Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?
Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?
I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.
It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Technically, what he’s doing is election fraud.
Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.
A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:
They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.
*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.
Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.
I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.
There’s a board game called History of the World that does something like this, where score is tracked per player, but you play as a new civilization every turn. (And, depending on the draw, may wind up fighting against your previous civ.)
It’s a good game, but, yeah, it’s hard to imagine that working in something like Civilization.
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
The thing that is absolute is a predicate of the form “if [axioms] then [theorems]”.
And the fun thing about if statements is that they can be true even when the premise is false.
You say that as though he isn’t one of them.
Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.
apropos
is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.
No, it’s the national symbol of Ukraine.
Fascists love to try to co-opt national symbolism, and sometimes they succeed, but ceding ownership of a 1000 year old symbol (it was used as a seal in Kievan Rus) because some assholes adopted it in 1993 is just letting the fascists win.
One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.
If not, that would go some way to explaining why they seem to be so fascinated by them.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.