( actually it is amazing how these kids get so much done working little on 17 inch monitors )
17" monitor is little? I almost fell off my chair. I used a 14" CRT for years. The laptop I had to use back then had a monochrome screen that was *maybe* 7".
Uh, it does say it the EULA, and it doesn't specifically exclude third-party products - this was a part of an update for their software)[emphasis mine]:
2.4 Internet Gaming/Update Features. If you choose to utilize the Internet gaming or update features within the Software, it is necessary to use certain computer system, hardware, and software information to implement the features. By using these features, you explicitly authorize Microsoft or its designated agent to access and utilize the necessary information for Internet gaming and/or updating purposes. Microsoft may use this information solely to improve our software or to provide customized services or technologies to you. Microsoft may disclose this information to others, but not in a form that personally identifies you.
I read this as them allowing to install software and updates. It would likely fall under the improve our software bit (third party web browser support.)
It's like buying a car with 12 cylinders and having a switch hidden under the hood somewhere that controls the number of cylinders used. You buy the budget model, still have to cart around the weight of all 12 cylinders, but only get to use 4 of them.
With the price of gas six months ago, people would've been quite happy to be restricted to four cylinders!
the other difference between a gun and a hammer is that when both are held by an attacker and an intended victim, only the gun offers either a level field or possibly gives the victim an advantage, where the hammer gives the advantage to whoever is strongest and most violent.
The inherent problem with guns is it's too easy to kill someone. Gun accidentally goes off? Someone could die. Hit your hand with the hammer? You're sore but alive. Hammers could possibly be close range weapons. With guns, someone gets mad, grabs a gun, and starts shooting a hail of bullets.
I'm usually surprised at everyone's response: "Well, if the guy down the street has a gun, then I need one to protect myself!" If there weren't guns, then this wouldn't be a problem.
People in the US always seems to forget why guns were invented: to kill. It doesn't matter if it was for offense or defense. That's its only purpose. Hammers, knives, etc. have other primary uses.
My mythtv and linux-based server and workstation at home stayed up.
At work, the server running Exchange 2007 had the Information Store service stop, so no mail was sent or received. I didn't notice it until this morning. At least we didn't get spam for a day and a half. Not sure if it's related; it could be.
You don't own any of this stuff. You license a right to use it.
If you do purchase a license, there has to be a license agreement for the media. To my knowledge, there isn't. EULAs are dodgy as it is, but right now when you buy the media, it's yours. There's no mention of a "license" when you initially put in a CD to play it, is there?
So then you burn your music to CDs and then rip it.
This is not a good solution - you are taking something that has been compressed already, burning it to a CD, and ripping and compressing it again. This will degrade the audio.
Unless you find something that can remove it without having to do this, it's not a solution. It's easier to not buy it in the first place.
- It's considerably more stable (on linux) than vmware is. In my experience vmware crashed about 30% of the times I used it, I even got a total system crash once that needed a hard reset (I think due to problems with compiz?). It uses quite an intrusive kernel module that creates a lot of latency in the kernel. This manifests itself mostly as skipping audio when audio is playing. Virtualbox has none of these problems, it's rock solid stable and doesn't hog the cpu like vmware does.
I've been using vmware-server on linux for about a year and a half and I've never seen one crash. At the time, it was the only package that I could find that would allow a guest to use more than one core. It's been rock stable (guests are linux and windows xp.) My old PC couldn't do real-time video playback, but the new PC can. That was about the only restriction I had. I only had 1GB of RAM in the old machine as well, and a slow processor compared to current C2D/AMD64 processors.
A slight tug on a cord (which you can imagine happens during gameplay) and that thing will topple over easily possibly breaking itself.
The 360 comes with wireless controllers. Tugging on a cord during gameplay would be rather impossible, no?
I know there are corded controllers available (I have RB1&2 myself, corded guitar and drums) but I've never tugged on the cord during play. It'd be easier to do that with the guitar, but you'd have to be seriously beating the hell out of the drums and knock them across the room or something.
if she constructed her own list then it might be spam. in any other context it certainly would be spam, but students DO have an implicit right to contact their teachers which makes it a grey area rather than clear cut.
I consider this spam. She sent this to almost 400 instructors. When I went I had maybe 25 instructors.
If she had sent this to only her instructors and not everyone she more than likely wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
I don't consider what she did to be an effective way to send a message.
I'd be even happier if I could get the Cordless Optical Trackman in a corded form. The other corded trackballs they have don't even compare in comfort to this one; yet I can't get a corded version. I despise wireless keyboards and mice, is it too much to ask?
Trackballs don't move, so why on earth do they need to be cordless? Some people say they don't like to see the cord (or something similarly stupid), but every desk I've had had a keyboard drawer big enough for a keyboard plus mouse and all the cords are hidden from sight. Feh.
I'm not sure, bouncing stones could be pretty painful.
Depends where it bounces off of. If it bounces off the head you may be unconscious for a while, not necessarily in pain. Lower down, not only will you be in pain, you be talking like the chipmunks too.
I am also a Gentoo user, using a QX9650 and 4GB of RAM. I did see I/O waits with my system, and then installed my root filesystem on a RAID 1+0.
The system compiles noticeably faster now - as an example openoffice 2.4.x compiles from source in about 43 minutes on my machine. Prior to that it was over an hour.
I've known employees who have dropped them in the toilet and they still functioned afterwards
Methinks if I dropped something like that in the toilet it'd be flushed away with the rest of the contents. I certainly wouldn't reach in there and then tell someone about it!;)
Generally, I've had pretty much nothing but good things to say about CFL bulbs, they last for bloody ever, you can get a nice white light(if you like that sort of thing which I do), they're cheaper to run, and they're good for the environment, ticks all the boxes for me.
I've had mixed results with them. Two years ago I replaced my bulbs with CFLs. One year ago over half of the CFLs died. Apparently turning the lights on and off a lot are not that good for them...
I had to put my 8 year old incandescent bulbs back in, and I never bothered getting more CFLs.
You are right about the variety of lights you can get with the CFLs. I had three different kinds of light (depending what room they were in.)
And I'd seriously question the "good for the environment" part. Most people do what they normally do with bulbs and toss them in the garbage. Considering that mercury is used in them, I can't see how this is better for the environment.
That being said, I think we need to simply do away with DST (though that does not mean having Standard time year-round, but having a consistent time and none of this springing forwards or falling backs would be ideal).
I second this. Why don't they just move the damn time permanently by thirty minutes and leave it the hell alone. Problem solved...
Older speakers were normally shielded to prevent discoloration on the CRTs used. My speakers are made by Altec Lansing around 1997-1998. They still work, so I just never bothered replacing them.
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17" monitor is little? I almost fell off my chair. I used a 14" CRT for years. The laptop I had to use back then had a monochrome screen that was *maybe* 7".
I read this as them allowing to install software and updates. It would likely fall under the improve our software bit (third party web browser support.)
It is there, as vague as it is...
With the price of gas six months ago, people would've been quite happy to be restricted to four cylinders!
Whatever happened to alpha/beta tagging?
4.0 should have been 4.0[.x]a (alpha)
4.1 should have been 4.0[.x]b (beta)
4.2 should have been 4.0
Actually, I read in one of the mailing lists somewhere he set up Gnome for his wife and kid(s)? I don't remember what distro, though.
The inherent problem with guns is it's too easy to kill someone. Gun accidentally goes off? Someone could die. Hit your hand with the hammer? You're sore but alive. Hammers could possibly be close range weapons. With guns, someone gets mad, grabs a gun, and starts shooting a hail of bullets.
I'm usually surprised at everyone's response: "Well, if the guy down the street has a gun, then I need one to protect myself!" If there weren't guns, then this wouldn't be a problem.
People in the US always seems to forget why guns were invented: to kill. It doesn't matter if it was for offense or defense. That's its only purpose. Hammers, knives, etc. have other primary uses.
My mythtv and linux-based server and workstation at home stayed up.
At work, the server running Exchange 2007 had the Information Store service stop, so no mail was sent or received. I didn't notice it until this morning. At least we didn't get spam for a day and a half. Not sure if it's related; it could be.
Metallica's known to sue it's fans. Not that I agree with what the fans did either...
If you do purchase a license, there has to be a license agreement for the media. To my knowledge, there isn't. EULAs are dodgy as it is, but right now when you buy the media, it's yours. There's no mention of a "license" when you initially put in a CD to play it, is there?
This is not a good solution - you are taking something that has been compressed already, burning it to a CD, and ripping and compressing it again. This will degrade the audio.
Unless you find something that can remove it without having to do this, it's not a solution. It's easier to not buy it in the first place.
I've been using vmware-server on linux for about a year and a half and I've never seen one crash. At the time, it was the only package that I could find that would allow a guest to use more than one core. It's been rock stable (guests are linux and windows xp.) My old PC couldn't do real-time video playback, but the new PC can. That was about the only restriction I had. I only had 1GB of RAM in the old machine as well, and a slow processor compared to current C2D/AMD64 processors.
The 360 comes with wireless controllers. Tugging on a cord during gameplay would be rather impossible, no?
I know there are corded controllers available (I have RB1&2 myself, corded guitar and drums) but I've never tugged on the cord during play. It'd be easier to do that with the guitar, but you'd have to be seriously beating the hell out of the drums and knock them across the room or something.
I consider this spam. She sent this to almost 400 instructors. When I went I had maybe 25 instructors.
If she had sent this to only her instructors and not everyone she more than likely wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
I don't consider what she did to be an effective way to send a message.
I'd be even happier if I could get the Cordless Optical Trackman in a corded form. The other corded trackballs they have don't even compare in comfort to this one; yet I can't get a corded version. I despise wireless keyboards and mice, is it too much to ask?
Trackballs don't move, so why on earth do they need to be cordless? Some people say they don't like to see the cord (or something similarly stupid), but every desk I've had had a keyboard drawer big enough for a keyboard plus mouse and all the cords are hidden from sight. Feh.
Depends where it bounces off of. If it bounces off the head you may be unconscious for a while, not necessarily in pain. Lower down, not only will you be in pain, you be talking like the chipmunks too.
I am also a Gentoo user, using a QX9650 and 4GB of RAM. I did see I/O waits with my system, and then installed my root filesystem on a RAID 1+0.
The system compiles noticeably faster now - as an example openoffice 2.4.x compiles from source in about 43 minutes on my machine. Prior to that it was over an hour.
Meh, if you think that's good... when I was dealing with my mother's estate, the lawyer's assistant's name was Sue. How fitting is that?
Methinks if I dropped something like that in the toilet it'd be flushed away with the rest of the contents. I certainly wouldn't reach in there and then tell someone about it! ;)
I've had mixed results with them. Two years ago I replaced my bulbs with CFLs. One year ago over half of the CFLs died. Apparently turning the lights on and off a lot are not that good for them...
I had to put my 8 year old incandescent bulbs back in, and I never bothered getting more CFLs.
You are right about the variety of lights you can get with the CFLs. I had three different kinds of light (depending what room they were in.)
And I'd seriously question the "good for the environment" part. Most people do what they normally do with bulbs and toss them in the garbage. Considering that mercury is used in them, I can't see how this is better for the environment.
I second this. Why don't they just move the damn time permanently by thirty minutes and leave it the hell alone. Problem solved...
Older speakers were normally shielded to prevent discoloration on the CRTs used. My speakers are made by Altec Lansing around 1997-1998. They still work, so I just never bothered replacing them.
LCDs don't have that problem.
So does this mean calling someone a fathead is a compliment now?
I'm pretty sure Rogers uses GSM networks.
When I go for lunch I'm going to try it, just for the hell of it. I'm curious now. ;)
Actually:
All you need is a quad core with 4GB RAM and a RAID10. Still not fast enough for Vista though. :(