I do install games ahead of time, but not Steam games. I have a network booted Linux-based system, so everybody just plugs in his PC and can start playing.
The biggest problem I have with Steam are LAN parties. Or the lack of such possibility with a single account (=single copy of a game).
Some games can be played via LAN in offline mode, but it's not guaranteed to work. And even if you convince all your friends to create a Steam account and buy the game, you'll spend the evening downloading N copies of the game once they come to your place. Fail.
-SVN allows different people to work on different directories individually, GIT doesn't.
The idea of Git eludes you. You don't structure Git projects in a giant directory tree.
-SVN has fine grained permissions, access and authentication controls, very useful when parts of your project (ie, APIs) are under NDA or you don't want them to leak.
Jokes aside, the linking is what worries me the most. Do you really think that the freedom of speech should be limited to such extent, that you're not even allowed to tell someone "there are people selling drugs in the XYZ street"?
Because that's what linking is all about. Telling people where they can find stuff.
(I am the author of Darling.) And you're correct. Supporting PPC is on my TODO list and will not be that difficult I'll just have to port the few assembly routines.
Because they voluntarily agreed to this under certain conditions. You see, they actually worked together with privacy organizations on this. And now, MS is violating exactly these conditions.
You're completely missing the point.
Should Microsoft really have do-not-track on by default, the advertising networks will be likely to ignore this HTTP header altogether. So it won't harm any advertising businesses, only the users. The whole effort would be lost.
but you might not want the location broadcast world wide
Sorry, where can I download the complete database of AP locations? Because as far as I know, the database "read access" works the other way around. Your phone submits a list of APs around you to Google's servers and in turn you get your approximate location.
I don't understand what the problem here is.
This has actually been long known. Whoever sends a complaint against some files hosted at RapidShare receives a list of IP addresses and times of the upload *without even asking for them*.
But what is better for the society? A criminal just getting older inside a penitentiary and or a criminal doing something useful he's actually good at? I think the latter.
As Reiser vows to work in the prison in order to provide for his children, I wouldn't discard the filesystem yet:-)
JFS seems to be a good alternative, but unfortunately it doesn't allow shrinking, at least not on Linux. If I were you, I'd give it some time, because there seem to be new interesting filesystems on the horizon (brtfs, ext4). However, if you really need shrinking and you need a new FS now, give ext4 a whirl. It's not a production-ready FS yet, but it's almost there.
For those of you who are looking for an English translation of the Czech article describing all in detail, this is a summary of all important points:
First, they wanted to refuse his [the customer's] request, giving various excuses (hardware-software is non-separable; you should contact Microsoft; you should contact the retailer; the maniuplation fees are as high as the price of the license).
(The Microsoft representative cited the license, saying that only the vendor is responsible for any kind of reimbursement.)
Then he managed to get his request through: the woman from the helpdesk refused to give him the e-mail address of the manager in charge of such matters, however she offered that she would forward the e-mail to him.
The customer threatened to take legal action against them, to file complaints with local customer protection authorities etc. and he received no response for a month. He also listed several foreign cases where the license costs were refunded, including a case with Lenovo Germany.
But then, all of sudden, a reply came with an offer made just for him. He would have to pledge not to activate the Windows license, erase the existing Windows installation, send a copy of the receipt along with the Certificate of Validity and sign the NDA.
The article was published in English, because it was found interesting for people outside the Czech Republic. We have published several other articles in English so far, typically interviews, but it's always an exception.
I am literally shocked that the UK would extradite its _own citizen_ to a foreign country.
In the Czech Republic it is guaranteed by law that no such thing is possible, ever. You motherland should protect you, not the opposite!
This largely depends on where you live. For instance here in Central Europe almost nobody gives a damn about OS X, but Linux is gaining popularity. The reason is simple. You can get Linux for free and you can run it virtually anywhere you wish. This is a state that OS X is unlikely to attain. Especially when Mac computers are almost twice as expensive as regular computers.
Oh dear, don't let this happen in your country! Once they start receiving money, they'll ask for more. In the Czech Republic the music industry receives levy from blank CDs/DVDs, memory cards, hard drives and (heads up gentlemen!) from printers.
And it all started with only blank media being "taxed", the others are new additions.
I have honestly *never* heard of any bad influence of pornography (only from the Jehova people and some puritan Christians) - and I am part of the Western society. I consider pornography as something that can provide people some sexual relief (I am referring to masturbation) and can bring new ideas to sexual life between partners.
Of course, everything can serve bad purposes and pornography can ruin one's life if it becomes the only thing he knows. But that is quite an extreme point of view. Censorship (or "filtering") has never helped anything - in the end, every smart kid is probably able to get around it with some little effort...
Can anybody tell me why should the pornography be considered harmful for children? Are there any studies that prove it?
As a child I've seen porno many times and I wouldn't say it affected me in any way... It just makes you wonder about things you haven't been thinking about before and you're not about to fully comprehend for a while. But I think that's pretty much one of the points of the childhood.
Now excuse me, because I gotta go to the park attack random women (just kidding:-)).
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I do install games ahead of time, but not Steam games. I have a network booted Linux-based system, so everybody just plugs in his PC and can start playing.
The biggest problem I have with Steam are LAN parties. Or the lack of such possibility with a single account (=single copy of a game). Some games can be played via LAN in offline mode, but it's not guaranteed to work. And even if you convince all your friends to create a Steam account and buy the game, you'll spend the evening downloading N copies of the game once they come to your place. Fail.
Never seen a gas station with such a restriction. I typically see "into approved cans only", which means cans made for that use.
-SVN allows different people to work on different directories individually, GIT doesn't.
The idea of Git eludes you. You don't structure Git projects in a giant directory tree.
-SVN has fine grained permissions, access and authentication controls, very useful when parts of your project (ie, APIs) are under NDA or you don't want them to leak.
Have you ever heard about Gitolite?
Well, too bad the government thinks it *knows* what's good for us when blocking "illegal" websites.
TPB hosts none of the content, but I suppose you already know that.
Now I wonder how this will play with website blocking in the UK, Italy, Denmark, ...
Jokes aside, the linking is what worries me the most. Do you really think that the freedom of speech should be limited to such extent, that you're not even allowed to tell someone "there are people selling drugs in the XYZ street"? Because that's what linking is all about. Telling people where they can find stuff.
(I am the author of Darling.) And you're correct. Supporting PPC is on my TODO list and will not be that difficult I'll just have to port the few assembly routines.
How do you even prove that there was an illegal activity a certain IP address took part in? Logs? Hell, I can create as many logs as I can.
Nothing. But no guarantees may still be better than an outright "no".
Because they voluntarily agreed to this under certain conditions. You see, they actually worked together with privacy organizations on this. And now, MS is violating exactly these conditions.
You're completely missing the point. Should Microsoft really have do-not-track on by default, the advertising networks will be likely to ignore this HTTP header altogether. So it won't harm any advertising businesses, only the users. The whole effort would be lost.
but you might not want the location broadcast world wide
Sorry, where can I download the complete database of AP locations? Because as far as I know, the database "read access" works the other way around. Your phone submits a list of APs around you to Google's servers and in turn you get your approximate location. I don't understand what the problem here is.
This has actually been long known. Whoever sends a complaint against some files hosted at RapidShare receives a list of IP addresses and times of the upload *without even asking for them*.
But what is better for the society? A criminal just getting older inside a penitentiary and or a criminal doing something useful he's actually good at? I think the latter.
As Reiser vows to work in the prison in order to provide for his children, I wouldn't discard the filesystem yet :-)
JFS seems to be a good alternative, but unfortunately it doesn't allow shrinking, at least not on Linux. If I were you, I'd give it some time, because there seem to be new interesting filesystems on the horizon (brtfs, ext4). However, if you really need shrinking and you need a new FS now, give ext4 a whirl. It's not a production-ready FS yet, but it's almost there.
First, they wanted to refuse his [the customer's] request, giving various excuses (hardware-software is non-separable; you should contact Microsoft; you should contact the retailer; the maniuplation fees are as high as the price of the license).
(The Microsoft representative cited the license, saying that only the vendor is responsible for any kind of reimbursement.)
Then he managed to get his request through: the woman from the helpdesk refused to give him the e-mail address of the manager in charge of such matters, however she offered that she would forward the e-mail to him.
The customer threatened to take legal action against them, to file complaints with local customer protection authorities etc. and he received no response for a month. He also listed several foreign cases where the license costs were refunded, including a case with Lenovo Germany.
But then, all of sudden, a reply came with an offer made just for him. He would have to pledge not to activate the Windows license, erase the existing Windows installation, send a copy of the receipt along with the Certificate of Validity and sign the NDA.
The article was published in English, because it was found interesting for people outside the Czech Republic. We have published several other articles in English so far, typically interviews, but it's always an exception.
I am literally shocked that the UK would extradite its _own citizen_ to a foreign country. In the Czech Republic it is guaranteed by law that no such thing is possible, ever. You motherland should protect you, not the opposite!
This largely depends on where you live. For instance here in Central Europe almost nobody gives a damn about OS X, but Linux is gaining popularity. The reason is simple. You can get Linux for free and you can run it virtually anywhere you wish. This is a state that OS X is unlikely to attain. Especially when Mac computers are almost twice as expensive as regular computers.
Oh dear, don't let this happen in your country! Once they start receiving money, they'll ask for more. In the Czech Republic the music industry receives levy from blank CDs/DVDs, memory cards, hard drives and (heads up gentlemen!) from printers. And it all started with only blank media being "taxed", the others are new additions.
Does copyleft count? :-)
Of course, everything can serve bad purposes and pornography can ruin one's life if it becomes the only thing he knows. But that is quite an extreme point of view. Censorship (or "filtering") has never helped anything - in the end, every smart kid is probably able to get around it with some little effort...
As a child I've seen porno many times and I wouldn't say it affected me in any way... It just makes you wonder about things you haven't been thinking about before and you're not about to fully comprehend for a while. But I think that's pretty much one of the points of the childhood.
Now excuse me, because I gotta go to the park attack random women (just kidding :-)).