizzard would be to blame for it.
Just to clarify, the guild in question was not recruiting only LGBT players, it was recruiting people friendly to LGBT people. I said it before on the last thread about this topic, Blizzard has a policy against descrimination based on sexuality, and this guild was essentially recruiting people who followed this rule. Blizzard then penalized the guild for emphasizing one of Blizzard's own rules. It's ridiculous on its face.