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Ailleann - Nov 28, 2007 6:33:52 am PST #3601 of 25497

vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

OK, I guess this could fit here?

I'm wondering if anyone has played the new Assassin's Creed game. A friend and I are probably going to go together to get another friend an XBOX 360 game for Christmas, and I think it looks pretty awesome. But reviews are mixed...

amych - Nov 28, 2007 6:35:46 am PST #3602 of 25497

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I haven't played it yet (cantwaitcantwaitcantwaitNEXTWEEKcantwait), but the reviews I've seen have been overwhelmingly positive -- what have you heard otherwise?

Ailleann - Nov 28, 2007 6:52:40 am PST #3603 of 25497

vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

IGN gave it, like, a 7.2, said it was trite and boring.

But I don't know anything about IGN, they could be talking out of their ass. The user comments were much more positive.

Dana - Nov 28, 2007 6:53:56 am PST #3604 of 25497

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

GameSpot (where we usually go for game reviews) liked it:

[link]

Theodosia - Nov 28, 2007 11:21:32 am PST #3605 of 25497

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

FWIW, my HP Pavilion came with Vista Home Premium and actually runs just fine, but then it came with 3 Gigs of memory to start with, so I may be in more of a situation that the OS was actually designed for. It may also help that I didn't convert it from an XP machine or whatnot.

bon bon - Nov 28, 2007 3:23:02 pm PST #3606 of 25497

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Is anyone familiar with or can explain what is meant by a distribution of software in "binary form"? Is it distinguished from compiled/executable?

tommyrot - Nov 28, 2007 3:27:56 pm PST #3607 of 25497

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Binary means it's both compiled and executable. (Although not all executables are binary. eta: I suppose in the Windows world, 'executables' refers to compiled binary programs. But in the *nix, OS X world, executable can mean uncompiled scripts.)

bon bon - Nov 28, 2007 3:31:18 pm PST #3608 of 25497

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Thank you! That is really helpful.

bon bon - Nov 28, 2007 4:12:47 pm PST #3609 of 25497

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

OK, here's another question. This is for a work project. I won't die if no one responds, but maybe someone will enjoy the chase. Anyway, I am looking for copyrights for the following: CL/xpparse.2c and CL/xpyacc.tab.c, both distributed by the Free Software Foundation, and java-getopt-1.0.12.jar., glibC, and libstdc++, distributed by GNU. I've been searching for literally weeks, but it's hard to do via the WWW.

tommyrot - Nov 28, 2007 4:21:13 pm PST #3610 of 25497

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Hmm. Maybe your best bet would be to download all those programs in source code versions. Those would contain files of the license agreement.

I don't know if this would be of any help: [link]

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