and the shuttle is? The west is little better than the east, e.g. UK is getting more right wing by the day, we even banned imagine by John Lennon during the Falklands war because it was too peacefull.
There's one way to help fix things, limit the number of election terms an elected official can stay in office for. That way you get new blood and people can actually vote for who they want not just a party. Proportional represention also helps, even if the Nazi party get one seat that way because the lefties and the greens get seats too and it all balences out, just with a bit more variety then a two party system.
Copyright on recordings in the UK is 50 years, that makes early Elvis recordings out of copyright. n.b. 50 years if only for the actual original recordings or coppies of, not the sheet music or anything else
under the current system when something falls out of copyright (yes it happens every day, even to Elvis!) it enters the public domain and if free for all. Because DRM systems are attempting to be 'impossible' to crack there's a good change that when DRMed music falls out of copyright it will not enter the public domain. So using DRM is basically like saying bye bye to existing copyright laws.
I do something similar, my local games shop take 'trade in' games and then sell them for a fraction of the retail price, e.g. Hidden and dangerous cost me 50p less than $1, my girlfriend works for a sister company so I get a 30% discount on that. Battlefield 2 ended up costing £12.
The question remains what is a phobia and why would you want to cure it. From casual observation it would appear that most phobias (spiders, open spaces, closed spaces, heights) and associated conditions such as vertigo are left behind evolutionary traits.
We don't live in holes because people are claustrophobic, we don't fall off cliffs because people get vertigo, we don't wonder off into the desert because of agoraphobia etc....
Anyhow, except in extram cases (where oversion therapy already works) why would you want to cure a phobia?
You have to remember, Microsoft's customers use Windows, and it's a hell of a learning curve to go from a Windows GUI admin to a Linux one. I'm not surprised there 'hitting a brick wall' because there already standing at it's foot gazing to the stars.
I tried out Lindows the other day (just for fun) and it didn't setup dhcp on my wireless card, absolutely everything else worked perfectly! To a GUI Microsoft admin this would be like a brick wall, the GUI tool provided by Lindows did't let you setup dhcp from the boot cd, for a linux guy it's just a dhcpdc wlan0 away.
What do you think happens to them when you put them in landfill? don't they biodegrade releasing CO2 and, 8 times worse, methane. Burning will produce less methane, so it's generally better.
Processing the wood into Tar (for roads) and charcoal for burying may be a better way of storing biomass.
I said hardwoods because it's an easy target and didn't require going way off topic and including all the possible ways that you can prevent 'more' trees from being taken from non-renewable resources. I suppose I failed to mention that in a few thousand years time the rain forrest may grow back and we may have another couple of gallons of oil too.
If you want my opinion on paper then don't buy acidic wood pulp paper, it has a lifetime of between 20 and 70 years, traditional cotton (cloth) and hemp fiber papers have lifetimes of several hundred years just make sure that deforestation isn't happening to grow more hemp or cotton.
What's interesting is that some people who survived the Black Death became ill first and got better, it's been hypothesized that they only had one copy of the mutant gene. It may be possible that something similar has happened here and the reason it hasn't been picked up on before is because people with one copy of the gene may not get ill enough to bother getting tested for HIV. On the other hand the Black death gene has been known to prevent HIV for a good few years from research into gay men who had lots of HIV+ partners but never caught HIV themselfs, and the way that the gene works is by preventing HIV from entering white blood cells at an early stage of infection.
opps the 6.14 kernel has some paramiters defined that are also defined in ndiswrapper, looks like I'll have to prefix the ones in ndiswrapper with win_ or wait for gentoo to update it's packages.
The ATI drivers also seem to use a lot of deprecated memory management calls that need fixing for every release.
I personally don't mind having to fix the drivers (I wouldn't be running a new kernel otherwise), but I shouldn't really have to, a stable driver development API &co. would make it a lot easier for companies to release drivers and not have to worry about them breaking every kernel release. (even if they were stupid enough to use deprecated functions)
The reason they are pushing is so that they don't have to keep updating the driver every other week to take account of the latest changed in the kernel. I really don't think this will affect stability, 3rd party drivers may be just as buggy with or without a driver API, but I expect not having to hit a moving target will help make them less buggy. Apart from they every time I've updated my kernel either ndiswrapper or the ati-driver has some kind of incompatibility the I have to go searching for on the internet to hand patch the drivers, not exactly the worlds most usable system.
What's your favorate game? Have you tried to get it working under Wine?
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The fixes are usually generic unless the fix is to work around a bug in the game, e.g. Warhammer 40k doesn't load textures properly so there's a specific fix to get nonpower2 textures working with that game.
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That's not quite true, vertex buffer object and other performance patches aren't in wine cvs yet, I'm finishing off stabilizing Directx (including allowing DirectX 8 to use the improvements) over the next month or so, including Pixel Shaders 1.4.
After that I'm going to commit the performance patches that should bring wine to a comparable level to Cedega (some of the patches give a huge performance increase over Cedega).
There are still a lot of no DirectX related issues that need fixing in Wine so that games are playable.
IMO. Cedega aren't putting much effort into DirectX in Cedega, my patch from 2005-06-13 has many of the features Cedega are touting as new in their 5.0 release.
Maybe they were selling drugs, is Coke a Cola registered Coke as a trademark in 1941, but they defiantly haven't been defending it. Ask most people for Coke and they'll probably expect your asking for drugs.
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Have you actually tried that stuff?
When I tried!! to give up last year I went through the whole range of substitutes and all I can say is you may as well dry some grass cuttings (Garden variety) leaves off of a tree. The all taste like you sucking on a bonfire.
The best things I found were plastic filters and nico-block. (I started off by reducing my smoking by one cigarette every few days until I was down to about three first)
Anyhow, if you smoking weed the best thing to do is use a vaporizer, it heats up the weed until THC turns to vapor and because it doesn't burn anything you don't get high levels of tar and many other carcinogens that are produced by burning. (You can also make oil and chase it)
I was just pointing out that putting your fingers in your ears and sayling lar,lar,lar I can't hear you isn't the correct way to deal with terrorists or Microsoft or anyone else for that matter.
If they really want Microsoft then they need to negotiate, if they think Microsoft is too big for it's boots then the Government have the option of forcing Microsoft to comply. That's government for you, they do what they want, and if they can't then they change the law to fit.
In this case Microsoft isn't acting like a terrorist, well unless you mean those terrorists who threaten to run away.
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and the shuttle is? The west is little better than the east, e.g. UK is getting more right wing by the day, we even banned imagine by John Lennon during the Falklands war because it was too peacefull.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
There's one way to help fix things, limit the number of election terms an elected official can stay in office for. That way you get new blood and people can actually vote for who they want not just a party.
Proportional represention also helps, even if the Nazi party get one seat that way because the lefties and the greens get seats too and it all balences out, just with a bit more variety then a two party system.
Copyright on recordings in the UK is 50 years, that makes early Elvis recordings out of copyright.
n.b. 50 years if only for the actual original recordings or coppies of, not the sheet music or anything else
under the current system when something falls out of copyright (yes it happens every day, even to Elvis!) it enters the public domain and if free for all. Because DRM systems are attempting to be 'impossible' to crack there's a good change that when DRMed music falls out of copyright it will not enter the public domain. So using DRM is basically like saying bye bye to existing copyright laws.
I do something similar, my local games shop take 'trade in' games and then sell them for a fraction of the retail price, e.g. Hidden and dangerous cost me 50p less than $1, my girlfriend works for a sister company so I get a 30% discount on that. Battlefield 2 ended up costing £12.
The question remains what is a phobia and why would you want to cure it. From casual observation it would appear that most phobias (spiders, open spaces, closed spaces, heights) and associated conditions such as vertigo are left behind evolutionary traits.
We don't live in holes because people are claustrophobic, we don't fall off cliffs because people get vertigo, we don't wonder off into the desert because of agoraphobia etc....
Anyhow, except in extram cases (where oversion therapy already works) why would you want to cure a phobia?
Well, it just goes to show we don't need many if any new laws with the word computer in them.
You have to remember, Microsoft's customers use Windows, and it's a hell of a learning curve to go from a Windows GUI admin to a Linux one. I'm not surprised there 'hitting a brick wall' because there already standing at it's foot gazing to the stars.
I tried out Lindows the other day (just for fun) and it didn't setup dhcp on my wireless card, absolutely everything else worked perfectly! To a GUI Microsoft admin this would be like a brick wall, the GUI tool provided by Lindows did't let you setup dhcp from the boot cd, for a linux guy it's just a dhcpdc wlan0 away.
Anyone who would choose WinCe over an operating system deserves neither.
What do you think happens to them when you put them in landfill? don't they biodegrade releasing CO2 and, 8 times worse, methane. Burning will produce less methane, so it's generally better.
Processing the wood into Tar (for roads) and charcoal for burying may be a better way of storing biomass.
I said hardwoods because it's an easy target and didn't require going way off topic and including all the possible ways that you can prevent 'more' trees from being taken from non-renewable resources. I suppose I failed to mention that in a few thousand years time the rain forrest may grow back and we may have another couple of gallons of oil too.
If you want my opinion on paper then don't buy acidic wood pulp paper, it has a lifetime of between 20 and 70 years, traditional cotton (cloth) and hemp fiber papers have lifetimes of several hundred years just make sure that deforestation isn't happening to grow more hemp or cotton.
Stop buying wood products that don't come from renewable sources, that's basically all hard woods.
What's interesting is that some people who survived the Black Death became ill first and got better, it's been hypothesized that they only had one copy of the mutant gene. It may be possible that something similar has happened here and the reason it hasn't been picked up on before is because people with one copy of the gene may not get ill enough to bother getting tested for HIV. On the other hand the Black death gene has been known to prevent HIV for a good few years from research into gay men who had lots of HIV+ partners but never caught HIV themselfs, and the way that the gene works is by preventing HIV from entering white blood cells at an early stage of infection.
It's more or less like that in the UK to, ask for coke and you either get something white and flaky or brown and fizzy. You may get speed or pepsi.
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opps the 6.14 kernel has some paramiters defined that are also defined in ndiswrapper, looks like I'll have to prefix the ones in ndiswrapper with win_ or wait for gentoo to update it's packages.
The ATI drivers also seem to use a lot of deprecated memory management calls that need fixing for every release.
I personally don't mind having to fix the drivers (I wouldn't be running a new kernel otherwise), but I shouldn't really have to, a stable driver development API &co. would make it a lot easier for companies to release drivers and not have to worry about them breaking every kernel release. (even if they were stupid enough to use deprecated functions)
The reason they are pushing is so that they don't have to keep updating the driver every other week to take account of the latest changed in the kernel. I really don't think this will affect stability, 3rd party drivers may be just as buggy with or without a driver API, but I expect not having to hit a moving target will help make them less buggy. Apart from they every time I've updated my kernel either ndiswrapper or the ati-driver has some kind of incompatibility the I have to go searching for on the internet to hand patch the drivers, not exactly the worlds most usable system.
either today or in the future ..... or when the copyright expires and it's supposed to be in the public domain but still remains crippled by DRM.
What's your favorate game? Have you tried to get it working under Wine?
The fixes are usually generic unless the fix is to work around a bug in the game, e.g. Warhammer 40k doesn't load textures properly so there's a specific fix to get nonpower2 textures working with that game.
That's not quite true, vertex buffer object and other performance patches aren't in wine cvs yet, I'm finishing off stabilizing Directx (including allowing DirectX 8 to use the improvements) over the next month or so, including Pixel Shaders 1.4.
After that I'm going to commit the performance patches that should bring wine to a comparable level to Cedega (some of the patches give a huge performance increase over Cedega).
There are still a lot of no DirectX related issues that need fixing in Wine so that games are playable.
IMO. Cedega aren't putting much effort into DirectX in Cedega, my patch from 2005-06-13 has many of the features Cedega are touting as new in their 5.0 release.
Maybe they were selling drugs, is Coke a Cola registered Coke as a trademark in 1941, but they defiantly haven't been defending it. Ask most people for Coke and they'll probably expect your asking for drugs.
Have you actually tried that stuff?
When I tried!! to give up last year I went through the whole range of substitutes and all I can say is you may as well dry some grass cuttings (Garden variety) leaves off of a tree. The all taste like you sucking on a bonfire.
The best things I found were plastic filters and nico-block. (I started off by reducing my smoking by one cigarette every few days until I was down to about three first)
Anyhow, if you smoking weed the best thing to do is use a vaporizer, it heats up the weed until THC turns to vapor and because it doesn't burn anything you don't get high levels of tar and many other carcinogens that are produced by burning. (You can also make oil and chase it)
I was just pointing out that putting your fingers in your ears and sayling lar,lar,lar I can't hear you isn't the correct way to deal with terrorists or Microsoft or anyone else for that matter.
If they really want Microsoft then they need to negotiate, if they think Microsoft is too big for it's boots then the Government have the option of forcing Microsoft to comply. That's government for you, they do what they want, and if they can't then they change the law to fit.
In this case Microsoft isn't acting like a terrorist, well unless you mean those terrorists who threaten to run away.
Well, when the UK started bothering to deal with the IRA terrorists look what happened.
Your just spouting political nonsence, to deal with terrorists you need to setup negotiations and cave in to some of their demands.
Prior to the UK dealing with the IRA there was a complete ban on broadcasting the words of Sinn Fein leaders and the terrorsts kept on bombing.