Oh jeez, come on! That's like asking when the last time water was wet. Just the other day on Fox they were talking about how when Barack Obama bumped fists with his wife and they called him a terrorist (link). Or how about that picture of him when he was dressed up in traditional Somali garb (=90% Christian), claiming he was dressing up as an muslim (link, etc. etc. etc. Face it, the modern conservative political view is synonymous with character assassination. You can thank Rove, and the other Republican attack dogs for that.
For a long time now, I've wondered about license or copyright on the community models for a game like, e.g., Neverwinter Nights, who owns the copyright? If this is to be believed, no one does. Maybe now we can get an open source MMORPG that looks decent. Of course, the bitmaps are images so are probably copyrighted, which is a huge part of the work but maybe there's hope.
There's also a famous quote from a WWI British officer named Julian Grenfell:
"I adore war. It's like a big picnic without the objectlessness of a picnic. I've never been so well or happy. No one grumbles at one for being dirty."...
Julian Grenfell's picnic was soon over. He died from wounds on April 30th, 1915. He was 27 years old.
I got the quote from here, which is a great WWI web-site.
According to Wikipedia, the original lunar rover did about 8 mph. I don't think they mentioned in the video how fast the chariot goes, but it looked pretty slow compared to the rate people were walking next to it. Wouldn't that kind of limit the range they could cover in some practical amount of time? Unless they're planning on outfitting that thing as the lunar equivalent of an RV. Or maybe this is just because it's the prototype and the real one will be faster.
What is the U.S. Army doing to protect U.S. sensitive information from the frequent number of cyber-attacks originating from inside the People's Republic of China? Is it primarily defensive?
I know many native chinese and have even been to Beijing. I can say that you should take Mandarin if you want to learn more about Chinese culture or because you want to travel there, not because your afraid of China becoming a super-power. They're not super-powering anywhere yet.
The same cultural factors that cause them to ship lead paint based toys and glycol laced toothpaste affects them too. It's called corruption. For one thing, the whole place is an environmental disaster. For another, if you look at building quality there it's the same thing -- buildings in China that have been made 15 years ago look like they were made 50 years ago, with water stains and poor quality maintenance. A good example of this? Look at the school buildings that fell down in the earthquake, bricks that fell apart like sand, rotten supports, etc. etc. etc. Classic corruption at work. This also extends to their military.
Let's put it this way, in the U.S. we have occasional overt corruption of politicians and government officials (notably the current administration and their no-bid contracts to Halliburton in Iraq, etc.), and some institutionalized corruption such as lobbying, but it's nothing like China. Imagine politicians like Bush and Cheney, or the democratic congressman with the $90k in his refrigerator were the norm. from the state to local level. Nothing would work, everyone would be promoted due to loyalty rather than competence. In the U.S. there's been tremendous damage just from seven years of the current adminstration, but think about what the country would look like after 50 years of it: that's China. So yeah, if the Chinese were to suddenly change their culture and make it dishonorable to be corrupt rather than just get caught, we'd have problems but as it is China is going nowhere fast.
Most of the "newsy" articles come from AP and Reuters. That's one of the reasons I love to watch Jon Stewart's show, he does these montages of the cable news morons where he shows off just how silly and repetitive they are. I just laugh, how can anyone take cable news seriously after that? They've got one up right now about Clinton's concession speech and Obama's VP choice.
Actually, if you read the latest Distrowatch Weekly, they say that Linux on the Eee PC is almost a thing of the past.
Which is especially strange since the linux version of every model of the eeePC is outselling the windows version on Amazon. I would say it's the larger hard drive, but the older model linux version is selling better too and it has a slower clock speed than the XP one. I don't know, I don't pay attention to this stuff.
I agree. I'm no real gamer (I just gave up nwn, which was released in 2001) but I thought this one was worth the $20. I didn't even mind the combat system which my previous experiences with that type of combat on consoles at friends houses left me dissatisfied (just not my thing). I liked how you had to plan your attacks and timing for various characters vs. certain NPCs. At the same time though, it wasn't so complicated that I felt overwhelmed. In other words, for a casual gamer like me, it was just the thing.
I also GREATLY appreciated that they released it on linux and mac os x at the same time as that other platform that games are usually written for. Plus, how many games do you know of that you get to beat up hobos, mimes and clowns with a rake?
What the hell is with this rash of comments lately criticizing the moderator tags? You know...satire or comedy can be informative as well as funny, and mods are certainly allowed to have a different opinion. So stop being a mod-nazi already.
In support of parent, all you have to do is look at the graph linked to here. Not only do people with lower incomes fare much better under Democratic presidents, but every income category fare better under Democratic presidents (except possibly the top 1% which are not listed).
They might be replacing binary files that they can't run a patch on, or maybe there's some other reason... but regardless you can be reasonably assured that they won't just put 500 Mb download for no good reason.
To too many people someone spending 3 hours bored out of their mind at a local bar is somehow fundamentally better than that same person having fun for 3 hours in an MMORPG.
I find it relaxing to play a MMORPG and have my characters spend their time in the bar, you insensitive clod!:)
P.S. You'd be surprised how many people like to play drunks in RPGs, I think it must be because it's more acceptable to that because "it's only role-playing".
Nice idea! I was thinking the opposite: I've got an old mac laptop that I'm thinking of using as a DHCP server for some windows machines that drive some instruments that I don't want on the internet because of the security hassle. (Yeah yeah, I know windows can be made to be safe, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn how to do that, macs and linux are easier and I know how to do it already.) Apple makes this easy, I use the wifi connection to the local DHCP server, and then share the connection over the ethernet port to a hub.
Also, I know the submitter already has plenty of tinkering computers lying around, but I have to plug my favorite old laptop shop, ifixit. The reason I like them is because they'll sell you refurbished parts for just about any apple laptop and they have great step by step instructions full of pictures to on how to replace it. I've replaced the logic board on my titanium DVI G4 and am currently working on a powerbook lombard 400 MHz that won't recognize the battery. The nice thing about the lombard is that it's built like a tank and it's got those ports on the side that you can switch modular components out of, which means you can put two batteries in instead of a battery and a CD drive and you get something like 10 hours of battery life. Not too shabby. Also, enlighenment (e17) and debian runs great on it once you turn off the dropshadow and some of the other graphics intensive stuff, and get the wireless working.
Nah... NeoOffice still runs a large part of OOo code. Mostly the differences on the front end are in using native widgets instead of the OOo ones (why reinvent the wheel?). The irony here is that the guys doing NeoOffice tried to work with Sun to do this when they started but the people at Sun weren't cooperative. NeoOffice is running what OpenOffice.org should have done a long, long, long time ago and only now have decided this is necessary.
Also, remember that Sam Brownback was one of three repbublican presidential candidates who does not believe in evolution. That tells me he is either a liar or stupid. Either way you can't trust him. My guess he feels the Latino xenophobia is wearing out so now he thinks the Chinese would make a better target.
It could also be that the recession is making people buy less new computers. I suppose you'd have to look at overall desktop sales. According to this, growth in U.S. sales were down to +3.5% last quarter (yes still growing, but growth is slow), but worldwide growth in PC sales are still up. So I suppose there's some truth in the people are switching to alternate OSes argument or installing corporate licenses.
It's not the entire U.S. government that's the problem. Usually the government keeps pretty good records. The problem is this administration believes itself above law and order. It also has infected large portions of other parts of the government with it's political appointees whose only quality is loyalty the administration. Whatever was on those e-mails was likely to be more damning the "hand slap" they're getting now for erasing, er "losing" the e-mails. I suppose it could have been an innocent mix-up, but if the administration is so incompetent that they can't make back-ups of data they're required to, I suppose it's no suprise they've failed miserably in just about every other enterprise they've attempted in the last seven years (except of course, smearing their opponents, they're rather good at that).
No shit! Sounds to me like he had already made up his mind before he even walked into the store. In any case, if I wrote up all my bad experiences at Best Buy and how terrible or snotty the sales clerks were there, would I get a +5 informative too? (Actually, I probably would, as most people know that service at Best Buy sucks balls.) As for ipods on linux: mine works just fine, even using hfsplus as the file system. Yeah okay it does take some work to get it running but a lot of things in linux take some work to get running (e.g. wireless) so it's par for the course.
Apple memory is expensive, but having bought the wrong ram for the onboard video when I built my home machine (running Debian), I'm happy to let them bother about finding what ram to use. But, you do know don't you that the memory in apple computers is the same as everywhere else right? That means if you're so inclined you can buy it from newegg or whatever. They even tell you what kind to buy in the instruction manual that comes with the machine.
As for replacing stuff: you're out of you mind if you think that replacing things for powerbooks is difficult (well, maybe the display). This place will sell you just a refurbished part for just about any apple laptop within the last 10 years or so. Not only that, they have free instructions on how to replace the part on the site. I used this myself just a few months ago to replace the logic board in my 2002 Tibook that I beat to hell biking to work with it every day for four years and now it runs like new. Incidentally, adding a hard-drive or additional card to a desktop is trivially easy. You don't even need a screw-driver, I just added a 1 TB drive I bought on newegg to my desktop. (Compare that to pounding on the old dells and the huge number of cuts just to remove the cover.) As for service calls, the applecare work just fine: one phone call and a box shows up at your door the next day, put the computer in the box, a few days later you have your PC back.
The other thing that struck me as strange about the parent's post is that this pricing scheme the RIAA is suggesting is exactly the opposite of the way manufacturing usually works. That is, higher volume usually means lower pricing because the engineering and startup costs are smaller per unit. So if the latest and greatest pop song is selling like hot cakes, it should cost less, not more. For an electronic song, given that the bandwidth costs are small per unit, the big costs are going to be the production and marketing of the song, which would still go down per unit sold. It looks to me that the RIAA's pricing scheme is them just trying to make people pay whatever they can. My own experience has been consistent with this, because I buy very rare music (i.e., artist names that start with the Ensemble such and such, or are remastered versions of recordings from the earlier part of the 20th century) and often I have to pay a premium for these CDs.
Also, I highly doubt that Jobs decreed $1 per song, I'm sure Apple did some market research and determined what customers thought was reasonable, but still give Apple a healthy profit margin. Based on their volume of sales, it kind of looks like hit the sweet spot.
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Oh jeez, come on! That's like asking when the last time water was wet. Just the other day on Fox they were talking about how when Barack Obama bumped fists with his wife and they called him a terrorist (link). Or how about that picture of him when he was dressed up in traditional Somali garb (=90% Christian), claiming he was dressing up as an muslim (link, etc. etc. etc. Face it, the modern conservative political view is synonymous with character assassination. You can thank Rove, and the other Republican attack dogs for that.
For a long time now, I've wondered about license or copyright on the community models for a game like, e.g., Neverwinter Nights, who owns the copyright? If this is to be believed, no one does. Maybe now we can get an open source MMORPG that looks decent. Of course, the bitmaps are images so are probably copyrighted, which is a huge part of the work but maybe there's hope.
According to Wikipedia, the original lunar rover did about 8 mph. I don't think they mentioned in the video how fast the chariot goes, but it looked pretty slow compared to the rate people were walking next to it. Wouldn't that kind of limit the range they could cover in some practical amount of time? Unless they're planning on outfitting that thing as the lunar equivalent of an RV. Or maybe this is just because it's the prototype and the real one will be faster.
The answer is: it's a mixture of incompetence, inattentiveness and ignorance. Sensitive information really ought to be treated... sensitively.
What is the U.S. Army doing to protect U.S. sensitive information from the frequent number of cyber-attacks originating from inside the People's Republic of China? Is it primarily defensive?
I know many native chinese and have even been to Beijing. I can say that you should take Mandarin if you want to learn more about Chinese culture or because you want to travel there, not because your afraid of China becoming a super-power. They're not super-powering anywhere yet.
The same cultural factors that cause them to ship lead paint based toys and glycol laced toothpaste affects them too. It's called corruption. For one thing, the whole place is an environmental disaster. For another, if you look at building quality there it's the same thing -- buildings in China that have been made 15 years ago look like they were made 50 years ago, with water stains and poor quality maintenance. A good example of this? Look at the school buildings that fell down in the earthquake, bricks that fell apart like sand, rotten supports, etc. etc. etc. Classic corruption at work. This also extends to their military.
Let's put it this way, in the U.S. we have occasional overt corruption of politicians and government officials (notably the current administration and their no-bid contracts to Halliburton in Iraq, etc.), and some institutionalized corruption such as lobbying, but it's nothing like China. Imagine politicians like Bush and Cheney, or the democratic congressman with the $90k in his refrigerator were the norm. from the state to local level. Nothing would work, everyone would be promoted due to loyalty rather than competence. In the U.S. there's been tremendous damage just from seven years of the current adminstration, but think about what the country would look like after 50 years of it: that's China. So yeah, if the Chinese were to suddenly change their culture and make it dishonorable to be corrupt rather than just get caught, we'd have problems but as it is China is going nowhere fast.
Most of the "newsy" articles come from AP and Reuters. That's one of the reasons I love to watch Jon Stewart's show, he does these montages of the cable news morons where he shows off just how silly and repetitive they are. I just laugh, how can anyone take cable news seriously after that? They've got one up right now about Clinton's concession speech and Obama's VP choice.
It is funny, but he or she has been doing that for years and years and years. In fact, that's all he or she does with this account.
I agree. I'm no real gamer (I just gave up nwn, which was released in 2001) but I thought this one was worth the $20. I didn't even mind the combat system which my previous experiences with that type of combat on consoles at friends houses left me dissatisfied (just not my thing). I liked how you had to plan your attacks and timing for various characters vs. certain NPCs. At the same time though, it wasn't so complicated that I felt overwhelmed. In other words, for a casual gamer like me, it was just the thing.
I also GREATLY appreciated that they released it on linux and mac os x at the same time as that other platform that games are usually written for. Plus, how many games do you know of that you get to beat up hobos, mimes and clowns with a rake?
What the hell is with this rash of comments lately criticizing the moderator tags? You know...satire or comedy can be informative as well as funny, and mods are certainly allowed to have a different opinion. So stop being a mod-nazi already.
In support of parent, all you have to do is look at the graph linked to here. Not only do people with lower incomes fare much better under Democratic presidents, but every income category fare better under Democratic presidents (except possibly the top 1% which are not listed).
They might be replacing binary files that they can't run a patch on, or maybe there's some other reason... but regardless you can be reasonably assured that they won't just put 500 Mb download for no good reason.
P.S. You'd be surprised how many people like to play drunks in RPGs, I think it must be because it's more acceptable to that because "it's only role-playing".
Nice idea! I was thinking the opposite: I've got an old mac laptop that I'm thinking of using as a DHCP server for some windows machines that drive some instruments that I don't want on the internet because of the security hassle. (Yeah yeah, I know windows can be made to be safe, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn how to do that, macs and linux are easier and I know how to do it already.) Apple makes this easy, I use the wifi connection to the local DHCP server, and then share the connection over the ethernet port to a hub.
Also, I know the submitter already has plenty of tinkering computers lying around, but I have to plug my favorite old laptop shop, ifixit. The reason I like them is because they'll sell you refurbished parts for just about any apple laptop and they have great step by step instructions full of pictures to on how to replace it. I've replaced the logic board on my titanium DVI G4 and am currently working on a powerbook lombard 400 MHz that won't recognize the battery. The nice thing about the lombard is that it's built like a tank and it's got those ports on the side that you can switch modular components out of, which means you can put two batteries in instead of a battery and a CD drive and you get something like 10 hours of battery life. Not too shabby. Also, enlighenment (e17) and debian runs great on it once you turn off the dropshadow and some of the other graphics intensive stuff, and get the wireless working.
Nah... NeoOffice still runs a large part of OOo code. Mostly the differences on the front end are in using native widgets instead of the OOo ones (why reinvent the wheel?). The irony here is that the guys doing NeoOffice tried to work with Sun to do this when they started but the people at Sun weren't cooperative. NeoOffice is running what OpenOffice.org should have done a long, long, long time ago and only now have decided this is necessary.
A floppy drive? You had it easy. In my day we had to use write our ones and zeros on a giant blackboard and programmed directly in electricity.
Also, remember that Sam Brownback was one of three repbublican presidential candidates who does not believe in evolution. That tells me he is either a liar or stupid. Either way you can't trust him. My guess he feels the Latino xenophobia is wearing out so now he thinks the Chinese would make a better target.
It could also be that the recession is making people buy less new computers. I suppose you'd have to look at overall desktop sales. According to this, growth in U.S. sales were down to +3.5% last quarter (yes still growing, but growth is slow), but worldwide growth in PC sales are still up. So I suppose there's some truth in the people are switching to alternate OSes argument or installing corporate licenses.
It's not the entire U.S. government that's the problem. Usually the government keeps pretty good records. The problem is this administration believes itself above law and order. It also has infected large portions of other parts of the government with it's political appointees whose only quality is loyalty the administration. Whatever was on those e-mails was likely to be more damning the "hand slap" they're getting now for erasing, er "losing" the e-mails. I suppose it could have been an innocent mix-up, but if the administration is so incompetent that they can't make back-ups of data they're required to, I suppose it's no suprise they've failed miserably in just about every other enterprise they've attempted in the last seven years (except of course, smearing their opponents, they're rather good at that).
No shit! Sounds to me like he had already made up his mind before he even walked into the store. In any case, if I wrote up all my bad experiences at Best Buy and how terrible or snotty the sales clerks were there, would I get a +5 informative too? (Actually, I probably would, as most people know that service at Best Buy sucks balls.) As for ipods on linux: mine works just fine, even using hfsplus as the file system. Yeah okay it does take some work to get it running but a lot of things in linux take some work to get running (e.g. wireless) so it's par for the course.
Apple memory is expensive, but having bought the wrong ram for the onboard video when I built my home machine (running Debian), I'm happy to let them bother about finding what ram to use. But, you do know don't you that the memory in apple computers is the same as everywhere else right? That means if you're so inclined you can buy it from newegg or whatever. They even tell you what kind to buy in the instruction manual that comes with the machine.
As for replacing stuff: you're out of you mind if you think that replacing things for powerbooks is difficult (well, maybe the display). This place will sell you just a refurbished part for just about any apple laptop within the last 10 years or so. Not only that, they have free instructions on how to replace the part on the site. I used this myself just a few months ago to replace the logic board in my 2002 Tibook that I beat to hell biking to work with it every day for four years and now it runs like new. Incidentally, adding a hard-drive or additional card to a desktop is trivially easy. You don't even need a screw-driver, I just added a 1 TB drive I bought on newegg to my desktop. (Compare that to pounding on the old dells and the huge number of cuts just to remove the cover.) As for service calls, the applecare work just fine: one phone call and a box shows up at your door the next day, put the computer in the box, a few days later you have your PC back.
The other thing that struck me as strange about the parent's post is that this pricing scheme the RIAA is suggesting is exactly the opposite of the way manufacturing usually works. That is, higher volume usually means lower pricing because the engineering and startup costs are smaller per unit. So if the latest and greatest pop song is selling like hot cakes, it should cost less, not more. For an electronic song, given that the bandwidth costs are small per unit, the big costs are going to be the production and marketing of the song, which would still go down per unit sold. It looks to me that the RIAA's pricing scheme is them just trying to make people pay whatever they can. My own experience has been consistent with this, because I buy very rare music (i.e., artist names that start with the Ensemble such and such, or are remastered versions of recordings from the earlier part of the 20th century) and often I have to pay a premium for these CDs.
Also, I highly doubt that Jobs decreed $1 per song, I'm sure Apple did some market research and determined what customers thought was reasonable, but still give Apple a healthy profit margin. Based on their volume of sales, it kind of looks like hit the sweet spot.