I concur on the headaches from Steam. It seems that, using Steam, it takes for-fucking-ever to start to play a game (5 minutes is not atypical) and my system runs the games themselves just fine (HL2 and CS:S). Not only that, but the forced patch cycle has made it impossible for me to play on occasion (THANKS!) and has caused me grief with my favorite servers in CS:S. Ever since they force-patched my game a year or so ago, my favorites (which used to be fine) now don't show up without me refreshing, and managing the favorite list seems to be impossible, as I cannot delete some entries out.
Don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've never had this issue and I've been running Linux systems of various flavors (RH v5.0+, Fedora Core 4+ primarily) for years now. I have not had these 'scheduled reboots' at 49.7 days on any of these systems, and up until the latest ones, these have been shitty systems or substandard by most comparisons, especially for the duty of a file server and windows domain controller. The only reason my system comes down is for power outages, and that's only because I cannot afford a UPS.
How convenient. A dual meaning message. It could be copy protection, it could be a dual layer disk to throw you off. It's like Russian Roulette with CD Specs!
I second this inquiry wholeheartedly. The new layout deviates from standard Windows UI design (menu bar at top, always) and doesn't even allow you to resort to your own needs. This has made me, in the 3 days I've had IE7 on my machine, contemplate removal of the app and a return to IE6 despite it's outdated features.
While I realize that there is and can be valid medical conditions that influence personality and social interaction, this whole "social interaction" disorder doesn't sit very well with me. It seems like having this huge range of possibilities for why someone doesn't want to interact with society is a slipery slope. Find that most people around you are idiots and you don't feel compelled to interact with them? Perhaps that's Aspergers, or perhaps it's just the circumstances you're living with. Get into a habit and live that habit even if there is nothing medically wrong with you.
This 'social' disorder just seems to promote an idea of the 'Ideal Person.' This Ideal Person does things this way at 9am, at noon, 3pm, and so on. The only problem with this is, is there an ideal person? I bet you could go out and pick any random person and find some sort of deviation from an 'Ideal Person', but does this make it necessary to label them with a disorder to validate or justify their perceived problem?
Again, I understand valid, justifiable disorders that are medically induced, causing problems with social interactions. However, I would hope "normal" would include a range of acceptable development paths instead of just one. Just a gut feeling I have that there's this push to categorize everything as some kind of disorder, even things that, under other circumstances, result in quite capable and functional adults.
I disagree that they're essentially creating real world inflation. I base that belief on the fact that, no matter how much virtual assets exist in the world, one can effectively consider the real world currency ammount to remain the same during a small period of time. If 500 billion gil/plat/etc were injected into a VR economy, the change to the RL economy is nil. HOWEVER, the exchange rate from VR currency to RL currency is devalued (more VR currency per RL currency unit) because it is exceptionally easier to get ahold of VR currency.
Don't be mistaken. VR inflation does not cause RL inflation unless RL merchants honor VR currency as valid in a fixed 1:1 ratio.
Are we really at war? Keep in mind that the President can engage the country in a police action for a set period of time (what, 90 days?) and after that time, he has to seek the approval of Congress before he can continue. The Iraq war was very speedy, really only a 'police action' in name, ended very quickly with Bush's speech upon the carriers ("End of Hostilities") in order to refrain from needing Congress' approval for his act.
Technically, I don't think we were ever officially "At War" with either Afghanistan or Iraq. It just sounds like the Pres wants to have his cake (invade other countries unilaterally) and eat it too (use of wartime articles to justify acts carried out outside of 'war')
"Seperate Network" for VoIP packets? That sounds kinda stupid. Try QoS metering. After all, from your local segment, VoIP and other traffic has to bottleneck through your own line first before fanning out onto an ISP's larger network.
But it hasn't made irrelivent the brick-and-mortar stores. At those stores, I can rent more than 3 movies at a time and I'm only charged for movies I actually have in my posession at a given time. If I went with netflix (or even Blockbuster's online service), I'd be getting a steady monthly charge, even if they didn't have any movies that I wanted to watch right now. It's wasted money if you're an 'occasional' renter. That, compounded with the whole "Unlimited, but not really unlimited" hype that Netflix puts on their service makes such an online service a real turnoff.
I think you fail to understand the possibilities of having multiple avenues for the body to prevent unchecked cellular reproduction. Built into each cell should be the codings to tell it how and how often to divide, and at what stages of life. When those checks fail due to any number of circumstances (mutations due to environment or flawed genes), a secondary check, the immune system, responds to a threat of unchecked cellular reproduction by destroying it if possible.
Think of it like social behavior. Ideally, all pro-social behavior is internalized and you operate within the guidelines of the law. However, when you fail to (speeding, for instance), law enforcement is there to step you back into the proper action.
What is the difference between 'Marriage' and 'Civil Union'? If the granted rights by the state are the same, then why make a distinction between them?
Who pays for infrastructure improvements? We do, dummy. In fact, we even paid for the original infrastructure to be constructed, through government grants. You don't seriously believe that the telco's actually created their own networks on their own dimes, do you?
It seems really sad that there's any validity to this method of restriction. To me, it's like selling a book to you and saying, "Since I'm selling it to you at $1, you can only read it in your bathroom. If you want to read it anywhere, that'll be $6.99"
As the grandparent posted, it's the legal rights as defined by the state that is "what the government has got to do with marriage". Nominally, only direct family may have any rights to do the things as listed previously, such as visit you in the hospital outside normal hours or whatever. With marriage, they become direct family, and gain those legal rights.
When the government decided to extend rights over another to those within a marriage, the government became involved. It is now their pandering that tries to control it further, pushing their own agenda (on whatever false pretenses it might have).
The issue arises when, interestingly enough, WGA declares that a legitimate and wholly legally used copy of Windows is not legitimate. In a case where this happens, and there are times and pleanty of reported cases where it happens, there is significant harm to the user who bought and paid for a program and expects it to continue to work. Just because a computer (which is an inherantly stupid entity) decides that your copy is not legit is not sufficient justification for removing access to properly licensed copy of Windows.
Some companies will require direct deposit. One such as the one I work for does. Oh, they CAN cut a check, and do so before the system gets set up for direct deposit, but I imagine unless you have a very good reason for not being able to get direct deposit, they will be asking for your bank information.
Even if you work for a company that can't do direct deposit, they will sometimes mail your paycheck to you at your home. Lacking a home (and cutting the bank out of the loop), where do they send your paycheck?
All that said, there are places you can go in and work and they will give you a paycheck there at the place of employment. I imagine those are the kinds of places that one would want to seek out if lacking a home.
This kind of 'allergies are inherited. Specific allergies are not' lends credibility to the idea that an allergic reaction is actually a reaction to things like parasites and worms that would seek to make a home within a human host. Missing these parasites, as we generally are in modern environments, the immune system (retaining the programming to maintain a strong defense against foreign invaders) will attack anything that remotely resembles a parasite. For someone, it sees dust first. For someone else, it's chlorine bleach. Or cat dander, etc.
No, it's not always lazyness that prompts the 'turn all things off' mentality. I found a nice little article that describes some cases in which even FCC certified equipment raidiates more RF than it should, and why it is bad. Maybe it'll help.
The problem is that they won't be 'giving the money back to you'. The Telcos will be collecting your fee from you, and collecting the fee from the content provider, in one of those double jam-it-up-the-ass maneuvers. It is absolutely not like providing a 800 number, because you get charged, and the content provider pays many times (once for their line, once for EACH the high speed line through a telco/isp to their customer)
This applies to latex allergies as well. Some hospital employees will become allergic to latex while being exposed to it repeatedly in a sterile environment.
It's just funny. The GPP indicates that a family that works on the farm does not get allergies to many things like dust and pollen, but discounts the idea that genetics influences allergies in the least. IE, if the parents are not allergic to dust and take up a life of farming, then their children are not likely to exhibit such ailments as well.
AFAIK, iTunes doesn't give you your music back if you buy the songs and lose the original copy.
You are incorrect in this. I have a coworker that wound up having his hard drive go belly-up and trashed his collection of music. After getting that recovered and fixed, he went back to iTunes and (through some process that wasn't explained) managed to regain copies of his music.
I wish you had read the entire reply before responding. Yes, the phrase I highlighted might have swayed people away from the original point, but further in, I state that while it MAY be acceptable fair use, it has not been tested and has no specific legal precident to justify doing it.
I did not say that innocent children being murdered or abused or abducted or anything else was acceptable. I did not even imply that the world was perfect, that there was no middle ground, that there was innocence left in the world. However, my take on things is that, when the children get old enough to roam away from home (go to friends, go party, etc), a trust between you and child needs to start developing. You need to teach them the things that will help keep them safe on their own, the tools they need to ascertain whether or not a stranger is safe or dangerous, the responsibility to check in every so often and BE HONEST with what they're doing.
While my childhood was not perfect, something that I settled on after growing up was 'checking in' during travel. I'm an adult, I am capable of traveling several hundred (or thousand) miles on my own without incident. However, simply as precaution, I contact someone (usually my parents) to announce that I have arrived at my destination safely. Why? Because it's best if someone outside yourself is aware when you're traveling and (lacking that announcement) can alert the authorities should something go wrong (accident, etc) enroute. Someone is watching me when I travel, but it is a trusted relationship, it is not a GPS Transponder.
It's a stupid phrase, but in this case it is apt. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. You are preparing your children for life. You're better off to give them the tools to do it themselves than to try to do it for them.
Ironically, that would seem to mean that if, say, Microsoft had not bundled IE with Windows (a commercial product) and had instead left it free to distribute then not even IE would have been affected by the lawsuit. Frankly, though, the nature of the patent and the one-sidedness of how they intend to pursue it bother me. How is 'automatic startup of a plugin/control (or whatever the patent relates to)' a novel concept?
How is the Cellular Phone company liable for any abductions that occur while the child is taking an active role in defeating tracking. Where, as well, do you think it will say in the service agreement that Verizon/etc will be in any way responsible for the activities conducted by the tracked children? I can tell you how it will read. Something like:
"We (Verizon Wireless) will not be held accountable for any actions, discrepancies, or service failures while watching a tracked phone. This service is an INFORMATIONAL service and cannot prevent acts outside of parental or legal boundries."
Oops. Guess the laywers are going to beat you to the punch, huh?
Cellular telephone service is a 'best effort' service anyways, not guaronteed service by any stretch of the imagination.
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I concur on the headaches from Steam. It seems that, using Steam, it takes for-fucking-ever to start to play a game (5 minutes is not atypical) and my system runs the games themselves just fine (HL2 and CS:S). Not only that, but the forced patch cycle has made it impossible for me to play on occasion (THANKS!) and has caused me grief with my favorite servers in CS:S. Ever since they force-patched my game a year or so ago, my favorites (which used to be fine) now don't show up without me refreshing, and managing the favorite list seems to be impossible, as I cannot delete some entries out.
Stupid system.
Don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've never had this issue and I've been running Linux systems of various flavors (RH v5.0+, Fedora Core 4+ primarily) for years now. I have not had these 'scheduled reboots' at 49.7 days on any of these systems, and up until the latest ones, these have been shitty systems or substandard by most comparisons, especially for the duty of a file server and windows domain controller. The only reason my system comes down is for power outages, and that's only because I cannot afford a UPS.
How convenient. A dual meaning message. It could be copy protection, it could be a dual layer disk to throw you off. It's like Russian Roulette with CD Specs!
I second this inquiry wholeheartedly. The new layout deviates from standard Windows UI design (menu bar at top, always) and doesn't even allow you to resort to your own needs. This has made me, in the 3 days I've had IE7 on my machine, contemplate removal of the app and a return to IE6 despite it's outdated features.
While I realize that there is and can be valid medical conditions that influence personality and social interaction, this whole "social interaction" disorder doesn't sit very well with me. It seems like having this huge range of possibilities for why someone doesn't want to interact with society is a slipery slope. Find that most people around you are idiots and you don't feel compelled to interact with them? Perhaps that's Aspergers, or perhaps it's just the circumstances you're living with. Get into a habit and live that habit even if there is nothing medically wrong with you.
This 'social' disorder just seems to promote an idea of the 'Ideal Person.' This Ideal Person does things this way at 9am, at noon, 3pm, and so on. The only problem with this is, is there an ideal person? I bet you could go out and pick any random person and find some sort of deviation from an 'Ideal Person', but does this make it necessary to label them with a disorder to validate or justify their perceived problem?
Again, I understand valid, justifiable disorders that are medically induced, causing problems with social interactions. However, I would hope "normal" would include a range of acceptable development paths instead of just one. Just a gut feeling I have that there's this push to categorize everything as some kind of disorder, even things that, under other circumstances, result in quite capable and functional adults.
I disagree that they're essentially creating real world inflation. I base that belief on the fact that, no matter how much virtual assets exist in the world, one can effectively consider the real world currency ammount to remain the same during a small period of time. If 500 billion gil/plat/etc were injected into a VR economy, the change to the RL economy is nil. HOWEVER, the exchange rate from VR currency to RL currency is devalued (more VR currency per RL currency unit) because it is exceptionally easier to get ahold of VR currency.
Don't be mistaken. VR inflation does not cause RL inflation unless RL merchants honor VR currency as valid in a fixed 1:1 ratio.
Are we really at war? Keep in mind that the President can engage the country in a police action for a set period of time (what, 90 days?) and after that time, he has to seek the approval of Congress before he can continue. The Iraq war was very speedy, really only a 'police action' in name, ended very quickly with Bush's speech upon the carriers ("End of Hostilities") in order to refrain from needing Congress' approval for his act.
Technically, I don't think we were ever officially "At War" with either Afghanistan or Iraq. It just sounds like the Pres wants to have his cake (invade other countries unilaterally) and eat it too (use of wartime articles to justify acts carried out outside of 'war')
"Seperate Network" for VoIP packets? That sounds kinda stupid. Try QoS metering. After all, from your local segment, VoIP and other traffic has to bottleneck through your own line first before fanning out onto an ISP's larger network.
But it hasn't made irrelivent the brick-and-mortar stores. At those stores, I can rent more than 3 movies at a time and I'm only charged for movies I actually have in my posession at a given time. If I went with netflix (or even Blockbuster's online service), I'd be getting a steady monthly charge, even if they didn't have any movies that I wanted to watch right now. It's wasted money if you're an 'occasional' renter. That, compounded with the whole "Unlimited, but not really unlimited" hype that Netflix puts on their service makes such an online service a real turnoff.
I think you fail to understand the possibilities of having multiple avenues for the body to prevent unchecked cellular reproduction. Built into each cell should be the codings to tell it how and how often to divide, and at what stages of life. When those checks fail due to any number of circumstances (mutations due to environment or flawed genes), a secondary check, the immune system, responds to a threat of unchecked cellular reproduction by destroying it if possible.
Think of it like social behavior. Ideally, all pro-social behavior is internalized and you operate within the guidelines of the law. However, when you fail to (speeding, for instance), law enforcement is there to step you back into the proper action.
What is the difference between 'Marriage' and 'Civil Union'? If the granted rights by the state are the same, then why make a distinction between them?
Who pays for infrastructure improvements? We do, dummy. In fact, we even paid for the original infrastructure to be constructed, through government grants. You don't seriously believe that the telco's actually created their own networks on their own dimes, do you?
It seems really sad that there's any validity to this method of restriction. To me, it's like selling a book to you and saying, "Since I'm selling it to you at $1, you can only read it in your bathroom. If you want to read it anywhere, that'll be $6.99"
As the grandparent posted, it's the legal rights as defined by the state that is "what the government has got to do with marriage". Nominally, only direct family may have any rights to do the things as listed previously, such as visit you in the hospital outside normal hours or whatever. With marriage, they become direct family, and gain those legal rights.
When the government decided to extend rights over another to those within a marriage, the government became involved. It is now their pandering that tries to control it further, pushing their own agenda (on whatever false pretenses it might have).
The issue arises when, interestingly enough, WGA declares that a legitimate and wholly legally used copy of Windows is not legitimate. In a case where this happens, and there are times and pleanty of reported cases where it happens, there is significant harm to the user who bought and paid for a program and expects it to continue to work. Just because a computer (which is an inherantly stupid entity) decides that your copy is not legit is not sufficient justification for removing access to properly licensed copy of Windows.
Some companies will require direct deposit. One such as the one I work for does. Oh, they CAN cut a check, and do so before the system gets set up for direct deposit, but I imagine unless you have a very good reason for not being able to get direct deposit, they will be asking for your bank information.
Even if you work for a company that can't do direct deposit, they will sometimes mail your paycheck to you at your home. Lacking a home (and cutting the bank out of the loop), where do they send your paycheck?
All that said, there are places you can go in and work and they will give you a paycheck there at the place of employment. I imagine those are the kinds of places that one would want to seek out if lacking a home.
This kind of 'allergies are inherited. Specific allergies are not' lends credibility to the idea that an allergic reaction is actually a reaction to things like parasites and worms that would seek to make a home within a human host. Missing these parasites, as we generally are in modern environments, the immune system (retaining the programming to maintain a strong defense against foreign invaders) will attack anything that remotely resembles a parasite. For someone, it sees dust first. For someone else, it's chlorine bleach. Or cat dander, etc.
No, it's not always lazyness that prompts the 'turn all things off' mentality. I found a nice little article that describes some cases in which even FCC certified equipment raidiates more RF than it should, and why it is bad. Maybe it'll help.
http://www.issues.org/19.2/strauss.htm
The problem is that they won't be 'giving the money back to you'. The Telcos will be collecting your fee from you, and collecting the fee from the content provider, in one of those double jam-it-up-the-ass maneuvers. It is absolutely not like providing a 800 number, because you get charged, and the content provider pays many times (once for their line, once for EACH the high speed line through a telco/isp to their customer)
This applies to latex allergies as well. Some hospital employees will become allergic to latex while being exposed to it repeatedly in a sterile environment.
It's just funny. The GPP indicates that a family that works on the farm does not get allergies to many things like dust and pollen, but discounts the idea that genetics influences allergies in the least. IE, if the parents are not allergic to dust and take up a life of farming, then their children are not likely to exhibit such ailments as well.
You are incorrect in this. I have a coworker that wound up having his hard drive go belly-up and trashed his collection of music. After getting that recovered and fixed, he went back to iTunes and (through some process that wasn't explained) managed to regain copies of his music.
I wish you had read the entire reply before responding. Yes, the phrase I highlighted might have swayed people away from the original point, but further in, I state that while it MAY be acceptable fair use, it has not been tested and has no specific legal precident to justify doing it.
I did not say that innocent children being murdered or abused or abducted or anything else was acceptable. I did not even imply that the world was perfect, that there was no middle ground, that there was innocence left in the world. However, my take on things is that, when the children get old enough to roam away from home (go to friends, go party, etc), a trust between you and child needs to start developing. You need to teach them the things that will help keep them safe on their own, the tools they need to ascertain whether or not a stranger is safe or dangerous, the responsibility to check in every so often and BE HONEST with what they're doing.
While my childhood was not perfect, something that I settled on after growing up was 'checking in' during travel. I'm an adult, I am capable of traveling several hundred (or thousand) miles on my own without incident. However, simply as precaution, I contact someone (usually my parents) to announce that I have arrived at my destination safely. Why? Because it's best if someone outside yourself is aware when you're traveling and (lacking that announcement) can alert the authorities should something go wrong (accident, etc) enroute. Someone is watching me when I travel, but it is a trusted relationship, it is not a GPS Transponder.
It's a stupid phrase, but in this case it is apt. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. You are preparing your children for life. You're better off to give them the tools to do it themselves than to try to do it for them.
Ironically, that would seem to mean that if, say, Microsoft had not bundled IE with Windows (a commercial product) and had instead left it free to distribute then not even IE would have been affected by the lawsuit. Frankly, though, the nature of the patent and the one-sidedness of how they intend to pursue it bother me. How is 'automatic startup of a plugin/control (or whatever the patent relates to)' a novel concept?
How is the Cellular Phone company liable for any abductions that occur while the child is taking an active role in defeating tracking. Where, as well, do you think it will say in the service agreement that Verizon/etc will be in any way responsible for the activities conducted by the tracked children? I can tell you how it will read. Something like:
"We (Verizon Wireless) will not be held accountable for any actions, discrepancies, or service failures while watching a tracked phone. This service is an INFORMATIONAL service and cannot prevent acts outside of parental or legal boundries."
Oops. Guess the laywers are going to beat you to the punch, huh?
Cellular telephone service is a 'best effort' service anyways, not guaronteed service by any stretch of the imagination.