I went to the Insomniac Games website and found no creativity there at all. There are a dozen straightforward FPS titles with no story or point. All being simply various excuses to shoot at things with a variety of weapons. Apparently Mr.Mike does not follow his own advice.
Look down. See that big thing in front of you with lots of keys. It's called a "keyboard", and it is what you are supposed to be using most of the time instead of all those GUI buttons that went away. The less you use the mouse, the faster you'll finish what you're doing.
In case you haven't noticed, fossil fuels are being depleted, and will all be gone pretty soon anyway. Oil will be gone in ~50 years. Coal will be gone in about ~100 years. So all these carbon emissions will eventually stop whether anybody wants to make a legislative effort or not.
The FSF points out that the use of the (original) BSD license is not advisable because of the existence of two version of it: the original with the advertising clause, and the modified without it. Because the modified version is equivalent to the MIT (or X11) license, you should use the MIT license instead to avoid confusion.
Here in the US it is not out of the question to be sued for your public domain program. The BSD license has appropriate disclaimers of liability that protect the developer from many kinds of lawsuits. Because a lawsuit is likely to bankrupt you whether you are guilty or not, this is an important consideration.
It's not necessarily better. www.facebook.com is under high load, while www.v6.facebook.com has no load at all. That could easily account for the extra latency.
Lookup of AAAA records is abysmally slow right now for some reason. Maybe DNS servers are not caching the replies? Anyway, I disabled all IPv6 requests in my local DNS cache daemon (by immediately returning NXDOMAIN for all of them), and browsing became WAY faster. It's amazing how much time is wasted on IPv6 queries, even when you have no IPv6 connection, since glibc prefers IPv6 results whether you have one or not.
Uh, no. The problem is retaining the talent for the same price (or lower) as we pay the idiot. Frankly, most managers prefer the idiot, because he takes a long time to do anything (while the manager gets paid, and paid, and paid) and can be conveniently blamed when the project doesn't work. Then he can be fired and replaced with another idiot, allowing the cycle to begin again.
If you instead propose that the universe oscillates in size, then it would become obvious that expansion will first be accelerating then decelerating, sinusoidally. Dr.Randall Mills proposes that the acceleration is caused by the stars "burning" matter into energy, uncurving space. Eventually matter will all turn to energy or black holes, black holes will over time capture all the energy and by becoming more massive will cause space contraction. Then something magical will happen and the black holes will explode and become matter again, restarting the cycle. According to Mills, the cycle ought to take about a trillion years. While his other theories have not been particularly successful, I think he's much closer to the target here than the mainstream "dark energy" crowd.
So are there any interesting space objects overhead at 6pm tonight? One of them could be Heaven. If the angels are coming from there and pulling people back, then of course it will be tied to the timezone; or, more accurately, to the up direction.
It only seems "simple" to you because you have seen phone clock interfaces before and know that you have to "add an alarm". To someone who has only used physical clocks that's a ridiculous idea. You don't add an alarm; you set it. On analog clocks you would have an extra hand that would be the physical embodiment of the alarm.
A much more obvious thing to do would have been to use a an alarm icon (a bell is fairly well-known, a "jumping" alarm clock might be another) with a superimposed plus instead of just a plus. You might also write "Alarm" on it. That way it becomes clear that the button has something to do with alarms. A bare plus has no meaning at all.
We already do this: it's called "outsourcing". Only, you hire the cheapest people for the job, no matter where they are. This way you drastically lower company operation costs. Of course, your products suddenly become crap, you can easily blame it on the employees. "We hired him over the net. How could we possibly have known he wasn't any good?" And then you still get your bonus.
If your motherboard has a TPM chip, you could set up a trusted boot sequence, insuring that the OS is unmodified. You can then make the OS execute only signed executables, making any modifications to installed software impossible. Malware would also be prevented from running.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide the world in kinds of people, and those who don't. This is an inherently polarizing view. I do. You don't. There is no middle ground here, as in most other current hot political issues. If you are being "non-judgmental", it merely means you are avoiding a decision. When you make a decision, you will automatically join one side or the other. Want to avoid judgement or not. Want national health care or not. Want higher taxes on the rich or not. Want universal equality or not. Yes or no. Wrong or right. All the important things in life are black and white.
There is one point you missed: for most people buying an ebook is very different from buying a physical book. When you buy a paper book, it is obvious that you have bought the content of the book. When you buy a Kindle, you only buy a device for reading content you buy later. Most people don't think of ebooks as "real", just as they don't make a distinction between "the computer" and the programs that run on it. So when they look at the Kindle, they see no distinction between the device and the content. The result is that any content that "appears" on the Kindle, becomes the responsibility of the creator of the Kindle, just as the content of a physical book is the responsibility of the publisher of the book. By allowing undesirable content to appear on a child's Kindle, Amazon becomes responsible for the act in the parent's mind. When a book offends the parent's sensibilities, he will throw it away and perhaps stop buying from the publisher. When an ebook offends, it is the Kindle that gets thrown away and Amazon gets blamed, not the publisher of the ebook. Remember that for normal people ebooks are not "real". They do not exist. The device IS the content, and Amazon is responsible for it.
Amazon is merely controlling what it sells in its online ebook store. You can still obtain you books from other sources and read it on your Kindle. Sure, it might not be as convenient; you have to convert from a different format, like.epub or.lit, but there are free tools, like Calibre, available for the purpose.
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You know, I could write a kick-ass Duke game. Oh, wait, that would be illegal.
I went to the Insomniac Games website and found no creativity there at all. There are a dozen straightforward FPS titles with no story or point. All being simply various excuses to shoot at things with a variety of weapons. Apparently Mr.Mike does not follow his own advice.
This is old news.
Look down. See that big thing in front of you with lots of keys. It's called a "keyboard", and it is what you are supposed to be using most of the time instead of all those GUI buttons that went away. The less you use the mouse, the faster you'll finish what you're doing.
You mean it isn't enough to just shade the link in blue?
Ah, the good old days of Slashdot in the 1990s when thin clients were the future, the desktop was dying, Java was the answer, and kernel 2.3 was finally going to bring Linux to the desktop.
In case you haven't noticed, fossil fuels are being depleted, and will all be gone pretty soon anyway. Oil will be gone in ~50 years. Coal will be gone in about ~100 years. So all these carbon emissions will eventually stop whether anybody wants to make a legislative effort or not.
Jesus also said: "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel" Matthew 15:24
The FSF points out that the use of the (original) BSD license is not advisable because of the existence of two version of it: the original with the advertising clause, and the modified without it. Because the modified version is equivalent to the MIT (or X11) license, you should use the MIT license instead to avoid confusion.
Here in the US it is not out of the question to be sued for your public domain program. The BSD license has appropriate disclaimers of liability that protect the developer from many kinds of lawsuits. Because a lawsuit is likely to bankrupt you whether you are guilty or not, this is an important consideration.
It's not necessarily better. www.facebook.com is under high load, while www.v6.facebook.com has no load at all. That could easily account for the extra latency.
Lookup of AAAA records is abysmally slow right now for some reason. Maybe DNS servers are not caching the replies? Anyway, I disabled all IPv6 requests in my local DNS cache daemon (by immediately returning NXDOMAIN for all of them), and browsing became WAY faster. It's amazing how much time is wasted on IPv6 queries, even when you have no IPv6 connection, since glibc prefers IPv6 results whether you have one or not.
Uh, no. The problem is retaining the talent for the same price (or lower) as we pay the idiot. Frankly, most managers prefer the idiot, because he takes a long time to do anything (while the manager gets paid, and paid, and paid) and can be conveniently blamed when the project doesn't work. Then he can be fired and replaced with another idiot, allowing the cycle to begin again.
If you instead propose that the universe oscillates in size, then it would become obvious that expansion will first be accelerating then decelerating, sinusoidally. Dr.Randall Mills proposes that the acceleration is caused by the stars "burning" matter into energy, uncurving space. Eventually matter will all turn to energy or black holes, black holes will over time capture all the energy and by becoming more massive will cause space contraction. Then something magical will happen and the black holes will explode and become matter again, restarting the cycle. According to Mills, the cycle ought to take about a trillion years. While his other theories have not been particularly successful, I think he's much closer to the target here than the mainstream "dark energy" crowd.
Don't worry people, the CDC is on it!
So are there any interesting space objects overhead at 6pm tonight? One of them could be Heaven. If the angels are coming from there and pulling people back, then of course it will be tied to the timezone; or, more accurately, to the up direction.
Jesus may not know when he's coming back, but data-mining advertisers no doubt already know what he is going to buy when he gets here.
Draw a picture of a bell under the +. That will be enough.
It only seems "simple" to you because you have seen phone clock interfaces before and know that you have to "add an alarm". To someone who has only used physical clocks that's a ridiculous idea. You don't add an alarm; you set it. On analog clocks you would have an extra hand that would be the physical embodiment of the alarm.
A much more obvious thing to do would have been to use a an alarm icon (a bell is fairly well-known, a "jumping" alarm clock might be another) with a superimposed plus instead of just a plus. You might also write "Alarm" on it. That way it becomes clear that the button has something to do with alarms. A bare plus has no meaning at all.
We already do this: it's called "outsourcing". Only, you hire the cheapest people for the job, no matter where they are. This way you drastically lower company operation costs. Of course, your products suddenly become crap, you can easily blame it on the employees. "We hired him over the net. How could we possibly have known he wasn't any good?" And then you still get your bonus.
Power management regressions do not appear to have been corrected. My Radeon is still failing to downclock with dynpm and is running hot.
If your motherboard has a TPM chip, you could set up a trusted boot sequence, insuring that the OS is unmodified. You can then make the OS execute only signed executables, making any modifications to installed software impossible. Malware would also be prevented from running.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide the world in kinds of people, and those who don't. This is an inherently polarizing view. I do. You don't. There is no middle ground here, as in most other current hot political issues. If you are being "non-judgmental", it merely means you are avoiding a decision. When you make a decision, you will automatically join one side or the other. Want to avoid judgement or not. Want national health care or not. Want higher taxes on the rich or not. Want universal equality or not. Yes or no. Wrong or right. All the important things in life are black and white.
There is one point you missed: for most people buying an ebook is very different from buying a physical book. When you buy a paper book, it is obvious that you have bought the content of the book. When you buy a Kindle, you only buy a device for reading content you buy later. Most people don't think of ebooks as "real", just as they don't make a distinction between "the computer" and the programs that run on it. So when they look at the Kindle, they see no distinction between the device and the content. The result is that any content that "appears" on the Kindle, becomes the responsibility of the creator of the Kindle, just as the content of a physical book is the responsibility of the publisher of the book. By allowing undesirable content to appear on a child's Kindle, Amazon becomes responsible for the act in the parent's mind. When a book offends the parent's sensibilities, he will throw it away and perhaps stop buying from the publisher. When an ebook offends, it is the Kindle that gets thrown away and Amazon gets blamed, not the publisher of the ebook. Remember that for normal people ebooks are not "real". They do not exist. The device IS the content, and Amazon is responsible for it.
Amazon is merely controlling what it sells in its online ebook store. You can still obtain you books from other sources and read it on your Kindle. Sure, it might not be as convenient; you have to convert from a different format, like .epub or .lit, but there are free tools, like Calibre, available for the purpose.