I play Nethack, FreeCiv and Morrowind (and very rarely, Oblivion). I rotate them out as I get bored with each game. For the Oblivion series, the player add-ons are what kept me hooked - there are some truly awesome player expansions out there, where the player is able to make a contribution in the first place.
I browsed at 4+ comments, and didn't see any responses like this:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seems pretty simple?
I wonder when General Alexander will be facing charges?
From the FA: "Viewing ads is part of the deal if users want content to be free, says Freitas. The use of ad blocking software breaks that implicit contract."
I love this argument. I recall a high-profile libertarian making the same argument (after which I stopped going to his site). Contract? Tell you what - put your site behind a password-protected page and I'd agree about the contract. But if your site is publicly accessible there is no contract and you know it.
I posted this the last time this topic arose. Whereas Warg has not yet faced trial (thus guilt in doubt), convicted war criminal Albert Speer had access to books (and was allowed to write) after being convicted. Fascinating difference in treatment.
" Everyone expected even greater things from my generation. We totally let them down...."
Yes, you did. The baby boomer generation is the most selfish generation in American history. You have left the country in worse shape than you found it.
The most recent two presidents are from your generation, and they are arguably the worst in American history.
But we see no apologies. Instead, we finally see attempt at marijuana legalization, to lessen the pain as you head to your graves.
Speer served 20 years and was given more freedom in his confinement then Gottfrid, who has not been found guilty by Sweden.
From wiki: "With the draft memoir complete and clandestinely transmitted, Speer sought a new project. He found one while taking his daily exercise, walking in circles around the prison yard. Measuring the path's distance carefully, Speer set out to walk the distance from Berlin to Heidelberg. He then expanded his idea into a worldwide journey, visualizing the places he was "traveling" through while walking the path around the prison yard. Speer ordered guidebooks and other materials about the nations through which he imagined he was passing, so as to envisage as accurate a picture as possible.[117] Meticulously calculating every meter traveled, and mapping distances to the real-world geography, he began in northern Germany, passed through Asia by a southern route before entering Siberia, then crossed the Bering Strait and continued southwards, finally ending his sentence 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Guadalajara, Mexico."
OK, I'm a little disappointed. I'm running XP, and run by default in non-admin mode. The install MSI package required admin rights to install, and now, after waiting about 2 hours for the 4 gig download, it appears the game by default also requires admin access?????
Come on, in the 21st century games running on Microsoft operating systems should *not* require admin privileges. Please fix.
The Forbes article states "Under current regulations, electricity generated by renewable energy resources are given priority access to the grid. As a result, electricity generated by coal and gas-fired plants is only used “to make up for any shortfalls,” according to the AFP."
Does this mean that the nuclear stations have to divert their power when the wind picks up or the sun comes out? I'm certainly no expert, but I thought in the US it is the opposite, so that the wind stations have to go on bypass and the dams/nuclear stations have priority. Or is the Forbes article simply incorrect?
"What's the advantage of having getters and setters vs. just accessing the variable directly?"
A few replies listing the usual reason, but as a c# programmer w/ the current automated get/set in Visual Studio, I have to ask the parent's question. Currently Visual Studio will create auto get/set if you do something like int foo {get; set; } that creates "anonymous" get/set functions. The problem, though, is you can't get at them!!! So, if you wanted to modify the just the setter you can't do int foo {get; } and write your own set function.
So, I guess I'm in the same boat - if you've got a get/set that can't be easily modified, why not just allow access to the variable directly?
WIth food inflation, the producers have been downsizing for quite some time in attempt to mask inflation. For example, coffee, chocolate and ice cream used to be sold by the pound. No longer - now it is something like 12 oz. Same with many cereals.
My modest proposal: switch all food to metric. The consumer confusion will mask the gigantic rip-off. But, we'll finally be on metric!
Sorry, accidentally hit redundant instead of insightful -- undoing moderation -- I wish there was some confirmation before hitting a negative moderation!
Don't know how this got moderated to 5.. As the original posted observed, admin access *is* required to install Java updates.
I run XP as a non-admin myself, but in order to run certain programs (DVD burning software is the primary one) I have to run the program as administrator.
I've done this. Set your parent up in XP with a non-admin account. Ensure you can have her sign in as admin when necessary. Worst case, she signs in as admin and there's a big icon on the desktop (make the background color red or something to make ti really obvious) for running joinme session, and nothing else. On her default desktop, all the usual icons (as well as joinme). I also set up FIrefox w/ adblock, and the PC has been virtually problem free. Only had to walk through setting up a new printer.
Maybe I'm behind the times, but I was unimpressed to learn about Mozilla Firefox handing off geographic tracking to Google. Uninstall instructions here.
about:config
In the Filter box, type geo.enabled
Double click on the geo.enabled preference
Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled.
FA says "Based on their analysis, the co-authors found that average U.S. scores in reading and math on the PISA are low partly because a disproportionately greater share of U.S. students comes from disadvantaged social class groups, whose performance is relatively low in every country."
Hmm, is the study arguing then that these students should be excluded? If so, what is the basis? Are they not really in the country?
Or are they sidestepping the issue of the massive difference in standards of living in the United States?
Granted, the source material may have handled this better than the summary article...
FA says: "As part of the study, Carnoy and Rothstein calculated how international rankings on the most recent PISA might change if the United States had a social class composition similar to that of top-ranking nations"
Slashdot Mirror
I play Nethack, FreeCiv and Morrowind (and very rarely, Oblivion). I rotate them out as I get bored with each game. For the Oblivion series, the player add-ons are what kept me hooked - there are some truly awesome player expansions out there, where the player is able to make a contribution in the first place.
See http://it.slashdot.org/story/9...
I browsed at 4+ comments, and didn't see any responses like this:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seems pretty simple?
I wonder when General Alexander will be facing charges?
I searched on 4+ comments, and didn't see anything, so here is Google's study> (they go through a lot of drives)
From the FA: "Viewing ads is part of the deal if users want content to be free, says Freitas. The use of ad blocking software breaks that implicit contract."
I love this argument. I recall a high-profile libertarian making the same argument (after which I stopped going to his site). Contract? Tell you what - put your site behind a password-protected page and I'd agree about the contract. But if your site is publicly accessible there is no contract and you know it.
I posted this the last time this topic arose. Whereas Warg has not yet faced trial (thus guilt in doubt), convicted war criminal Albert Speer had access to books (and was allowed to write) after being convicted. Fascinating difference in treatment.
" Everyone expected even greater things from my generation. We totally let them down...."
Yes, you did. The baby boomer generation is the most selfish generation in American history. You have left the country in worse shape than you found it.
The most recent two presidents are from your generation, and they are arguably the worst in American history.
But we see no apologies. Instead, we finally see attempt at marijuana legalization, to lessen the pain as you head to your graves.
Fun to compare someone who hasn't been found guilty of a crime to War Criminal Albert Speer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer
Speer served 20 years and was given more freedom in his confinement then Gottfrid, who has not been found guilty by Sweden.
From wiki: "With the draft memoir complete and clandestinely transmitted, Speer sought a new project. He found one while taking his daily exercise, walking in circles around the prison yard. Measuring the path's distance carefully, Speer set out to walk the distance from Berlin to Heidelberg. He then expanded his idea into a worldwide journey, visualizing the places he was "traveling" through while walking the path around the prison yard. Speer ordered guidebooks and other materials about the nations through which he imagined he was passing, so as to envisage as accurate a picture as possible.[117] Meticulously calculating every meter traveled, and mapping distances to the real-world geography, he began in northern Germany, passed through Asia by a southern route before entering Siberia, then crossed the Bering Strait and continued southwards, finally ending his sentence 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Guadalajara, Mexico."
Hmm, following up to my own post. Running as admin under XP, I now get the message "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices."
Guess it is back to FreeCiv...
OK, I'm a little disappointed. I'm running XP, and run by default in non-admin mode. The install MSI package required admin rights to install, and now, after waiting about 2 hours for the 4 gig download, it appears the game by default also requires admin access?????
Come on, in the 21st century games running on Microsoft operating systems should *not* require admin privileges. Please fix.
Given the recent revelations including NIST weaknesses, does OpenBSD withstand the likely attacks?
The Forbes article states "Under current regulations, electricity generated by renewable energy resources are given priority access to the grid. As a result, electricity generated by coal and gas-fired plants is only used “to make up for any shortfalls,” according to the AFP."
Does this mean that the nuclear stations have to divert their power when the wind picks up or the sun comes out? I'm certainly no expert, but I thought in the US it is the opposite, so that the wind stations have to go on bypass and the dams/nuclear stations have priority. Or is the Forbes article simply incorrect?
Replying to under erroneous moderation
"What's the advantage of having getters and setters vs. just accessing the variable directly?"
A few replies listing the usual reason, but as a c# programmer w/ the current automated get/set in Visual Studio, I have to ask the parent's question. Currently Visual Studio will create auto get/set if you do something like int foo {get; set; } that creates "anonymous" get/set functions. The problem, though, is you can't get at them!!! So, if you wanted to modify the just the setter you can't do int foo {get; } and write your own set function.
So, I guess I'm in the same boat - if you've got a get/set that can't be easily modified, why not just allow access to the variable directly?
Correct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko
WIth food inflation, the producers have been downsizing for quite some time in attempt to mask inflation. For example, coffee, chocolate and ice cream used to be sold by the pound. No longer - now it is something like 12 oz. Same with many cereals.
My modest proposal: switch all food to metric. The consumer confusion will mask the gigantic rip-off. But, we'll finally be on metric!
Sorry, accidentally hit redundant instead of insightful -- undoing moderation -- I wish there was some confirmation before hitting a negative moderation!
Don't know how this got moderated to 5.. As the original posted observed, admin access *is* required to install Java updates.
I run XP as a non-admin myself, but in order to run certain programs (DVD burning software is the primary one) I have to run the program as administrator.
Most here are probably familiar with his SF, but his fiction (like Wasp) is also quite good.
I found The Steep Approach To Garbadale to be sort of a non-SF version of Use of Weapons, with the inter-familial squabbles.
I've done this. Set your parent up in XP with a non-admin account. Ensure you can have her sign in as admin when necessary. Worst case, she signs in as admin and there's a big icon on the desktop (make the background color red or something to make ti really obvious) for running joinme session, and nothing else. On her default desktop, all the usual icons (as well as joinme). I also set up FIrefox w/ adblock, and the PC has been virtually problem free. Only had to walk through setting up a new printer.
Maybe I'm behind the times, but I was unimpressed to learn about Mozilla Firefox handing off geographic tracking to Google. Uninstall instructions here.
about:config
In the Filter box, type geo.enabled
Double click on the geo.enabled preference
Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled.
I use dark themes in Visual Studio and it was pretty easy to set up. Take a look here or here. This is what I use.
Google is your friend, too.
There were at least two serious petitions that were blown off - legalization of marijuana and elimination of TSA.
Kudos to the White House for changing the URLs so that Google searches return bad links, and no search on the petition page.
Oddly, searching for "Neill Franklin" the author of a petition, returns no results. His petition is discussed here
Searching the White House petition page for "TSA" also returns zero results, despite it having been open for voting.
I find it astonishing that anyone with an IQ over 120 supports this administration.
FA says "Based on their analysis, the co-authors found that average U.S. scores in reading and math on the PISA are low partly because a disproportionately greater share of U.S. students comes from disadvantaged social class groups, whose performance is relatively low in every country."
Hmm, is the study arguing then that these students should be excluded? If so, what is the basis? Are they not really in the country?
Or are they sidestepping the issue of the massive difference in standards of living in the United States?
Granted, the source material may have handled this better than the summary article...
FA says: "As part of the study, Carnoy and Rothstein calculated how international rankings on the most recent PISA might change if the United States had a social class composition similar to that of top-ranking nations"
And the point is???
Also, a better link to the story is here: http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3-january-2013/ with some good reader comments.