Compare that to Aion where you PAY $50 for the retail game, then PAY $15 a month just to SEE IF YOU'LL LIKE IT. That, my friend, IS a rip-off.
You know, I just started playing Aion, and I have to correct this.
If you cancel before your free month is up, your CC is not charged. Of course, if you use game cards, then yes, it's $75 to start.
You can ask a friend to send you an invite. You get a code that's good for 5 hours of play, 3 days, or level 7, whichever comes first. Yeah, it's kind of a lame trial, but it was enough to get me hooked. 5 hours should be sufficient time to get to level 7, if you have any mmo experience.
Most people don't need anything better than Home Premium. Look at the product matrix. All Ultimate gets you is XP Mode (which only works on VT-enabled processors), Domain Join (which home users don't need), Network Backup (people actually use Microsoft Backup?), Bitlocker (use TrueCrypt) and MUI (Do you really need to switch the Windows UI between 35 languages?). Professional gets you everything but the last two. If you really, truly need Professional or Ultimate, just click Anytime Upgrade and put in your credit card number.
Newegg lists 15 netbooks with Home Premium. If you choose one with the right processor (e.g. SU2300), you can even upgrade to Professional or Ultimate and use XP Mode. These things rival full-size laptops in power, and all you lose is the internal optical drive. If I hadn't just bought the Acer with the Atom Z520 (which supports the VT extensions with the latest BIOS) 4 months ago and put Win 7 Pro on it, I'd get the new SU2300 model.
Printed on the disc label is "This disk and its contents may be copied and shared but NOT sold"
Multiple, DRM free formats (currently Ebookwise/Rocket, Mobi/Palm/Kindle, EPUB/Stanza, Microsoft, Sony, RTF, HTML) with online HTML and "email to Kindle"
When they add a new format, you can re-download your books in the new format
If you buy the e-book version, you can download an.iso of the accompanying CD
It's a matter of scale. The ones they make now would be that $1000 dream scope if they sold 10 million units a year, but they don't. There isn't a big enough market for that, and they last forever. At work, we have 3 tek scopes in just the engineering dept. The portable one has been around the world multiple times and just needs a new battery every 10 years and its yearly calibration, and the big old 2 channel crt digital and 4 channel LCD one just get their yearly calibration, and just work. The 2-chan one has a dead floppy drive, but I wrote software so you can just hang an iPAQ off the serial port and capture as many screens as you want.
#9 was great, I was sorry when they went bust like most of the others. I had a #9 in my old Dell, and was having some problem with either Windows or some game. #9 support told me it was a BIOS problem, and sent me a new BIOS for the video card. No, they didn't email me a flash update (I can't remember if I even had email yet at the time), they mailed me a big fat EPROM stuck in a piece of carbon anti-static foam inside a padded envelope at no charge. That's customer service.
The stuff we used in the chem lab in college was 190 and 200 proof USP grade ethanol. It was tightly controlled and not worth going through the trouble of sneaking out of the lab to drink. If you really wanted Everclear, you could drive an hour South and pick some up in Pennsylvania.
People dump booze into everything else; you really think that he was the first person to ever mix coffee and alcohol? He was just the first person to formally give it a name and sell it.
I have been using this for a while. I have not tested it on Win7 yet, but I would expect it to work, as long as you don't install under "C:\Program Files".
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And no one will remember why it's called a "disk" drive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch#History
Pinch described in a paper in 1991.
I'm not sure what dancing has to do with scratching DVDs....
Handbrake only does (well, did, as I think it was removed recently) DVD decryption on Mac.
On Windows, use DVDFab in free mode to decrypt the DVD, then encode with Handbrake.
You know, I just started playing Aion, and I have to correct this.
If you cancel before your free month is up, your CC is not charged. Of course, if you use game cards, then yes, it's $75 to start.
You can ask a friend to send you an invite. You get a code that's good for 5 hours of play, 3 days, or level 7, whichever comes first. Yeah, it's kind of a lame trial, but it was enough to get me hooked. 5 hours should be sufficient time to get to level 7, if you have any mmo experience.
Sorry to nit pick, but the A4 is an SOC (System-On-Chip) with an ARM core. You do know that ARM is a licensed architecture, right?
Most people don't need anything better than Home Premium. Look at the product matrix. All Ultimate gets you is XP Mode (which only works on VT-enabled processors), Domain Join (which home users don't need), Network Backup (people actually use Microsoft Backup?), Bitlocker (use TrueCrypt) and MUI (Do you really need to switch the Windows UI between 35 languages?). Professional gets you everything but the last two. If you really, truly need Professional or Ultimate, just click Anytime Upgrade and put in your credit card number.
Newegg lists 15 netbooks with Home Premium. If you choose one with the right processor (e.g. SU2300), you can even upgrade to Professional or Ultimate and use XP Mode. These things rival full-size laptops in power, and all you lose is the internal optical drive. If I hadn't just bought the Acer with the Atom Z520 (which supports the VT extensions with the latest BIOS) 4 months ago and put Win 7 Pro on it, I'd get the new SU2300 model.
You mean like this? Started by Baen, now also has books from
what you failed to note:
I just got the Baen newsletter, and they have all 7 of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser on sale for $35.
Actually, I can't. Due to fear of the Aporkalypse, they removed all the magazines and kid's toys from the office.
It's a matter of scale. The ones they make now would be that $1000 dream scope if they sold 10 million units a year, but they don't. There isn't a big enough market for that, and they last forever. At work, we have 3 tek scopes in just the engineering dept. The portable one has been around the world multiple times and just needs a new battery every 10 years and its yearly calibration, and the big old 2 channel crt digital and 4 channel LCD one just get their yearly calibration, and just work. The 2-chan one has a dead floppy drive, but I wrote software so you can just hang an iPAQ off the serial port and capture as many screens as you want.
#9 was great, I was sorry when they went bust like most of the others. I had a #9 in my old Dell, and was having some problem with either Windows or some game. #9 support told me it was a BIOS problem, and sent me a new BIOS for the video card. No, they didn't email me a flash update (I can't remember if I even had email yet at the time), they mailed me a big fat EPROM stuck in a piece of carbon anti-static foam inside a padded envelope at no charge. That's customer service.
The stuff we used in the chem lab in college was 190 and 200 proof USP grade ethanol. It was tightly controlled and not worth going through the trouble of sneaking out of the lab to drink. If you really wanted Everclear, you could drive an hour South and pick some up in Pennsylvania.
Make mine Gunpowder Green, please.
Also, astrophysicists tend to describe anything heavier than Hydrogen (IIRC) as "metal."
Visual Studio isn't "major commercially-available software?" Process Explorer is telling me that "devenv.exe" is a a .NET process.
Especially since the cotton gin has nothing to do with picking the cotton. It's used for separating the fibers from the seeds.
Yes. Become an accountant instead.
Reading in the tub is the killer app for e-books.
Just put your nook or kindle or sony or whatever in a zip-lock bag, and you don't have to worry about it getting wet.
Not forbidden by law, forbidden by their contract with Levi.
Um, what about this? Or would you say that cygwin counts as "unix?"
People dump booze into everything else; you really think that he was the first person to ever mix coffee and alcohol? He was just the first person to formally give it a name and sell it.
Next up: Ford suing Mustang owners who get speeding tickets, for "ruining the brand image."
Yesdelimitersarestupid theromanshaditrightwho thefuckneedspunctuation orspacesanywaythisismuch easiertoread
No, it was explained. It's more like a combination (as in lock) rather than an address.
I have been using this for a while. I have not tested it on Win7 yet, but I would expect it to work, as long as you don't install under "C:\Program Files".