I'm sure there's a temp agency in your area, why not call them up and see what they've got? That way you can have somebody come in and work on your equipment, etc, and maintain the control you seem so concerned about.
I'm sure plenty of people will be offended by this, but I don't like the Mac UI. I never have liked it, and yes I've used it enough to be sure that it's not just because I'm "more used to Windows." I simply find it backwards and stupid for the way I like to use a computer.
Anyway, I had been considering buying one and slapping Linux on it because I'm interested in the PPC architecture. If they're ditching PPC, I have no reason to buy one.
Well, not from them anyway. I guess I could still pick up a cheap old one on ebay or something, but what's the point, really?
One has to wonder how much of the inefficiencies in current ethanol production are a result of it largely being fossil fuel based, which puts it in the hole to begin with.
I have to agree. I wasn't planning on buying any of the new stuff anyway, but now I have an additional reason. The last thing I want to do at this point is put any more money in the pockets of a gaming company that would even consider that they actually have the right to try and enforce such a license.
It's a shame, I like their old games. Too bad they apparantly don't want me as a customer anymore.
Actually, merely stretching or exercising your arms and wrists for a few minutes works just fine.
The best thing I've found is a pair of padded practice nunchuks. A few minutes of basic spin-and-catch exercises on each hand and everything feels good as new. I use the chain ones because they're a little heavier than the string ones, and I feel that works my wrists a little better, but YMMV.
I think they'll have an even harder time making it stick in a non-LARP scenario, but if they want to try, it's their funeral. I mean, look where this kind of behavior got TSR.
You may be buying the book, but you are purchasing the right to possess a copy of the author's work, distributed on paper. the paper itself is yours. the words on the paper are the copyright holders. you've essentially paid for a user license.
IANAL either, but I have actually read USC17, and you couldn't possibly be more wrong.
Copyright law concerns itself with one, and only one, thing: making copies. There is absolutely no such thing in US copyright law as a "user license".
You are correct in that a performance can be considered a copy, and thus requires a license from the copyright holder, but I think WW is going to have a very hard time making that argument against any LARP group that isn't specifically using scripts/modules produced by WW.
I have to agree RE Yast, especially for people coming from Windows.
Everyone I've known that began their Linux experience with SuSE has ended up using Linux primarily or exclusively within 2 years, myself included. I can't say that about any other distro.
IIRC, 10-15 minutes is recommended for lilly-white, northern european types. The darker your skin is, the more time you need in the sun to produce the same amount of D vitamins. I would assume smog/fog would also increase the amount of time needed, and latitude/season is probably a factor as well.
It makes me wonder, what's the SPF of the grime that builds up on the average outdoor human after a few months?
Pretty good, actually, and you'd be suprised how quickly it can build up. I worked in construction when I was younger, mainly digging ditches, and I don't remember ever getting sunburned at work. I took a shower every day, but we always started early, so by the time the sun would have been dangerous to me I already had a fair amount of whatever dust I kicked up stuck to my sweat.
I'd like to know because it doesn't make sense to me that everyone back then would get skin cancer, but everyone obviously spent a lot of time in the sun.
One thing to consider is that skin cancer takes a long time to develop, and a lot of people just didn't live long enough.
Also, are black or dark people also vulnerable to the sun, or is it mostly just white people?
According to the statistics I've seen, it seems like blacks are a lot less vulnerable than whites. However, I have think that any data on such things is going to be skewed by economic circumstances.
That's the part that really chaps my hide. If Apple doesn't provide useful support for their tightly controlled hardware platform, it's "fair enough". But if some little known Linux distro doesn't support their arbitrary hardware automagically, hellfire and damnation must rain down upon the open source community.
That being said, I may be soon using a power washer to dig a trench, or just doing it by hand with a shovel
I'm sure there's somewhere in your area where you can rent a Ditch Witch or something similar. There's a lot to be said for having the right tool for the job.
The difference is that roads are funded through taxes
This isn't necessarily true. Roads are quite often funded and built entirely by private interests.
In a rural area such as where I grew up, the vast majority of the roads were built by landowners. Much of the land was at one time owned by logging companies who, when they were done logging it, subdivided it and sold the parcels to individuals. The logging roads were then improved and extended by the new landowners, many of whom built houses on that land, and naturally wished for more reliable access. Some of those improved roads were later incorporated by the county or a town, who would then maintain them using tax money, but most are still privately owned and maintained.
In more urban and suburban areas developers are almost always required to do infrastructure improvements as part of their developement, and most of that involves creating new, or upgrading existing, roads to handle the traffic their development will create.
Hey, good for you. I'm just shocked at how often people suggest Mac as a way to escape MS lock-in. Perhaps I should have said: there are plenty of reasons to get a Mac, but escaping lock-in isn't one of them.
Sorry, but from where I sit, at least as far as lock-in, Mac is the same, but for hardware too.
That's pretty much how I've voted for years now. However, not all incumbents are corrupt, so I'll at least try to think of something they've done that I've liked first, that isn't totally outweighed by something really bad I can remember them doing.
Of course, I can count on one hand the number that have passed that test.
Since I don't have mod points, I'm echoing the AC's "try SuSE" comment. It's well worth the money. They've been beating MS in the "easy config" department since the SuSE7.x days, and yes that includes all manner of networking and filesharing.
"Card sharp" is a term that origionated in the wild west meaning pretty much the same thing. If there's a difference, I would say that "shark" implies someone who hides their true ability, where "sharp" implies someone who cheats (by switching out cards, bottom dealing, etc). In reality, though, the line between the two is thin and blurred.
Did you miss the part about how he works for a school? He has to get the money before it can be invested, and $100 might be the limit above which he has to get the approval of 3 PHBs and 6 beancounters.
Or maybe you missed the part about how the attacks are coming from other departments, over which he has no authority, and who obviously don't place a high value on security?
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I'm sure there's a temp agency in your area, why not call them up and see what they've got? That way you can have somebody come in and work on your equipment, etc, and maintain the control you seem so concerned about.
I'm sure plenty of people will be offended by this, but I don't like the Mac UI. I never have liked it, and yes I've used it enough to be sure that it's not just because I'm "more used to Windows." I simply find it backwards and stupid for the way I like to use a computer.
Anyway, I had been considering buying one and slapping Linux on it because I'm interested in the PPC architecture. If they're ditching PPC, I have no reason to buy one.
Well, not from them anyway. I guess I could still pick up a cheap old one on ebay or something, but what's the point, really?
One has to wonder how much of the inefficiencies in current ethanol production are a result of it largely being fossil fuel based, which puts it in the hole to begin with.
I have to agree. I wasn't planning on buying any of the new stuff anyway, but now I have an additional reason. The last thing I want to do at this point is put any more money in the pockets of a gaming company that would even consider that they actually have the right to try and enforce such a license.
It's a shame, I like their old games. Too bad they apparantly don't want me as a customer anymore.
Actually, merely stretching or exercising your arms and wrists for a few minutes works just fine.
The best thing I've found is a pair of padded practice nunchuks. A few minutes of basic spin-and-catch exercises on each hand and everything feels good as new. I use the chain ones because they're a little heavier than the string ones, and I feel that works my wrists a little better, but YMMV.
Not the screen; the box.
Although, SuSE does include the BSOD screensaver...
I think they'll have an even harder time making it stick in a non-LARP scenario, but if they want to try, it's their funeral. I mean, look where this kind of behavior got TSR.
It is, though I think a few of the Personal releases might have been blue.
You may be buying the book, but you are purchasing the right to possess a copy of the author's work, distributed on paper. the paper itself is yours. the words on the paper are the copyright holders. you've essentially paid for a user license.
IANAL either, but I have actually read USC17, and you couldn't possibly be more wrong.
Copyright law concerns itself with one, and only one, thing: making copies. There is absolutely no such thing in US copyright law as a "user license".
You are correct in that a performance can be considered a copy, and thus requires a license from the copyright holder, but I think WW is going to have a very hard time making that argument against any LARP group that isn't specifically using scripts/modules produced by WW.
I have to agree RE Yast, especially for people coming from Windows.
Everyone I've known that began their Linux experience with SuSE has ended up using Linux primarily or exclusively within 2 years, myself included. I can't say that about any other distro.
It doesn't strike me as inconsistent that an Apple user wouldn't know a lot about hardware.
IIRC, 10-15 minutes is recommended for lilly-white, northern european types. The darker your skin is, the more time you need in the sun to produce the same amount of D vitamins. I would assume smog/fog would also increase the amount of time needed, and latitude/season is probably a factor as well.
It makes me wonder, what's the SPF of the grime that builds up on the average outdoor human after a few months?
Pretty good, actually, and you'd be suprised how quickly it can build up. I worked in construction when I was younger, mainly digging ditches, and I don't remember ever getting sunburned at work. I took a shower every day, but we always started early, so by the time the sun would have been dangerous to me I already had a fair amount of whatever dust I kicked up stuck to my sweat.
I'd like to know because it doesn't make sense to me that everyone back then would get skin cancer, but everyone obviously spent a lot of time in the sun.
One thing to consider is that skin cancer takes a long time to develop, and a lot of people just didn't live long enough.
Also, are black or dark people also vulnerable to the sun, or is it mostly just white people?
According to the statistics I've seen, it seems like blacks are a lot less vulnerable than whites. However, I have think that any data on such things is going to be skewed by economic circumstances.
- fair enough I guess.
That's the part that really chaps my hide. If Apple doesn't provide useful support for their tightly controlled hardware platform, it's "fair enough". But if some little known Linux distro doesn't support their arbitrary hardware automagically, hellfire and damnation must rain down upon the open source community.
Yes, clearly he meant "capitalism", not "democracy". Many Americans confuse the two.
I blame the Republicans.
That being said, I may be soon using a power washer to dig a trench, or just doing it by hand with a shovel
I'm sure there's somewhere in your area where you can rent a Ditch Witch or something similar. There's a lot to be said for having the right tool for the job.
Parts of Sacramento had it a few years ago, though I don't know if the company that was doing it is still around.
Nice job of completely missing the point.
I'll give you a hint: the point still holds if the two guys are the sole proprietors of their own small businesses.
The difference is that roads are funded through taxes
This isn't necessarily true. Roads are quite often funded and built entirely by private interests.
In a rural area such as where I grew up, the vast majority of the roads were built by landowners. Much of the land was at one time owned by logging companies who, when they were done logging it, subdivided it and sold the parcels to individuals. The logging roads were then improved and extended by the new landowners, many of whom built houses on that land, and naturally wished for more reliable access. Some of those improved roads were later incorporated by the county or a town, who would then maintain them using tax money, but most are still privately owned and maintained.
In more urban and suburban areas developers are almost always required to do infrastructure improvements as part of their developement, and most of that involves creating new, or upgrading existing, roads to handle the traffic their development will create.
Hey, good for you. I'm just shocked at how often people suggest Mac as a way to escape MS lock-in. Perhaps I should have said: there are plenty of reasons to get a Mac, but escaping lock-in isn't one of them.
Sorry, but from where I sit, at least as far as lock-in, Mac is the same, but for hardware too.
That's pretty much how I've voted for years now. However, not all incumbents are corrupt, so I'll at least try to think of something they've done that I've liked first, that isn't totally outweighed by something really bad I can remember them doing.
Of course, I can count on one hand the number that have passed that test.
Since I don't have mod points, I'm echoing the AC's "try SuSE" comment. It's well worth the money. They've been beating MS in the "easy config" department since the SuSE7.x days, and yes that includes all manner of networking and filesharing.
next computer I plan on getting is an Apple Powerbook, as I refuse to get any OS like XP that requires activation.
Hmmm...
I don't like product activation, so I'm going to switch to an OS that only runs on a single manufacturer's hardware.
Of all the reasons there are for buying a Mac, escaping lock-in is the dumbest.
"Card sharp" is a term that origionated in the wild west meaning pretty much the same thing. If there's a difference, I would say that "shark" implies someone who hides their true ability, where "sharp" implies someone who cheats (by switching out cards, bottom dealing, etc). In reality, though, the line between the two is thin and blurred.
Did you miss the part about how he works for a school? He has to get the money before it can be invested, and $100 might be the limit above which he has to get the approval of 3 PHBs and 6 beancounters.
Or maybe you missed the part about how the attacks are coming from other departments, over which he has no authority, and who obviously don't place a high value on security?