I so hope other retailers follow this. I hated all the hoops I had to jump through to get the forms filled out this morning....the extra copies made, the proof of purchase, the envelope, the stamps...
Since I pay most of my bills online, I think I use more stamps for rebates than anything else.
For those of you who don't know, mosquitoes breed in water Your How stuff works link mentions that the Aedes mosquitoes can lay their eggs on dry land too. They are the worst. I live in Houston (ex-swamp) and when we have draughts the Aedes mosquitoes will lay their eggs anywhere...imagine mosquitoes laying eggs over and over that don't hatch because there is no water.........and then the draught ends. We have flooding, the eggs get wet, we get super swarms of blood sucking mosquitoes.
Nobody is moving to Linux because the games aren't there, the thousands of cheesy little Windows applications people love aren't there, it's different (read: scary), and it's a pain in the ass for most joe schmoes to install.
They might move to MACs. I've been doing windows support for decades and in the last several months, I've actually had some users ask about hooking their MACs into our network....I was shocked because these users are not savy with the tech. I would have thought moving to a MAC would be a big deal for them...but it wasn't.
I helpped them and I am hopeful about Apple's new sleek laptops. Doesn't hurt that they have such nice ads for the MACs now....
He was out maneuvered by a Democrat-led Congress that sent a tax bill he had no chance of beating in a veto battle.
what is this 'no chance of beating in a veto battle'....if it isn't something he likes, he can veto it. They can't make changes to the bill after he vetos it if they want to override it....if he meant no new taxes he should have vetoed it...simple.
That is the way it is supposed to work....
How are they going to prove he never bought a latte? Are they going to be able to swear that in the last three months, of all the lattes they sold, not one was bought by him? How do they know his friend didn't buy one and bring it to him in the car?
If it was civil court, he'd have to have a receipt to show that he had bought something there. I was recently talking to a software IP lawyer and he told me a wonderful horror story of having the original cds, license key, the product was registered with software company, but without a receipt he couldn't show that he owned the software.
Technically without a receipt, you don't own anything....or at least one can say, having a receipt ends the discussion about ownership faster.
So does that mean they are going to leave the high end server stuff to the pros?;)
I mean we had an article on slashdot talking about Redhat not being worried (yet) about Mircosoft entering the clustering biz....I guess they had good reason not to worry.
I didn't have a way to prove they were legal at the time at the game table. I didn't have any receipt and they weren't watermarked/drm'ed.
Admittedly the same thing could be said about any book too...without a receipt as far as anyone at a gaming table knew, the book is stolen.
You run into those sort of pricks all the time with online files....it is the same sort of deal as some DJs or music artists not liking anyone that has MP3s...viewing them all as crooks. I'd prefer if I sat down at a convention with a game designer to not have things go south the moment he hears I have my entire gaming collection on my computer. I'd rather him say cool.....
I've had it happen. I sat down at a table and a player didn't want to play with me simply because I was using a laptop with legal pdfs. Gaming is a social activity. It isn't like I just want to listen to some music alone in my room. I am going to want to be able to access the data when I am surround by other people.
(I'm buzzing. I always love it when I submit something that is accepted.)
I recently looked into rolling my own PDF copies of my gaming books. Here is the thread on Enworld.
For those that don't want to click on that link, I basically talked to 3 IP lawyers about how to do it. It all comes down to the receipt. You have to have the receipt to prove purchase. A scanned receipt is fine as long as it shows your name and the product. Basically you are making your own watermarked pdfs. One IP lawyer with 20 years in the software IP field told me a horror story about how you could have the original software CD, license #, have the software registered with the vendor, and you would still need to produce the receipt to prove ownership. Without the receipt it could be stolen.....
Dang that makes me a geek....first thing that popped into my head was Thor chalenged by giants to drain a mug that happened to be linked to the ocean...the Giants were shocked when Thor did lower the mug an inch or so....
disobedience and other forms of direct action are better ways of getting what we want then begging some old ignorant politicians to be nice to us. We should be defying the law and using all means necessary to demonstrate that....cannot be controlled
That has worked so well for drug users. I'm sorry. As long as politicans can get elected for saying X is wrong, they will do it. Doing crime will just put you in the camp that does not matter.
I believe petty crimes are crimes because it weeds out people. It creates a class of people that have few rights because they can not vote, a slave or wage-slave state.
So what is the difference between the local memory 16MB/s and the main memory 25GB/s 'reading'?
I assume the local memory is not going to be used much for 'reading' and only main memory is going to be used.
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I've found that in all of my jobs there are people willing to work and do their job and their are people who will just do what they need to get by.
Interesting. Are you saying people should do more than they should be paid to do? Personally I subscribe to work smarter, not harder. I find that people that are preceived as working hard do well.
My dad was a workaholic. He was a lawyer in the morning, fixed computers in the afternoon and worked on mainframes at NASA during the night. (He believed what the Navy told him...i.e. that he only needed 4 hours of sleep.)
My parents got a divorce after 24 years. 24 years sounds nice except I was 14 and I have to wonder if I and my mother would have had a better relationship with my dad if he had just cut back on the working....been around the house more.
Then there was my father-in-law. He's dead now. He worked multiple jobs too to take care of the family (3 daughters.) He died at 47 from colon cancer. His big plan was to retire and enjoy life.
Personally I'd rather see less GNP and more GNH (Gross National Happiness) Working hard should never be a goal. Working smart and being happy should be.
People who trot out wildly extrapolated results from global warming simulations ("OMG NY will under water by 2100!") sound to me like the same people who predicted city-sized computers back in the 50s because there was no way their simulations could have predicted microelectronics.
Sorry...I'd still rather try something than nothing. I do not like the George Bush and Katrina method to public policy....it is messy and deadly.
No employer is ever going to just take a single hair or a few skin scrapings. They're going to want blood, and more than just a finger prick. If they do that before getting back to you with a decision, they could be screening for, say... PREGNANCY. SSRI's. Who knows what.
Even if the system were perfect it would give employers a blank check to perform unwelcome and illegal tests on job applicants.
Hey, just like in Gattaca it would be illegal for companies to discriminate based on what they found. Even if it isn't illegal...well the same out come from Gattaca would happen.
Kidding aside> One scene in Gattaca runs through my head at stories like these. The head director in the movie makes a statement that the police can check his dna because there isn't a violent strand in it. I always wonder...are they going to restrict the lowly blue-collar worker from having criminal tendencies while allowing the white collar to have them? Corporate criminals make some good money for companies.
and then there is my wonder that if we screen for all these sorts of personality traits, are wiping out what makes us human? Ignoring the sins of our past that helped us to reach this point. I think from an evolutionary point of view we'd be dooming our selves.
To all the people saying, it won't take long for MRSA or other bacteria to get resistance to this, this is a big deal. This drug is not a derivative of earlier antibiotics. We're talking cocktail solutions and grape shot. Bacteria only have so many resources. To build a wall in one place bacteria have to take material away from some where else. Bacteria can not be resistant to everything. This is really good news.
Scientists who would have liked to study the bear are not so lucky.
Maybe the scientists who would have liked to study a grizzly/polar mix should go to a zoo, where they already exist, as mentioned in the article. I think that would be a lot easier.
exactly. I was wondering what its coat was like. Can it dive into freezing waters and be fine? If so, is this a way to preserve some of the genetic makeup of the polar bear? grizzlies can survive in a wider field of environments than polars...there's got to be some +/-s going on and I'd love to know what they were.
I love D&D and have tons of pdfs for 2nd edition AD&D. D&D books fit in both Cold & Cozy for me. They are something I enjoy reading but they are also reference material.
Note that the notions of "cozy books" and "cold books" are relative. A female engineer may consider a book about advanced quantum physics to be a "cozy book" for leisure reading, but a middle-aged housewife may consider a romance novel to be a "cozy book".
I especially like this comment because it gives me hope about ebooks. Some cozy & cold books are never published because the target market is too small. ebooks works perfectly for this market and as an example rpgnow , a site that has tons of ebooks for gamers. It is a perfect example of cold & cozy books that probably wouldn't have gotten published or at least not as much without ebooks.
I've only just gotten the Eberron Campaign setting, from the bargain bin, over 50% off. That is probably pretty telling.
I'm not running or playing an Eberron game at the moment, but the setting is decent. It was created for the player in mind. They had a contest, took submissions for campaign settings, and Eberron is the one that won. There are aspects to the setting that rub me wrong, but I think anyone that has been playing a long time will see stuff they would have done differently. Eberron is perfect for anyone interested in pulp Indiana Jone-ish type adventures with lots of intrige.
I'm not sure which comment you are confused on so....
Per player's handbook 3.5
pg 50 A rogue can sneak attack only living creatures with discernible anatomies--undead, constructs, oozes, plants, and incorporeal creatures lack vital areas to attack. Any creature that is immune to critical hits is not vulnerable to sneak attacks.
pg 50 A rogue cannot sneak attack while striking a creature with concealment (see page 152) or striking the limbs of a creature whose vitals are beyond reach.
so any miss chance will negate a sneak attack...it is the first comment in the thread that makes no sense. a miss chance is a miss chance.
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I so hope other retailers follow this. I hated all the hoops I had to jump through to get the forms filled out this morning....the extra copies made, the proof of purchase, the envelope, the stamps...
Since I pay most of my bills online, I think I use more stamps for rebates than anything else.
For those of you who don't know, mosquitoes breed in water .....and then the draught ends. We have flooding, the eggs get wet, we get super swarms of blood sucking mosquitoes.
Your How stuff works link mentions that the Aedes mosquitoes can lay their eggs on dry land too. They are the worst. I live in Houston (ex-swamp) and when we have draughts the Aedes mosquitoes will lay their eggs anywhere...imagine mosquitoes laying eggs over and over that don't hatch because there is no water....
MAC is not capitalized unless you're talking about http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/MAC.asp
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It's just Mac, same capitalization as Perl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth#Modern_us
Good to know, but since I still get dinged on PC via spell checker, I think it is a character fault in myself to capitalize them.
Nobody is moving to Linux because the games aren't there, the thousands of cheesy little Windows applications people love aren't there, it's different (read: scary), and it's a pain in the ass for most joe schmoes to install.
They might move to MACs. I've been doing windows support for decades and in the last several months, I've actually had some users ask about hooking their MACs into our network....I was shocked because these users are not savy with the tech. I would have thought moving to a MAC would be a big deal for them...but it wasn't.
I helpped them and I am hopeful about Apple's new sleek laptops. Doesn't hurt that they have such nice ads for the MACs now....
He was out maneuvered by a Democrat-led Congress that sent a tax bill he had no chance of beating in a veto battle. what is this 'no chance of beating in a veto battle'....if it isn't something he likes, he can veto it. They can't make changes to the bill after he vetos it if they want to override it....if he meant no new taxes he should have vetoed it...simple. That is the way it is supposed to work....
If it was civil court, he'd have to have a receipt to show that he had bought something there. I was recently talking to a software IP lawyer and he told me a wonderful horror story of having the original cds, license key, the product was registered with software company, but without a receipt he couldn't show that he owned the software. Technically without a receipt, you don't own anything....or at least one can say, having a receipt ends the discussion about ownership faster.
So does that mean they are going to leave the high end server stuff to the pros? ;)
I mean we had an article on slashdot talking about Redhat not being worried (yet) about Mircosoft entering the clustering biz....I guess they had good reason not to worry.
I didn't have a way to prove they were legal at the time at the game table. I didn't have any receipt and they weren't watermarked/drm'ed. Admittedly the same thing could be said about any book too...without a receipt as far as anyone at a gaming table knew, the book is stolen. You run into those sort of pricks all the time with online files....it is the same sort of deal as some DJs or music artists not liking anyone that has MP3s...viewing them all as crooks. I'd prefer if I sat down at a convention with a game designer to not have things go south the moment he hears I have my entire gaming collection on my computer. I'd rather him say cool.....
I guess we know where this is going. I wonder how the new justices are going to vote....
I've had it happen. I sat down at a table and a player didn't want to play with me simply because I was using a laptop with legal pdfs. Gaming is a social activity. It isn't like I just want to listen to some music alone in my room. I am going to want to be able to access the data when I am surround by other people.
(I'm buzzing. I always love it when I submit something that is accepted.)
I recently looked into rolling my own PDF copies of my gaming books. Here is the thread on Enworld.
For those that don't want to click on that link, I basically talked to 3 IP lawyers about how to do it. It all comes down to the receipt. You have to have the receipt to prove purchase. A scanned receipt is fine as long as it shows your name and the product. Basically you are making your own watermarked pdfs. One IP lawyer with 20 years in the software IP field told me a horror story about how you could have the original software CD, license #, have the software registered with the vendor, and you would still need to produce the receipt to prove ownership. Without the receipt it could be stolen.....
...What?... I was THIRSTY, okay?
Dang that makes me a geek....first thing that popped into my head was Thor chalenged by giants to drain a mug that happened to be linked to the ocean...the Giants were shocked when Thor did lower the mug an inch or so....
disobedience and other forms of direct action are better ways of getting what we want then begging some old ignorant politicians to be nice to us. We should be defying the law and using all means necessary to demonstrate that....cannot be controlled
That has worked so well for drug users. I'm sorry. As long as politicans can get elected for saying X is wrong, they will do it. Doing crime will just put you in the camp that does not matter.
I believe petty crimes are crimes because it weeds out people. It creates a class of people that have few rights because they can not vote, a slave or wage-slave state.
So what is the difference between the local memory 16MB/s and the main memory 25GB/s 'reading'?
I assume the local memory is not going to be used much for 'reading' and only main memory is going to be used.
I've found that in all of my jobs there are people willing to work and do their job and their are people who will just do what they need to get by.
Interesting. Are you saying people should do more than they should be paid to do? Personally I subscribe to work smarter, not harder. I find that people that are preceived as working hard do well.
My dad was a workaholic. He was a lawyer in the morning, fixed computers in the afternoon and worked on mainframes at NASA during the night. (He believed what the Navy told him...i.e. that he only needed 4 hours of sleep.)
My parents got a divorce after 24 years. 24 years sounds nice except I was 14 and I have to wonder if I and my mother would have had a better relationship with my dad if he had just cut back on the working....been around the house more.
Then there was my father-in-law. He's dead now. He worked multiple jobs too to take care of the family (3 daughters.) He died at 47 from colon cancer. His big plan was to retire and enjoy life.
Personally I'd rather see less GNP and more GNH (Gross National Happiness) Working hard should never be a goal. Working smart and being happy should be.
People who trot out wildly extrapolated results from global warming simulations ("OMG NY will under water by 2100!") sound to me like the same people who predicted city-sized computers back in the 50s because there was no way their simulations could have predicted microelectronics.
Sorry...I'd still rather try something than nothing. I do not like the George Bush and Katrina method to public policy....it is messy and deadly.
No employer is ever going to just take a single hair or a few skin scrapings. They're going to want blood, and more than just a finger prick. If they do that before getting back to you with a decision, they could be screening for, say... PREGNANCY. SSRI's. Who knows what.
Even if the system were perfect it would give employers a blank check to perform unwelcome and illegal tests on job applicants.
Hey, just like in Gattaca it would be illegal for companies to discriminate based on what they found. Even if it isn't illegal...well the same out come from Gattaca would happen.
Kidding aside> One scene in Gattaca runs through my head at stories like these. The head director in the movie makes a statement that the police can check his dna because there isn't a violent strand in it. I always wonder...are they going to restrict the lowly blue-collar worker from having criminal tendencies while allowing the white collar to have them? Corporate criminals make some good money for companies.
and then there is my wonder that if we screen for all these sorts of personality traits, are wiping out what makes us human? Ignoring the sins of our past that helped us to reach this point. I think from an evolutionary point of view we'd be dooming our selves.
Scanners....I love Star Trek.
passively scanning poison gas at 60 meters and getting it right, that is sci-fi.
To all the people saying, it won't take long for MRSA or other bacteria to get resistance to this, this is a big deal. This drug is not a derivative of earlier antibiotics. We're talking cocktail solutions and grape shot. Bacteria only have so many resources. To build a wall in one place bacteria have to take material away from some where else. Bacteria can not be resistant to everything. This is really good news.
Scientists who would have liked to study the bear are not so lucky.
Maybe the scientists who would have liked to study a grizzly/polar mix should go to a zoo, where they already exist, as mentioned in the article. I think that would be a lot easier.
exactly. I was wondering what its coat was like. Can it dive into freezing waters and be fine? If so, is this a way to preserve some of the genetic makeup of the polar bear? grizzlies can survive in a wider field of environments than polars...there's got to be some +/-s going on and I'd love to know what they were.
I like your description of cold vs cozy.
I love D&D and have tons of pdfs for 2nd edition AD&D. D&D books fit in both Cold & Cozy for me. They are something I enjoy reading but they are also reference material.
Note that the notions of "cozy books" and "cold books" are relative. A female engineer may consider a book about advanced quantum physics to be a "cozy book" for leisure reading, but a middle-aged housewife may consider a romance novel to be a "cozy book".
I especially like this comment because it gives me hope about ebooks. Some cozy & cold books are never published because the target market is too small. ebooks works perfectly for this market and as an example rpgnow , a site that has tons of ebooks for gamers. It is a perfect example of cold & cozy books that probably wouldn't have gotten published or at least not as much without ebooks.
I've only just gotten the Eberron Campaign setting, from the bargain bin, over 50% off. That is probably pretty telling.
I'm not running or playing an Eberron game at the moment, but the setting is decent. It was created for the player in mind. They had a contest, took submissions for campaign settings, and Eberron is the one that won. There are aspects to the setting that rub me wrong, but I think anyone that has been playing a long time will see stuff they would have done differently. Eberron is perfect for anyone interested in pulp Indiana Jone-ish type adventures with lots of intrige.
I'm not sure which comment you are confused on so....
Per player's handbook 3.5
pg 50 A rogue can sneak attack only living creatures with discernible anatomies--undead, constructs, oozes, plants, and incorporeal creatures lack vital areas to attack. Any creature that is immune to critical hits is not vulnerable to sneak attacks.
pg 50 A rogue cannot sneak attack while striking a creature with concealment (see page 152) or striking the limbs of a creature whose vitals are beyond reach.
so any miss chance will negate a sneak attack...it is the first comment in the thread that makes no sense. a miss chance is a miss chance.
yeah that 20% miss chance is awesome...no more sneak attacks from co-workers!
I am surprised any European believes what a Texan claims as evidence.
(sometimes I am ashamed to be a Texan and as a sixth generation Texan, that is saying a lot.)