Problem is that the site's on someone's dynamic connection, and it was submitted by the person whose site it is. Obviously this person was unaware of what a slashdotting does to a workstation.
There's been other versions of Linux for Windows, including one that simply ran as a binary for its entire virtual partition system (increased its size for more files it placed in its virtual system, etc.)
It's not the fandom that votes for Hugos and nominates them early. It's members of the WorldCons. Anyone who attended last year's or has a membership for this year may nominate. This means that there could have been enough people who think this book deserved it (or pressure from the Co$) to put it on the ballot.
However, only members of this year's WorldCon can vote for the final winners. Better make people aware that they should vote No Winner in this category, rather than leaving it blank, to avoid a win (ballots lacking a vote in a category don't count toward the final award, but a no-vote is considered an actual vote, with no winner for that ballot).
Even with credit card purchsaes, there's no way to tell WHAT you purchased. What if it's food? Not always taxable. What if it's for a service that was already taxed?
Use tax has no way to be monitored, and there's no way for them to compel the receipts for the purchases. After all, the tax men are asking you to pay for extra taxes, not you asking to get deductions from them.
Most people in this country do NOT have broadband. It could also be that they don't want to spend a couple hours downloading a large file, then have to burn it.
Not only this, but the vending machine offers a way to browse many different companies' titles in one kiosk. You can search for an age-specific software title (as the article illustrates) or get the newest patches with the software all in one.
This isn't aimed at people like you who download and burn with the greatest of ease. It's made for the people who normally go into a CompUSA to buy sotware, as a way to clear up some shelf space for the lesser titles that hardly get any room, among the bigger titles that clog the shelves. It's a way to search without having to see whether a title's hidden behind another, etc. It's also a way to keep these products in stock, which saves money for the store.
I lived in an area where First Energy controlled the power. The substation feeding us was so dreadfully bad, that any time we had a severe thunderstorm, we'd just get the candles out. More than four out of five times, something would hit the station and blow it out, and it would be hours before First Energy would get the power back up. Clockwork.
I've since moved from Akron to one of its city suburbs, who generates its own power from the nearby waterfalls. During the blackout, all of Akron was out (controlled by First Energy), yet I never noticed until I saw it on the news. My city, which was on its own grid and had its own power, was running fine.
The local authorities told everyone to stay at home because people would be arrested going into areas of Akron during the blackout. Yet people were driving into my city, in order to eat at a restaurant, go to a bar, go shopping, etc.
It was pretty hilarious in hindsight, that First Energy was inept in my neighborhood, and I moved away a few months before the big one hit. I'll never again think city-generated power is less stable than a big corporation's massive grid.
Development costs and research eat up too much money, plus the fact that robots at this point have mostly an industrial market, rather than a consumer market.
Japanese firms have constantly pushed money into development of technology that is a loss-maker early on, until its adaption is widespread and cost-effective. The US companies have stockholders to appease, and long-term profits are hardly ever in their best interests.
On the plus side, after the robotics are easier to make and have far-reaching capabilities, American companies will license or purchase them from the Japanese companies and we'll still have them.
In the State of Ohio, an employer is *REQUIRED* to pay overtime to any non-salaried employee who works any time over forty hours per week. This is not an average of forty hours per week for the course of two weeks, but between the first day of a pay week and the last day, forty hours is the max before overtime is required. The fines are heavy for each *incident* where overtime is negated.
I worked for an independent franchise chain of the Marco's Pizza restaurant a number of years ago as a delivery driver. The people who ran the local district were complete asses, and did anything they could to milk the employees of more money.
Besides charging the employees for their uniforms, and then demanding them back at the end of their employment or they'd withhold the last paycheck (and no, you got no refund), they'd shave hours flagrantly.
With me, since I often worked long shifts, sometimes open to close, they'd clock me out for breaks on my timecard whether or not I took any. I even went back and changed my timecard after the management did, and they'd just change it back. Some weeks, they'd even track it back more to make sure I never went into overtime.
I got tired of this, so I waited until a friend who was training to be a manager was on duty late at night. I took my timecard with me on a delivery route to copy it before the end of the pay period, when they'd change it. My paycheck, of course, reflected a lower amount of hours, but I had proof now that they had cheated me.
I sent the proof to my state employment board and filled out a complaint form. I had left the company before any investigation happened, but about a year after I filed, the main corporation bought out the franchise and fired nearly everyone in the management fields.
I feel great knowing they can't cheat anyone else. I'm upset that I lost perhaps $500 in the few months I worked there. But you *can* sue, and possibly win, to get those hours back, with interest, and your state will probably investigate and fine the company higher amounts than they saved, only if you take the initiative.
IANAD (I am not a Democrat), but really, what was the purpose of asking Clinton under oath about a sexual relationship? Especially since the leaders of the Republican party who pushed for his impeachment later were found to have had extramarital affairs anyways?
It was the only thing they could do to target Clinton and try to win in 1998/2000. It worked in the end because of Gore's reluctance to have Clinton campaign for him, and for Gore's inability to really decide issues in the early running.
The point is, yeah, Clinton lied under oath. But what the hell was the point of putting him under oath in the first place? Republicans were hypocritical, as were most of the people in DC asking for his head.
hate to tell you, but fillibusters happen through any political party. Republicans and Democrats have had them, for much the same reasons. Politics, next to religions, hurt the people the most when they're forced upon them.
I'm sorry, but I must step in and say you are a moron.
I know name-calling's low, but your argument is based solely on a weird, and almost completely US-centric, view of what's obscene.
You can see men's breasts without a problem. Even fat, saggy male breasts. But if it comes from a woman, it's obscene. Okay, whatever, nice biased view there.
But here's the bigger part of your argument that makes you sound like a moron. The kid watches the Super Bowl that should be family-friendly, and a boob is the problem that was shown for barely a second, if that.
But you seem to have no problems with the beer commercials, the erectile dysfunction ads, the advertisements for television series rated for adults, movies that are rated R...
If a breast is really that offensive to the six year old and these aren't, then really, the parents are breeding the worst kind of obscenity in the kid, and he'll grow up thinking erections are fine if you take pills, but not if you look at a curvy thing on a female.
I don't know, people will argue that id Software and Epic have made three great games in a row at least (and people still play Doom II online, though not in great enough numbers that anyone would care). But there still are QuakeWorld servers running around, and that game was released in 96, if memory serves me, and not only can you still get the demo CD or buy the game for $10 at most any store, it's now open source (the engine, not the graphics and sounds).
So, I'd say that at least in this instance, id has done way more for its players than Blizzard. And the most popular game in terms of sales is still The Sims, which will have a sequel this year.
bnetd wasn't the real reason Blizzard objected to it. bnetd existed for a long time before Blizzard blew the whistle. It was a forked project which released a version that would play the WarCraft III beta, that stirred the trouble. bnetd was included just because now it's a bother that it never checks for CD-Key verification, even though the project has asked, and got rebuked, to include such checks against the main server.
In this instance, Blizzard is in the wrong. They have *no* guarantee of income after the purchase of a CD. The bnetd server was reverse engineered based on catching the necessary protocol through incoming/outgoing packets. Many people cannot stand the PKers or idiots on Battle.net, and want their own private instances of the gaming service to avoid these. Blizzard won't provide it, so they made their own. Not only this, but the connection IPs are in the registry, NOT in any binary. No modification of the game is necessary.
Anyways, WoW will cost money. Up front and monthly. No single player. If someone were to figure out how to reverse engineer the server code and create a way for people to have alternate worlds, I'd be willing to sink money into WoW. But I'm not paying a monthly fee to play a game I already bought just because the main company doesn't want me to play anywhere else, even with a local group of friends.
I don't think it's the R&D that's being forgotten, rather it's the ads on television, during the Super Bowl and World Series, even before movies nowadays, the constant barrage of branded items such as pens, pads of paper, clocks, deskpads, etc., and of course, giving away many free samples.
Imagine how much cheaper drugs would be if they'd just cut back on some of the most aggressive advertising today?
Because Viacom was pushing that DishNetworks would have to purchase all the bundle, not just a channel or two. Even if you want BET and MTV alone, you'd still get like eighteen thousand Nickelodeon channels.
Or the Hugo Award Winning Hominids, in which an alternate earth of Neanderthals all have "companions", which are monitoring devices implanted in the arms, among which record everything immediately around the person to save to a master server station in a highly secured area.
As a published author, I can say that OpenOffice.org is *not* equally as good. The formatting still is far behind, proper layouts, typesetting is still years behind and the editing features are almost nil.
WordPerfect is still the best for working with writing documents. Until OpenOffice.org starts asking the main users of WP why they stick with it (you know, the legal and writing professionals), it won't even come close to beating WP.
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Problem is that the site's on someone's dynamic connection, and it was submitted by the person whose site it is. Obviously this person was unaware of what a slashdotting does to a workstation.
There's been other versions of Linux for Windows, including one that simply ran as a binary for its entire virtual partition system (increased its size for more files it placed in its virtual system, etc.)
It's not the fandom that votes for Hugos and nominates them early. It's members of the WorldCons. Anyone who attended last year's or has a membership for this year may nominate. This means that there could have been enough people who think this book deserved it (or pressure from the Co$) to put it on the ballot.
However, only members of this year's WorldCon can vote for the final winners. Better make people aware that they should vote No Winner in this category, rather than leaving it blank, to avoid a win (ballots lacking a vote in a category don't count toward the final award, but a no-vote is considered an actual vote, with no winner for that ballot).
Problems...
Even with credit card purchsaes, there's no way to tell WHAT you purchased. What if it's food? Not always taxable. What if it's for a service that was already taxed?
Use tax has no way to be monitored, and there's no way for them to compel the receipts for the purchases. After all, the tax men are asking you to pay for extra taxes, not you asking to get deductions from them.
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Halloween 3, The Howling 3, Police Academy 3, The Skulls 3...
Typical /. elitism.
Most people in this country do NOT have broadband. It could also be that they don't want to spend a couple hours downloading a large file, then have to burn it.
Not only this, but the vending machine offers a way to browse many different companies' titles in one kiosk. You can search for an age-specific software title (as the article illustrates) or get the newest patches with the software all in one.
This isn't aimed at people like you who download and burn with the greatest of ease. It's made for the people who normally go into a CompUSA to buy sotware, as a way to clear up some shelf space for the lesser titles that hardly get any room, among the bigger titles that clog the shelves. It's a way to search without having to see whether a title's hidden behind another, etc. It's also a way to keep these products in stock, which saves money for the store.
It's somehow better in many, many ways.
I lived in an area where First Energy controlled the power. The substation feeding us was so dreadfully bad, that any time we had a severe thunderstorm, we'd just get the candles out. More than four out of five times, something would hit the station and blow it out, and it would be hours before First Energy would get the power back up. Clockwork.
I've since moved from Akron to one of its city suburbs, who generates its own power from the nearby waterfalls. During the blackout, all of Akron was out (controlled by First Energy), yet I never noticed until I saw it on the news. My city, which was on its own grid and had its own power, was running fine.
The local authorities told everyone to stay at home because people would be arrested going into areas of Akron during the blackout. Yet people were driving into my city, in order to eat at a restaurant, go to a bar, go shopping, etc.
It was pretty hilarious in hindsight, that First Energy was inept in my neighborhood, and I moved away a few months before the big one hit. I'll never again think city-generated power is less stable than a big corporation's massive grid.
Development costs and research eat up too much money, plus the fact that robots at this point have mostly an industrial market, rather than a consumer market.
Japanese firms have constantly pushed money into development of technology that is a loss-maker early on, until its adaption is widespread and cost-effective. The US companies have stockholders to appease, and long-term profits are hardly ever in their best interests.
On the plus side, after the robotics are easier to make and have far-reaching capabilities, American companies will license or purchase them from the Japanese companies and we'll still have them.
In the State of Ohio, an employer is *REQUIRED* to pay overtime to any non-salaried employee who works any time over forty hours per week. This is not an average of forty hours per week for the course of two weeks, but between the first day of a pay week and the last day, forty hours is the max before overtime is required. The fines are heavy for each *incident* where overtime is negated.
I worked for an independent franchise chain of the Marco's Pizza restaurant a number of years ago as a delivery driver. The people who ran the local district were complete asses, and did anything they could to milk the employees of more money.
Besides charging the employees for their uniforms, and then demanding them back at the end of their employment or they'd withhold the last paycheck (and no, you got no refund), they'd shave hours flagrantly.
With me, since I often worked long shifts, sometimes open to close, they'd clock me out for breaks on my timecard whether or not I took any. I even went back and changed my timecard after the management did, and they'd just change it back. Some weeks, they'd even track it back more to make sure I never went into overtime.
I got tired of this, so I waited until a friend who was training to be a manager was on duty late at night. I took my timecard with me on a delivery route to copy it before the end of the pay period, when they'd change it. My paycheck, of course, reflected a lower amount of hours, but I had proof now that they had cheated me.
I sent the proof to my state employment board and filled out a complaint form. I had left the company before any investigation happened, but about a year after I filed, the main corporation bought out the franchise and fired nearly everyone in the management fields.
I feel great knowing they can't cheat anyone else. I'm upset that I lost perhaps $500 in the few months I worked there. But you *can* sue, and possibly win, to get those hours back, with interest, and your state will probably investigate and fine the company higher amounts than they saved, only if you take the initiative.
Apache doesn't adhere to the GPL. Apache's released under the Apache Software License, available at http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt
You mean that Toho Studios claims Star Wars is a "nonliteral implementation" of The Hidden Fortress.
Don't forget that smoking is against the law to advertise, but you can have it in television shows and in movies without changing the ratings for now.
Yeah, that's something to let kids see. But a boob or the f-word, that's something that will tarnish them for life.
Shit, your radio came without tuning or power knobs or buttons, too?
In the end, it was about sex.
IANAD (I am not a Democrat), but really, what was the purpose of asking Clinton under oath about a sexual relationship? Especially since the leaders of the Republican party who pushed for his impeachment later were found to have had extramarital affairs anyways?
It was the only thing they could do to target Clinton and try to win in 1998/2000. It worked in the end because of Gore's reluctance to have Clinton campaign for him, and for Gore's inability to really decide issues in the early running.
The point is, yeah, Clinton lied under oath. But what the hell was the point of putting him under oath in the first place? Republicans were hypocritical, as were most of the people in DC asking for his head.
hate to tell you, but fillibusters happen through any political party. Republicans and Democrats have had them, for much the same reasons. Politics, next to religions, hurt the people the most when they're forced upon them.
I'm sorry, but I must step in and say you are a moron.
I know name-calling's low, but your argument is based solely on a weird, and almost completely US-centric, view of what's obscene.
You can see men's breasts without a problem. Even fat, saggy male breasts. But if it comes from a woman, it's obscene. Okay, whatever, nice biased view there.
But here's the bigger part of your argument that makes you sound like a moron. The kid watches the Super Bowl that should be family-friendly, and a boob is the problem that was shown for barely a second, if that.
But you seem to have no problems with the beer commercials, the erectile dysfunction ads, the advertisements for television series rated for adults, movies that are rated R...
If a breast is really that offensive to the six year old and these aren't, then really, the parents are breeding the worst kind of obscenity in the kid, and he'll grow up thinking erections are fine if you take pills, but not if you look at a curvy thing on a female.
Congrats.
I don't know, people will argue that id Software and Epic have made three great games in a row at least (and people still play Doom II online, though not in great enough numbers that anyone would care). But there still are QuakeWorld servers running around, and that game was released in 96, if memory serves me, and not only can you still get the demo CD or buy the game for $10 at most any store, it's now open source (the engine, not the graphics and sounds).
So, I'd say that at least in this instance, id has done way more for its players than Blizzard. And the most popular game in terms of sales is still The Sims, which will have a sequel this year.
bnetd wasn't the real reason Blizzard objected to it. bnetd existed for a long time before Blizzard blew the whistle. It was a forked project which released a version that would play the WarCraft III beta, that stirred the trouble. bnetd was included just because now it's a bother that it never checks for CD-Key verification, even though the project has asked, and got rebuked, to include such checks against the main server.
In this instance, Blizzard is in the wrong. They have *no* guarantee of income after the purchase of a CD. The bnetd server was reverse engineered based on catching the necessary protocol through incoming/outgoing packets. Many people cannot stand the PKers or idiots on Battle.net, and want their own private instances of the gaming service to avoid these. Blizzard won't provide it, so they made their own. Not only this, but the connection IPs are in the registry, NOT in any binary. No modification of the game is necessary.
Anyways, WoW will cost money. Up front and monthly. No single player. If someone were to figure out how to reverse engineer the server code and create a way for people to have alternate worlds, I'd be willing to sink money into WoW. But I'm not paying a monthly fee to play a game I already bought just because the main company doesn't want me to play anywhere else, even with a local group of friends.
I don't think it's the R&D that's being forgotten, rather it's the ads on television, during the Super Bowl and World Series, even before movies nowadays, the constant barrage of branded items such as pens, pads of paper, clocks, deskpads, etc., and of course, giving away many free samples.
Imagine how much cheaper drugs would be if they'd just cut back on some of the most aggressive advertising today?
Especially since mobile is six letters long, you'd be misspelling every one!
Because Viacom was pushing that DishNetworks would have to purchase all the bundle, not just a channel or two. Even if you want BET and MTV alone, you'd still get like eighteen thousand Nickelodeon channels.
So SCO is trying to steal Linux, and /. is up in arms.
But advocate stealing any other OS, like Windows, and it's Informative?
Or the Hugo Award Winning Hominids , in which an alternate earth of Neanderthals all have "companions", which are monitoring devices implanted in the arms, among which record everything immediately around the person to save to a master server station in a highly secured area.
As a published author, I can say that OpenOffice.org is *not* equally as good. The formatting still is far behind, proper layouts, typesetting is still years behind and the editing features are almost nil.
WordPerfect is still the best for working with writing documents. Until OpenOffice.org starts asking the main users of WP why they stick with it (you know, the legal and writing professionals), it won't even come close to beating WP.