Well, it's one of the "Things the average person is better off not knowing about modern agriculture."
A lot of the "modern" breeds aren't viable without human intervention. The good-natured people tend to think that letting cows and the like simply live off the land and care for themselves would "free" them, somehow. In reality, they would die out - painfully.
... which might be for the best in the long term anyway, but then we should be human enough to offer them a quick and painless death.
I'm playing Minecraft on a mac, and I'm using a Logitech Revolution MX. When scrolling in the game, it flicks through my items very quickly, rather than one item-per-click scrolling than I get in Windows. Is there any way to get sensible scrolling through items?
@MarkTrapp (cc @lesspop) yes, yes I closed it from the not-mobile-optimized flag handling interface with my sister's mobile while only having internet access for a couple hours per couple days, but you don't probably give a damn. The only way un make no mistakes is doing nothing at all, which would be exceedingly easy for me right now. I'm glad my efforts are appreciated ;)
also. It was a question with no verbs at the present tense. When will that happen, what will that do - that is not what we want in the general case and if the question can after all be answered then it is likely it is best rewritten to the present tense
I still respectfully disagree with the general line of thought that moderators are expected to act perfectly or not at all. We're still carbon-based living beings.
I suddenly found an enchanted bow with Power I in my inventory. I did not craft it myself since I don't have an enchantment table. I'm playing on a private server with 2-3 friends and none of them made one either. And I'm pretty sure I did not find it in a chest somewhere. I just randomly found i...
Hell, when I went to Japan for two weeks earlier, I just didn't go online. :) I could - it's still Japan, after all - but I wanted my vacations. :D I suggest everyone does the same now and then, just drop "off the 'net" for a few weeks to relax.
@Wipqozn "Sweetie, find good quality HD rips of My Little Pony." "uh, okay." /watches one to vet the quality "hey, this is pretty good" /watches the rest of the season
I'm curious that most console controllers released these days - and all handheld consoles - contain four main buttons rather than two. Obviously increases in processing power, graphics engines etc, have allowed for more complex games, but is there an argument to be made that two buttons are reall...
I am going away on a cycling holiday to the Alps and need to take my bike on the plane with me. Has anyone had experience taking bikes on planes and how did you protect your bike?
Can anyone recommend anything which will solve this problem?
@fbueckert Not really, but it is a game dev. question. So it's off-topic here, but it's a bad question anyways. It's just way too broad, vague, and subjective.
@badp The worst part was that I suggested purchasing a NAS share and moving all his critical data off to it then doing a reload, and his reply was "BUT AREN'T WE ON RAID?!"
If I had a dollar for every time I've uttered "RAID is not a backup solution", I would not need to be gainfully employed.
@RilgonArcsinh ... so why isn't /var on its own partition, besides somebody just taking the default installation options and running with it without thinking?
I generally use /, /usr (ro besides for updates), /var (noexec, nosuid), /tmp (tmpfs, noexec, nosuid), /home bound to /var/home and /var/tmp bound to /tmp
Oh we don't care if people change OSes; 80% of our server fleet has IPMIs, and we outright have a KB article on how to do so
We just have a clause that basically says "normally we're unmanaged with some best-effort-if-we-have-time tech support, but if you install your own OS, fuck you, network/power/hardware only"
(granted if I had my way I'd make every instance of "unmanaged" on our website be 72pt impact just to drive the fact home because no one seems to get it)
(no I really do not care that "ALL WEBSITE DOWN, LOSE MILLION OF DOLLAR EVER HOUR" just because you fucked up your iptables config, sorry)
That said, my attitude is based on the customer's - people who willingly admit to fucking up and ask for some quick remote hands and eyes usually get it no questions asked
but if you try to blame us for your screwup, you're getting nailed to the policy wall
@RilgonArcsinh it is YOUR FAULT that I changed these options that said DO NOT CHANGE. I DEMAND THAT YOU FIX IT IMMEDIATELY! I AM PERSONAL FRIENDS WITH YOUR BOSS!
Kinda. Important parts: 1. Don't change %ProgramFiles% or any of its contents, 2. Don't make it ignore updating the software. Let me try something, moment.
Ok, I tested it out. Copying minecraft.exe to %AppData%\.minecraft, then doing the symlink as follows allows you to run this game, it seems: mklink %AppData%\minecraftjava.exe %ProgramFiles%\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe %AppData%\minecraftjava.exe -jar %AppData%\.minecraft\minecraft.exe
@njallam Done. Also, the dialogue allows you to input %AppData% in the location bar (top of the window) , so you don't have to remember it. You might want to change Point 6 of the guide to reflect that.
Anyway, "change needs to be peer reviewed to appear." ;)
In the final level, I try to lead all enemies to a specific point using barricades - that works very well, except for Fire Babies. These babies are destroying my barricades.
What is a good strategy to prevent them doing this? Beside killing them as early as possible, obviously.
I recently got medic up to level 5, which entitles me to spawn with body armour, making it my number one choice at the beginning of the game.
However, the medi-gun isn't exactly the strongest weapon, so to get around this I save up for a crossbow or eventually even a grenade launcher in the late...
One thing kind of confusing about that meta question is that it's not really a question. You might have had better success phrasing a short question, then proposing a solution as an answer.
Right now it (I think) seems to basically be written as "Should we do X?"
stop when it gets mentioned in chat, after completing everything I currently have open, and completely dependant on whether or not my ADD kicks in immediately after I have been told to stop
(in which case I continue until the echo'ing noise in my mind becomes comprehendable again and I realise I should have stopped)
and then claim "OH I've already stopped! Stop worrying..."
@pixel I'd suggest that if you rely on the community to determine reasonableness of tag burning, you've probably already done a bit too much by the time it gets mentioned.
@pixel Well, "and" is great for alliterations. And rhythm. And making written text sound more like speech. And ... adding a little pause. And pissing off English majors with no sense for poetry.
@MartinSojka I could also start every sentence with but - something that I specifically edit out of every post I find on here. Sentences starting with but. Reading some of the blog posts made by stack exchange people makes me cry.
Obviously, turrets prioritize minions unless a friendly champ takes damage from an enemy champ within the turret's range, and if there are no minions the turret will target the first enemy champ to come within range. My question is this - if there are multiple enemy champs within range as the las...
To use it or not is a specific literary trick. Take two chars talking - and make one start most of his or her sentences with "And...", "But ..." and "Uh ...", and people will find it easier to identify one from the other - and assign labels to them too, mostly dealing with intelligence and education levels.
@Wipqozn A British woman said to a friend of mine, "You know we invented the language, right?" after he corrected her grammar. His response was, "Yeah, but we perfected it."
@fbueckert I dunno, it's hard to call them exact dupes, but they do seem exceedingly similar. (I'm willing to put my money on GPU overheating or RAM problems)
@RilgonArcsinh Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. The questions aren't dupes, per say, but the problem is the exact same. I don't think he believes us, though, when we tell him something is overheating.
I'm playing Minecraft on a mac, and I'm using a Logitech Revolution MX. When scrolling in the game, it flicks through my items very quickly, rather than one item-per-click scrolling than I get in Windows. Is there any way to get sensible scrolling through items?
I am going away on a cycling holiday to the Alps and need to take my bike on the plane with me. Has anyone had experience taking bikes on planes and how did you protect your bike?
Can anyone recommend anything which will solve this problem?
