Of course you can use it, you just can't cite it, because it isn't a source. It's an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles consist entirely of information that stems from other sources. This makes Wikipedia a useful tool to locate relevant sources of information on a subject you want to learn more about or write about.
They're not targeted at the poorest people, they're targeted at people who have their basic survival needs met, and now need education to become more prosperous.
They forgot to mention that most Microsoft products come with their own security problems built in!
Of course, it is entirely possible that the pirate sellers add some extra nasty stuff to their warez, I wouldn't know, I've never bought software from pirates.
Well, until recently, I never saw DoW in a store. Only since a few months do I see Dark Crusade for sale. Also, almost nobody I tell about it in real life has heard about it (and those are people who play way more games than I do). That's why I think it's kind of obscure, at least in my area.
I'll have to check the CoH demo some time. I wonder if my computer will run it...
Funny, the games on the list that I played, all worked fine on Windows 98SE, even though at least one of them (Civ IV) said it required Windows 2000/XP. It's very stable on 98 for me.
You wouldn't think I'd keep falling for the "we'll fix the issues in Windows this time, really" trick after the 95->98 transition, huh? Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... can't get fooled again!
It seems like with Windows, you can choose either crashes (9x) or viruses (nt/2k/xp). I much prefer crashes, especially since I only use Windows for games nowadays (when I have time).
I guess I'll have to get something newer (or get Wine/Cedega working) when I get a computer with more than 512 megs, though...
It's still useful if you're only using it to read a limited kind of files, such as configuration files that were generated by the program itself. Of course, when the program needs to parse XML files generated by other programs, a more comprehensive module is needed.
I haven't played Total Annihilation, though I've seen it mentioned on Slashdot before. I have something to pitch in here too, though, about another not-that-well-known RTS game, which I think is cool.
Dawn of War has no resource collection like you usually see in RTS games, instead, there are Strategic Points (plus some other similar things) on the map, and if your troops occupy them, you get more of the Requisition resource which you use to get more troops and buildings.
The Power resource is generated by power generators, which are buildings that you can build in your base (or on special places on the map).
Buildings are built by builder units, which build buildings and sometimes repair buildings and vehicles, but they don't gather any resources, so you usually only need a couple of them.
Also, instead of controlling individual units, most units are part of a squad, and you control the entire squad as if it is one unit. Characters (which don't level up like in Warcraft III, but can usually be upgraded) and vehicles are an exception, you control them individually, although most characters can be attached to a squad.
Squads can be individually upgraded, i.e. you can equip some of the members with special weapons, and you can even increase the number of squad members, so you don't need to produce individual units in your barracks and them move them to the front line, you can "build" the reinforcements right inside the combat.
All in all this makes the game much more action-oriented, with much less time wasted on resource collection and base building.
There's a demo, be sure to watch the intro movie, it's amazing. If you want to buy it, I recommend getting the Dawn of War Anthology set, which includes the two expansions. The second expansion is almost as expensive as the Anthology set, and includes a cool campaign, in which you can conquer the planet, and you decide which territories to conquer. The campaigns in the standard game and the first expansion aren't that cool.
I can't say much about the multiplayer quality, but there is at least one "cheese" map available, I'm sure you'll know it when you see it.
That's because if you mention a moderation category (such as Insightful) anywhere in your post, regardless of its relevance, it increases the chance of that post being modded as such.
I had never heard of this author or philosophy before I started reading Slashdot, and last week, I noticed Atlas Shrugged in the bookstore, and I remembered that it was that book that sparked so much controversy here.
I was wondering whether the author was actually endorsing the objectivist philosophy, or just writing about it because it made for a good story.
I think it's a twisted view of things, to see charity as evil. It's actually a kind of insurance (distributing risk), and has been a powerful survival mechanism for people for millennia.
No, spammers are stupid, so you'd have to shoot quite a lot of them to get the message home. Not that anybody here would find anything wrong with that, of course.
Odd. In the thread above, it was explained that the Randists object to FORCED charity, yet these people objected to your totally voluntary fund-raiser. Is the explanation given in the thread above erroneous, or were those people a little too far to the left of the IQ curve?
Also, are those logic holes in Rand's books themselves, or in the interpretations of those who seem to see her views as some kind of infallible truth?
There's a world of difference between glorifying crime (and encouraging other people to engage in it) and saying that you think this crime should become legal.
Yeah, this is probably nothing more than Google building datacenters cheaply (by building near powerplants they can probably get a discount on the electricity, because there's little power wasted on long wires), and buying dark fiber to connect them to eachother.
Google is full of smart people who are developing interesting applications that require huge amounts of computing resources, and that's exactly what they're building.
I don't see how this is related to bandwidth use of people, and to assume so seems rather tinfoil-hattish.
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If he's an objectivist, isn't it hypocritical to ask for donations?
Of course you can use it, you just can't cite it, because it isn't a source. It's an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles consist entirely of information that stems from other sources. This makes Wikipedia a useful tool to locate relevant sources of information on a subject you want to learn more about or write about.
There's a Reply link in the floating thingy.
They're not targeted at the poorest people, they're targeted at people who have their basic survival needs met, and now need education to become more prosperous.
You misunderstand. There is an official Ubuntu package that contains the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
They forgot to mention that most Microsoft products come with their own security problems built in!
Of course, it is entirely possible that the pirate sellers add some extra nasty stuff to their warez, I wouldn't know, I've never bought software from pirates.
Some would say that this has already happened.
They had that in an episode of Sliders (back before it started to suck).
Speak for yourself!
Eh, plenty of people ignore ACs.
Well, until recently, I never saw DoW in a store. Only since a few months do I see Dark Crusade for sale. Also, almost nobody I tell about it in real life has heard about it (and those are people who play way more games than I do). That's why I think it's kind of obscure, at least in my area.
I'll have to check the CoH demo some time. I wonder if my computer will run it...
No, I only run it to play games now and then, and then it's always behind a NAT router.
Funny, the games on the list that I played, all worked fine on Windows 98SE, even though at least one of them (Civ IV) said it required Windows 2000/XP. It's very stable on 98 for me.
You wouldn't think I'd keep falling for the "we'll fix the issues in Windows this time, really" trick after the 95->98 transition, huh? Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... can't get fooled again!
It seems like with Windows, you can choose either crashes (9x) or viruses (nt/2k/xp). I much prefer crashes, especially since I only use Windows for games nowadays (when I have time).
I guess I'll have to get something newer (or get Wine/Cedega working) when I get a computer with more than 512 megs, though...
It's still useful if you're only using it to read a limited kind of files, such as configuration files that were generated by the program itself. Of course, when the program needs to parse XML files generated by other programs, a more comprehensive module is needed.
I haven't played Total Annihilation, though I've seen it mentioned on Slashdot before. I have something to pitch in here too, though, about another not-that-well-known RTS game, which I think is cool.
Dawn of War has no resource collection like you usually see in RTS games, instead, there are Strategic Points (plus some other similar things) on the map, and if your troops occupy them, you get more of the Requisition resource which you use to get more troops and buildings.
The Power resource is generated by power generators, which are buildings that you can build in your base (or on special places on the map).
Buildings are built by builder units, which build buildings and sometimes repair buildings and vehicles, but they don't gather any resources, so you usually only need a couple of them.
Also, instead of controlling individual units, most units are part of a squad, and you control the entire squad as if it is one unit. Characters (which don't level up like in Warcraft III, but can usually be upgraded) and vehicles are an exception, you control them individually, although most characters can be attached to a squad.
Squads can be individually upgraded, i.e. you can equip some of the members with special weapons, and you can even increase the number of squad members, so you don't need to produce individual units in your barracks and them move them to the front line, you can "build" the reinforcements right inside the combat.
All in all this makes the game much more action-oriented, with much less time wasted on resource collection and base building.
There's a demo, be sure to watch the intro movie, it's amazing. If you want to buy it, I recommend getting the Dawn of War Anthology set, which includes the two expansions. The second expansion is almost as expensive as the Anthology set, and includes a cool campaign, in which you can conquer the planet, and you decide which territories to conquer. The campaigns in the standard game and the first expansion aren't that cool.
I can't say much about the multiplayer quality, but there is at least one "cheese" map available, I'm sure you'll know it when you see it.
That's because if you mention a moderation category (such as Insightful) anywhere in your post, regardless of its relevance, it increases the chance of that post being modded as such.
Thank you for your reply.
I had never heard of this author or philosophy before I started reading Slashdot, and last week, I noticed Atlas Shrugged in the bookstore, and I remembered that it was that book that sparked so much controversy here.
I was wondering whether the author was actually endorsing the objectivist philosophy, or just writing about it because it made for a good story.
I think it's a twisted view of things, to see charity as evil. It's actually a kind of insurance (distributing risk), and has been a powerful survival mechanism for people for millennia.
GPP is referring to the concept of software patents, not patents in general, so GPP is against software patents, not against patents in general.
And if that part that isn't so fun is so bad that people are willing to pay other people to play it for them, something's seems wrong to me.
Retarded I get, but how is it racist?
No, spammers are stupid, so you'd have to shoot quite a lot of them to get the message home. Not that anybody here would find anything wrong with that, of course.
Yet how many people would understand the spoken language of people only a few centuries ago? Middle English, Old English, Latin?
Odd. In the thread above, it was explained that the Randists object to FORCED charity, yet these people objected to your totally voluntary fund-raiser. Is the explanation given in the thread above erroneous, or were those people a little too far to the left of the IQ curve?
Also, are those logic holes in Rand's books themselves, or in the interpretations of those who seem to see her views as some kind of infallible truth?
There's a world of difference between glorifying crime (and encouraging other people to engage in it) and saying that you think this crime should become legal.
Yeah, this is probably nothing more than Google building datacenters cheaply (by building near powerplants they can probably get a discount on the electricity, because there's little power wasted on long wires), and buying dark fiber to connect them to eachother.
Google is full of smart people who are developing interesting applications that require huge amounts of computing resources, and that's exactly what they're building.
I don't see how this is related to bandwidth use of people, and to assume so seems rather tinfoil-hattish.