I think the point is, Linus would rather the guy not do any work than to continue to produce such garbage code. He would rather make every change himself, than to rely on fellow-programmers who will only make things worse.
There's a term for people with attitudes like this; who express them by public tantrums: A Prima Donna.
Ok, I'll bite: How is an email in a private mailing list a "public tantrum"?
Most people I know who have genuine, diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome already call themselves Autistic. They use the term Asperger's sparingly, only to explain afterwards, once they are sure the other person understands where they're coming from. They do so because so many assholes on the Internet have latched onto Asperger's Syndrome as a synonym for being a socially maladjusted asshole of various varieties.
On the other hand, Most people I know who have self-diagnosed, "Internet Asperger's" -- the "I'm a dick but it's MEDICAL so you can't call me out on my bad behavior" syndrome that so many forum twits have -- well, they can go fuck themselves. I would think this would finally put the nail in the coffin for that particular misuse, but I've already seen the various "Assburgers" trolls start to call themselves Autistic instead.
Such is life on the interwebs.
lol. you're naive. Looks like you never actually read an ISP contract. The only thing guaranteed in it is that you pay the ISP. Everything else is at the discretion of the ISP.
Only in the US. The UK and rest of the EU have sane consumer protection laws.
With Eve Online and X3 available, is there real need for rebooting the space sim genre? I would understand the concern if there really was no games available, but there are and they're both pretty great. On top of that I wouldn't want to touch single player space sim anymore. Eve is just that good.
Well, X3 is showing it's age -- which is why they're rebooting it.
I don't mean gameplay or even artistically -- the game's engine cannot support enough ram to handle the full simulation anymore. When you play the latest X3 games you are literally in a race against time before the game's engine craps out. This is even moreso with the not-quite-official-but-encouraged Xtended updates.
not taking money from someone != giving the rich money. Unless you dont believe you own any money and the government gives you an allowance.
Tax cuts are equally damaging to the budget as expenditures. Only in Wingnuttia are tax cuts budget neutral.
Oooh, they finally managed to kill one man half way around the world from me! I feel so much safer now that Bin Laden is gone... the chance of dying from a terrorist attack may have been well below 0.00001% before but... I bet it's down to, like, half of that now!
Say... how much did it cost to wage the war that killed this one man?
Almost 25% of what Bush's tax giveaway to the rich cost. Although that one's ongoing.
... that would be the appearance of safety. I don't think anything that has been done has actually added any significant safety.
But I wouldn't be surprised if this was an attempt to go after people with modded consoles that went terribly awry.
No. It's a partially completed feature, a Hardcore mode that either wasn't finished or left to be padded out as DLC. There's some code left in the game for it, including a check to see if anyone has the mode enabled, but since it wasn't finished it just enables it.
Bit of faulty logic, easily fixed, although apparently the game outright deletes your character data upon death with the mode enabled, so if you have already been nailed by it, too bad.
see, that's were the misunderstanding lies: wikipedia summarises quite well:
Under U.S. law, typefaces and the characters they contain are considered to be utilitarian objects whose utility outweighs any merit that may exist in protecting their creative elements. Typefaces are exempt from copyright protection in the United States (Code of Federal Regulations, Ch 37, Sec. 202.1(e); Eltra Corp. vs. Ringer). However, this finding was limited in Adobe Systems, Inc. v. Southern Software, Inc., wherein it was held that scalable computer fonts, i.e., the instructions necessary to render a typeface, constitute a "computer program" for the purposes of copyright law and hence are subject to protection. Hence the computer file(s) associated with a scalable font will generally be protected even though the specific design of the characters is not.
So in the US I would assume Boers has not claim, but you still can not distribute those CDs
Ah, so you can get around this copyright by simply downloading a PNG (or some form of open Vector format file) of the font, and then converting that to an actual font file?
No more comic sans? Please?
Having said this, you'll be pleased to note that yes, there is a Comic Sans Dyslexic version, with the same "weighting" as Gill Dyslexic adds to Gill.
Internet Rule 135 -- Any sufficiently bad idea provided as an example of what not to do will be done by someone, if only to say someone did it.
Internet Rule 135, Corollary A -- This goes doubly true for MMORPG players.
I'm torn on this. On the one hand, the OpenDyslexic guy specifically states he intended his project to infringe on the other Dyslexic fonts.
On the other hand, This Christian Boer guy comes across as having tried to stake a claim on the very idea of using a weighted font to combat Dyslexia.
On the, er, foot, the comparison image [apathyonline.net] that Boer shows off does have quite a few similarities. And beyond merely the "well duh, they're the same letters" level of similarities.
On the er, other foot, Holy cow, did not know that you cannot copyright a font. That explains all those $10 CDs with 5000 fonts on them and the like. I presume this means I can go find a copy of WildWord for free online instead of having to pay $TEXAS to replace the old digital download files I lost back in the day?
You push the power button on the Kindle Fire and the screen turns off. You push it again and the screen comes on and you're looking at the lock screen with adds - swipe the screen and the lock screen and ads go away. They are not displayed on the screen when the device is off.
On the e-ink displays the ads are displayed when the Kindle is turned off, but it requires no power to maintain the screen in that state - every once in a while the device wakes up, updates the ad and goes back to sleep - it uses very tiny amounts of power and has almost on impact on expected battery life.
You push the power button on the Kindle Fire and the screen turns off. You push it again and the screen comes on and you're looking at the lock screen with adds - swipe the screen and the lock screen and ads go away. They are not displayed on the screen when the device is off.
On the e-ink displays the ads are displayed when the Kindle is turned off, but it requires no power to maintain the screen in that state - every once in a while the device wakes up, updates the ad and goes back to sleep - it uses very tiny amounts of power and has almost on impact on expected battery life.
The Fire thing sounds perfectly fine then. That's almost an ideal way to set it up, in fact, I'm surprised there isn't a "Special Offers" iPhone or iPod with the same setup.
The eInk thing, well, I own a Gen 2 Kindle, and my friend owns a newer one with Special Offers, and I know for a fact that his battery lasts nowhere near as long as mine, all other things considered.
I wonder why ads bother people so much. Especially on the kindle where the ads are unobtrusive (you only see them on the power-off screensaver). My kindle came with ads disabled, and I got bored with the default images of authors, so I turned the ads on to get $50 refunded to my account.
It's on the lock screen, which means that like the eInk model, your battery life will be crippled because these ads will be displayed and cycled when in theory your device should be idle (in the case of the eInk versions) or have the screen off (in the case of the LCD versions).
I think we can all understand where Amazon is coming from here -- although given that we pay good money for the device kinda harms their case somewhat. However, I would really have preferred they find a different way to do this.
For example, a faux "loading" screen the first time you unlock the device after ~15 minutes which displays an ad. Book themed ads in the UI. That sort of thing.
Never heard of it
We're all getting old.
Penny Arcade is a gamer webcomic, I believe the first gamer webcomic -- if not the first, then definitely the most successful.
E3 was an expo for Electronic Entertainment (games), but a few years back they decided to throw out the dirty hippies (gamers), which understandably pissed a large number of people off. On the other hand, it was completely out of control and the focus (a press event) was lost.
So, deciding that was quite absurd, the Penny Arcade guys decided to have their own Expo, and the timing was just right that all the people not allowed to go to E3, went to PAX. And it kind of exploded from there. PAX is now "the" place to get hype about your upcoming game / console / etc set up, especially among the actual consumers.
It's also a great place to trade Pokemon and Dragon Quest 9 maps.
I didn't know what to tell him... the only thing I could come up with was something like "...but... what about all the bones...?"
Oh oh oh, I know this one: "They were sent there by Satan to confuse and test us."
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
