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>> The Steam installer allows you to choose where to install it.
>
> Cool. I'll remember that.
>
> Of course, with Steam, you can just uninstall everything, reinstall to a
> different drive, and then re-download the games, not losing anything at
> all.
Not quite true: You lose any saved games, for example. And you have to
re-download several GB of data, which could take several days.
What you can do instead is do a "game backup", and then later a "game
restore". This is officially supported, and there are instructions
somewhere...
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>> Maybe not, that's sounds like a good idea! If you can aim and modulate it
>> right a one-second high intensity burst might do the job on a
>> computerised
>> injection and ignition system...
>
> And your brain. You realize it's basically microwaves, right? Like from
> your oven?
Didn't the USA come up with a crowd dispersal device which *actually
does this*??
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>> Actually, from what I remember of the Technical Manual, it's not a 1:1
>> multiplicative correlation between warp speed and c, more like
>> exponential. Warp 1 *is* c, but warp 10 is 'occupies every point in
>> universe simultaneously' and requires theoretically infinite
>> energy...warp 9 is Really Really fast. Because just 10x the speed of
>> light still leaves months, if not *years* between most stars.
>
> ... and it tears holes into the subspace, though they kept that secret
> until some seasons into TNG. What was the speed limit after that? Warp
> 5? Or was it Warp 3?
>
> But then again, Warp isn't a multiple of c anyway, it's a level of
> distortion of spacetime (hey, it messes seriously with /normal space/,
> so how could they possibly expect to not affect /subspace/?) while you'd
> still travel sub-lightspeed, possess a finite real mass, and just need
> to travel a significantly shorter distance.
Until they invented the Trans-Warp Drive...
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>> Really? I would have thought running around requires *lots* of muscle
>> power. (That's why I can't do it, for example...)
>
> Comparatively speaking. Running doesn't take unusual amounts of muscle
> power. Running when three 300-pound linebackers are holding you down
> takes unusual amounts of muscle power.
Compared to sitting still watching the game on TV, it involves *a lot*
of muscle. ;-) And I can't really imagine that baseball requires less
muscle power than football...
> If you can't run fast, it's because you're doing it wrong. Don't think
> about your legs. Start running, then move your arms as fast as you can.
> Running is in the arms, not the legs. (Hence the "runs like a girl"
> concept.)
I rephrase: I can run very, very fast indeed. I can't do this for more
than a few seconds, however.
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>> After about 4 years the tape would wear out, but that's hardly a big
>> deal assuming you notice this and replace the tape.
>
> And if you replace the disk drive on the same basis, you'll have better
> reliability. :-)
Doubt it, but I don't have any numbers to prove anything either way, so
it's an empty argument.
>> I *have*, however, had endless issues with BackupExec not actually
>> ****ing working properly! >_<
>
> That's the other problem. When's the last time you copied a file, then
> went to open it and found it wasn't there?
The problems were more that you'd configure BE to perform a backup, and
then next day it has crashed rather than perform a backup. VERY helpful.
In fairness, when was the last time you tried copying a file that
somebody else was still using? Not so easy, is it?
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:10:55 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> In fairness, when was the last time you tried copying a file that
> somebody else was still using? Not so easy, is it?
Trivial on Linux. And on NetWare under the right conditions - file
flagged shareable, no op-locks in use...
Jim
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Correct me - isn't Unix that OS that allows you to put *any* arbitrary
> octet sequence into a filename so long as it doesn't contain NUL or "/"?
Yes. This is what makes getting real production scripts really working a
living hell on UNIX. :-) Try to delete files more than a week old out of
/tmp without ever giving anyone the opportunity to delete /etc/passwd, for
example.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Didn't the USA come up with a crowd dispersal device which *actually
> does this*??
Something like that, yes. Actually, it was for the military. The civilian
police use the one that's just loud. :-)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Compared to sitting still watching the game on TV, it involves *a lot*
> of muscle. ;-) And I can't really imagine that baseball requires less
> muscle power than football...
I think you haven't watched a lot of football. It's not like they don't run
in football either. Indeed, other than the guys hitting the balls, I think
most of the running involves coming in from the outfield and going back out
again in the next inning. I suspect football players run more in 10 minutes
than a whole ball team runs in an entire game.
> I rephrase: I can run very, very fast indeed. I can't do this for more
> than a few seconds, however.
That's just practice. Really. When I first started doing stairmaster
exercise, I couldn't go for more than 5 minutes or so. Within maybe 3 weeks
of trying three times a day, a full half hour at a higher difficulty setting
isn't even difficult.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> In fairness, when was the last time you tried copying a file that
> somebody else was still using? Not so easy, is it?
Uh, yeah, it is, actually. Want my scripts to do it?
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