"but America's bitch in IP legislation issues" I'd have to challenge you on that. We currently don't have lawsuits all over the place and haven't ratified the DMCA. We're quite the opposite, and while there is talk about this lobby group or that lobby group, our politicians aren't the pushovers that some people think they are. They have no interest in Americanizing Canadians, and resist it, especially when its quite obvious. American companies have been pushing for a few years to try and get the media tax repealed so they can make it easier to sue and the government won't do it.
it can happen frequently. Darren McCarty got hit in the face twice in the same series against anaheim, during which the anaheim fans booed him as he lay on the ice (thats another story). They do take a lot of sticks in the face, and I'm not sure I buy this whole "a visor limits me" thing. I'm sure someone can design a visor that doesn't "limit" them. Were I in the NHL, I wouldn't hesitate to wear a full face mask, especially playing as a defenseman where I'd block a lot of shots.
or they're the people who want to market linux to the mainstream. If things WERE standardized, it would be much easier to train people for lower level tech support (i.e. retail level like best buy, circuit city, etc) and to troubleshoot a lot of problems. As it is, you've got to be an expert or ready to spend hours on google figuring out someone's obscure problem. Were everything standardized it would be easier to figure out where everything is and how everything is laid out, etc. You'd be able to easily have graphical installers for everything to make things easy on the masses, etc
That is why Linspire is trying to create the distro they're creating. To make it that easy. I'm not a fan of linspire, but they have the right idea to market to the masses.
As long as there is money on this planet, you won't see Linux make major footholds if it sticks to a strict policy of only free software. People need support, and people don't give that for free. They also need quality, and they sometimes need products sooner rather than later. Businesses sometimes don't have all day, week,month,year/etc to wait for a product to be brought up to snuff for them.
Yeah in a perfect world all the software would be free, and everyone would keep a penguin in their bathtub. But its not realistic.
a study done in the researcher's own office? I'm not sure how much credibility I'd give that outside their limited office. There are such things as anomolies, and this doesn't even mention how many weeks. They only did it in a single department. Maybe start spreading it around and studying the effects in various randomly chosen offices, however releasing the results has tainted any immediate study and you'll have to wait a year so that its not fresh on people's minds.
It'll never sell. Most clothing in game is extremely cheap. Especially things like basic Ts. Most people either give the stuff away or charge very cheaply for it. I've seen boxes of Ts like 50 for L$25. They want to charge L$150 for a pair of socks? Good luck with that. This is probably why the store is devoid of any traffic, and the only person there is some linden who appears to be trapped in the floor.
How do you know he didn't teach her that? Someone can do all the right things and she can still make the wrong choice. People aren't perfect and you can educate them till you're blue in the face and they can still screw up. Especially rebellious teens.
Community based websites and bulletin board systems have been around for 20 years. I visited BBS in 1990 when I was a teen and they were old hat by then.
That is plenty of time for legal precedents to take place if any were going to but oh..they haven't. and it was no different than myspace or any other community site. There were message boards, private messages, little games, profiles, etc. We used to meet people off them too.
She lied about her age? Tough. He should have checked her ID. Why did she check his? or better yet, I'm pretty sure he's not required to check her ID, get a DNA swab and some dental work for comparison to verify she is who she says she is.
Not every 16 year old has their drivers license, learner's/etc. She tells him she's 16, she maybe looks 16, maybe he does ask for her school ID, oh I left it at home today.
Lots of possibilities here besides the simple he guy is a sick pedo There are a multitude of possibilities, because pedophilia requires interest in pre-pubescent children. American morons.Another example of them hijacking a buzz word to try and paint someone in a poor light.
pfft.unless the father was standing over her armed in her bed, he's a lousy parent. If she leaves the house she should be chipped in several locations and there should be no less than 3 satellites tracking her. He should also hire someone to follow her 24 hours a day. Otherwise he's just not doing his job.
If someone is going to be that picky, don't play with them, they're probably going to be pricks the entire session. That example also doesn't contradict what I said, you had legal PDFs and if he jumps all the hoops so will he, how would that have made the outcome any different? It won't.
I've never run into a single person who cared if what I had was in PDF form or paper form as long as they contained the same information.
And someone getting picky at a gaming table isn't the same as getting busted for copyright infringement, that was what I meant when I said no one would care about them.
Yeah..or you could just not care and do it anyway. Its your stuff. Unless you're caught distributing it, I don't think it would ever even remotely come into question.
Any errate I've seen released is often released free of charge through the publisher's website in a small PDF with a list of corrections. I can't see how that would change.
Because the failure or success of those games had nothing to do with the ruleset behind them? There is no causality there. Making that assumption is stupid.
The reason ToEE failed was because Atari should never have produced it and drove it into the ground like they do with just about everything they've touched lately. In the meantime the fans have gone on to completely draw new maps for that engine and create all new content and are well on their way to releasing B2: The Keep on the Borderlands.
They also released a community patch and fixed up a number of issues in the original game. Honestly I enjoyed ToEE immensely and found the combat to be amazing in it compared to BG.
I find that any initiative that targets people based on something they can't control (gender, race, nationality, etc) does nothing to further equality but remind us of the differences. Why do we need to encourage women to join gnome? If they want to join, won't they join? Any woman I've talked to does what she's interested in. There are just natural inequalities in certain things, thats life and not everything is going to end up balanced. We should be focusing our energy on furthering projects and not pointless attempts at appearing PC.
Which is what I often do if I ever find a solution. It seems FC5 doesn't include an alias for wins in a file, so if you try to ping machines by name by default it doesn't work. I found a solution on linuxquestions and made sure to post it to my thread on Fedora Forums. Unfortunately a lot of people don't do that, even with harder problems.
Except that isn't what you hear before you switch which is my point. Before you switch you hear how helpful linux users are and how they'll solve any problem you have, etc. But in reality its not even remotely true.
But they don't even help with any kind of troubleshooting has been my experience. None of my outstanding annoyances have gotten anything along the lines of "Try checking this log, or run this command, etc" to try and get an idea of whats going on. They just sit there with zero input.
I can't imagine between fedora forums and linuxquestions someone doesn't even have the slightest clue what things I should even look at. Its one thing not to have an instant answer, its another thing for an amateur to have months go by without even the slightest hint at what he should look at to solve his problem.
This is good because one thing I've found in my switch to Linux since last November. The community isn't all its cracked up to be. I'm not saying its bad, I'm just saying its less amazing than what you hear before the switch.
When you run into a problem, if its simple hey no problem. People will line up to give you a quick response that will send you on your way. If its anything less than that you could spend days and weeks and longer finding an answer.
You google late into the night hoping to find something and you do.. a 3 year old post on a mailing list for another distro possibly from a parrallel universe. The only problem is the solution is "Hey I fiddled around last night and fixed it, no more problems guys!"
if you're really lucky there is an e-mail address, if you're blessed, the person still uses it. If you had a fresh horse-shoe inserted that morning he actually remembers the incident in question and how he solved it.
I think I've still got half a dozen or more outstanding "annoyances" on mailing lists and message forums for things that no one can seemingly solve. Like why if I change my window theme in gnome the background for all my screensavers changes from black to the color of the window border.
Because the comment was made in ignorance and if he is really going to call something crap for a $3 difference on a $121 PC part, it shows how petty he is and likely calling the rest crap with the same incorrect brush.
I doubt he was taking a serious issue with the price being $3 lower. However I noticed two top posts regarding the price supposedly being higher on the way to his comment. Sounds like someone who didn't read TFA and just made a half-assed comment to appear smart or funny.
If he's seriously going to call an article crap because the component is now $3 cheaper than what was in the article at time of posting, then yes, his entire comment is garbage.
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it was 1983...what did you expect? :)
"but America's bitch in IP legislation issues"
I'd have to challenge you on that. We currently don't have lawsuits all over the place and haven't ratified the DMCA. We're quite the opposite, and while there is talk about this lobby group or that lobby group, our politicians aren't the pushovers that some people think they are. They have no interest in Americanizing Canadians, and resist it, especially when its quite obvious.
American companies have been pushing for a few years to try and get the media tax repealed so they can make it easier to sue and the government won't do it.
No, and it was a great game. I was a bit disappointed to see it on the list.
That was a fun game. I have a copy here somewhere.
it can happen frequently. Darren McCarty got hit in the face twice in the same series against anaheim, during which the anaheim fans booed him as he lay on the ice (thats another story).
They do take a lot of sticks in the face, and I'm not sure I buy this whole "a visor limits me" thing. I'm sure someone can design a visor that doesn't "limit" them. Were I in the NHL, I wouldn't hesitate to wear a full face mask, especially playing as a defenseman where I'd block a lot of shots.
or they're the people who want to market linux to the mainstream. If things WERE standardized, it would be much easier to train people for lower level tech support (i.e. retail level like best buy, circuit city, etc) and to troubleshoot a lot of problems. As it is, you've got to be an expert or ready to spend hours on google figuring out someone's obscure problem. Were everything standardized it would be easier to figure out where everything is and how everything is laid out, etc. You'd be able to easily have graphical installers for everything to make things easy on the masses, etc
That is why Linspire is trying to create the distro they're creating. To make it that easy. I'm not a fan of linspire, but they have the right idea to market to the masses.
As long as there is money on this planet, you won't see Linux make major footholds if it sticks to a strict policy of only free software. People need support, and people don't give that for free.
They also need quality, and they sometimes need products sooner rather than later. Businesses sometimes don't have all day, week,month,year/etc to wait for a product to be brought up to snuff for them.
Yeah in a perfect world all the software would be free, and everyone would keep a penguin in their bathtub. But its not realistic.
a study done in the researcher's own office? I'm not sure how much credibility I'd give that outside their limited office. There are such things as anomolies, and this doesn't even mention how many weeks. They only did it in a single department. Maybe start spreading it around and studying the effects in various randomly chosen offices, however releasing the results has tainted any immediate study and you'll have to wait a year so that its not fresh on people's minds.
It'll never sell. Most clothing in game is extremely cheap. Especially things like basic Ts. Most people either give the stuff away or charge very cheaply for it. I've seen boxes of Ts like 50 for L$25. They want to charge L$150 for a pair of socks? Good luck with that.
This is probably why the store is devoid of any traffic, and the only person there is some linden who appears to be trapped in the floor.
We can write our member of parliament, and if that doesn't work, I can go pay him a little visit and explain my position as his constituent very well.
How do you know he didn't teach her that? Someone can do all the right things and she can still make the wrong choice. People aren't perfect and you can educate them till you're blue in the face and they can still screw up.
Especially rebellious teens.
Community based websites and bulletin board systems have been around for 20 years.
I visited BBS in 1990 when I was a teen and they were old hat by then.
That is plenty of time for legal precedents to take place if any were going to but oh..they haven't.
and it was no different than myspace or any other community site. There were message boards, private messages, little games, profiles, etc.
We used to meet people off them too.
She lied about her age? Tough. He should have checked her ID.
Why did she check his? or better yet, I'm pretty sure he's not required to check her ID, get a DNA swab and some dental work for comparison to verify she is who she says she is.
Not every 16 year old has their drivers license, learner's/etc. She tells him she's 16, she maybe looks 16, maybe he does ask for her school ID, oh I left it at home today.
Lots of possibilities here besides the simple he guy is a sick pedo
There are a multitude of possibilities, because pedophilia requires interest in pre-pubescent children. American morons.Another example of them hijacking a buzz word to try and paint someone in a poor light.
pfft.unless the father was standing over her armed in her bed, he's a lousy parent. If she leaves the house she should be chipped in several locations and there should be no less than 3 satellites tracking her.
He should also hire someone to follow her 24 hours a day. Otherwise he's just not doing his job.
study spiderweb software and do everything they do.
If someone is going to be that picky, don't play with them, they're probably going to be pricks the entire session. That example also doesn't contradict what I said, you had legal PDFs and if he jumps all the hoops so will he, how would that have made the outcome any different? It won't.
I've never run into a single person who cared if what I had was in PDF form or paper form as long as they contained the same information.
And someone getting picky at a gaming table isn't the same as getting busted for copyright infringement, that was what I meant when I said no one would care about them.
Yeah..or you could just not care and do it anyway.
Its your stuff.
Unless you're caught distributing it, I don't think it would ever even remotely come into question.
Any errate I've seen released is often released free of charge through the publisher's website in a small PDF with a list of corrections. I can't see how that would change.
Because the failure or success of those games had nothing to do with the ruleset behind them? There is no causality there. Making that assumption is stupid.
The reason ToEE failed was because Atari should never have produced it and drove it into the ground like they do with just about everything they've touched lately.
In the meantime the fans have gone on to completely draw new maps for that engine and create all new content and are well on their way to releasing B2: The Keep on the Borderlands.
They also released a community patch and fixed up a number of issues in the original game. Honestly I enjoyed ToEE immensely and found the combat to be amazing in it compared to BG.
I find that any initiative that targets people based on something they can't control (gender, race, nationality, etc) does nothing to further equality but remind us of the differences. Why do we need to encourage women to join gnome? If they want to join, won't they join? Any woman I've talked to does what she's interested in. There are just natural inequalities in certain things, thats life and not everything is going to end up balanced. We should be focusing our energy on furthering projects and not pointless attempts at appearing PC.
or up to 127,000 CDs by stacking multiple units..
did they even think that through?
thats 1270 units, or a height of 237.49 meters...
Which is what I often do if I ever find a solution. It seems FC5 doesn't include an alias for wins in a file, so if you try to ping machines by name by default it doesn't work. I found a solution on linuxquestions and made sure to post it to my thread on Fedora Forums. Unfortunately a lot of people don't do that, even with harder problems.
Except that isn't what you hear before you switch which is my point. Before you switch you hear how helpful linux users are and how they'll solve any problem you have, etc. But in reality its not even remotely true.
But they don't even help with any kind of troubleshooting has been my experience. None of my outstanding annoyances have gotten anything along the lines of "Try checking this log, or run this command, etc" to try and get an idea of whats going on. They just sit there with zero input.
I can't imagine between fedora forums and linuxquestions someone doesn't even have the slightest clue what things I should even look at. Its one thing not to have an instant answer, its another thing for an amateur to have months go by without even the slightest hint at what he should look at to solve his problem.
This is good because one thing I've found in my switch to Linux since last November. The community isn't all its cracked up to be. I'm not saying its bad, I'm just saying its less amazing than what you hear before the switch.
When you run into a problem, if its simple hey no problem. People will line up to give you a quick response that will send you on your way. If its anything less than that you could spend days and weeks and longer finding an answer.
You google late into the night hoping to find something and you do.. a 3 year old post on a mailing list for another distro possibly from a parrallel universe. The only problem is the solution is "Hey I fiddled around last night and fixed it, no more problems guys!"
if you're really lucky there is an e-mail address, if you're blessed, the person still uses it. If you had a fresh horse-shoe inserted that morning he actually remembers the incident in question and how he solved it.
I think I've still got half a dozen or more outstanding "annoyances" on mailing lists and message forums for things that no one can seemingly solve. Like why if I change my window theme in gnome the background for all my screensavers changes from black to the color of the window border.
Because the comment was made in ignorance and if he is really going to call something crap for a $3 difference on a $121 PC part, it shows how petty he is and likely calling the rest crap with the same incorrect brush.
I doubt he was taking a serious issue with the price being $3 lower. However I noticed two top posts regarding the price supposedly being higher on the way to his comment.
Sounds like someone who didn't read TFA and just made a half-assed comment to appear smart or funny.
If he's seriously going to call an article crap because the component is now $3 cheaper than what was in the article at time of posting, then yes, his entire comment is garbage.