The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost.
Blockbuster gives two in store coupons every month good for a game or movie rental.
Not much of a deal at their prices. Definitely not a deal for me, since I don't even know where the nearest Blockbuster is located and I haven't been in one in 3+ years.
Now I just borrow what I want from the library system. Reserve online, get it all pulled and sent to a library near where I am during the day. No limit on the number of DVDs I take out.
Unfortunately, my library system has only one building and a small collection. Relying on the library for movies might work in a big city, but not in the rest of the world.
It doesn't let you work on email off-line.
I don't own a computer that ever goes off-line, except when the Internet is entirely down or I'm taking it apart to repair/upgrade it. At work, the computers are online 24/7 also.
Off-line email is a non-issue to most home users and virtually all office workers.
>Alternative medicine is welcome to use the scientific method >to verify their claims. Until that time, it belongs squarely >in the "anti-science" camp.
You're painting with far too wide a brush. Many alternative medicine practitioners and researchers are using the scientific method and expanding our knowledge of medicine. Take a look at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. http://nccam.nih.gov/
Actually, Desire2Learn is really pushing both Blackboard and WebCT, and competition from D2L might have pushed them to merge. I'm at the University of Iowa, which recently adopted D2L (calling it ICON - Iowa Courses Online - http://icon.uiowa.edu/ ) and is dropping both WebCT and Blackboard. Desire2Learn, WebCT and Blackboard were all finalists, and it was pretty clear from the comparison documents published by UI that D2L won primarily because of usability issues.
Anyway, when I try to loan Miyazaki movies to my sister's kids, they never get to watching them-- because they haven't heard of them and "they're different". So a lack of marketing and a lack of a brand really make it suffer.
You need to sit down with your neices and nephews and watch the movies with them.
When picking it up, the computer told the librarian that it could not be lend out, since it was a rare item. The librarian frowned and aussumed it had to be an error. I got the magazine anyway.
It's unlikely that was a librarian. It was probably an underpaid library clerk or student worker. Libraries rarely waste money by putting professionals to work checking out books.
This is like assuming that the person who handed you a toothbrush as you left the dentist's office was a dentist.
Monopoly sucks. Roll the dice, move, roll the dice, move, roll the dice, move...no tactical decisions, no strategic decisions, pure boredom. Monopoly is one of the reasons people in the USA don't play board games - they think they'll all be as boring as Monopoly!
Believe me, lots of people are tired of Setters. It's random and success isn't very well linked to skill. That's part of the reason it's not #1 at BoardGameGeek, despite the thousands of people who love it.
Get your geek on at BoardGameGeek where we have enough games to scratch just about any itch for tabletop games. If you really liked Axis & Allies, you might be interested in moving up to grognard-level wargames.
Being able to program the game is geeky and all, but I buy games primarily for the gameplay, so I hope they intend to improve on the game in more ways than just adding a scripting language.
Yep. Civ III was a complete waste of my money. Who cares if it's got scripting if the game play sucks?
Of course it matters. Outlook is the "approved" mail client at my work and throughout the business and educational world. If this program isn't installed by the Exchange admin or desktop support, it won't be used. Even if I wanted to use it at work, I couldn't.
Unfortunately, Google Preview, like most similar services, depends on Alexa. For most sites, Alexa thumbnails only show you the home page of the site, not a snapshot of the particular page in which you are interested.
The best feature of Google Desktop is that it is integrated into web searches. Whenever I search Google, I get a little section at the top of the results list with destop results.
Also, the article is wrong. Google Desktop is very configurable. You just have to do some digging. Try this for starters: http://users.tns.net/~skingery/firefox/GDS_Tips.ht ml
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JSTOR didn't do it. They asked DoJ to stop.
It's "case in point" and not "case and point."
The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost.
http://www.widernet.org/digitallibrary/
My rt2500 linksys wireless G card worked out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 5.10. A small config file change and WPA works fine out-of-the-box too. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/RalinkRT2500?acti on=show&redirect=Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo
...but the real deal are the coupons.
Blockbuster gives two in store coupons every month good for a game or movie rental.
Not much of a deal at their prices. Definitely not a deal for me, since I don't even know where the nearest Blockbuster is located and I haven't been in one in 3+ years.
Now I just borrow what I want from the library system. Reserve online, get it all pulled and sent to a library near where I am during the day. No limit on the number of DVDs I take out.
Unfortunately, my library system has only one building and a small collection. Relying on the library for movies might work in a big city, but not in the rest of the world.
It doesn't let you work on email off-line. I don't own a computer that ever goes off-line, except when the Internet is entirely down or I'm taking it apart to repair/upgrade it. At work, the computers are online 24/7 also. Off-line email is a non-issue to most home users and virtually all office workers.
>Alternative medicine is welcome to use the scientific method
>to verify their claims. Until that time, it belongs squarely
>in the "anti-science" camp.
You're painting with far too wide a brush. Many alternative medicine practitioners and researchers are using the scientific method and expanding our knowledge of medicine. Take a look at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. http://nccam.nih.gov/
Actually, Desire2Learn is really pushing both Blackboard and WebCT, and competition from D2L might have pushed them to merge. I'm at the University of Iowa, which recently adopted D2L (calling it ICON - Iowa Courses Online - http://icon.uiowa.edu/ ) and is dropping both WebCT and Blackboard. Desire2Learn, WebCT and Blackboard were all finalists, and it was pretty clear from the comparison documents published by UI that D2L won primarily because of usability issues.
Anyway, when I try to loan Miyazaki movies to my sister's kids, they never get to watching them-- because they haven't heard of them and "they're different". So a lack of marketing and a lack of a brand really make it suffer.
You need to sit down with your neices and nephews and watch the movies with them.
Would the term "cerebral implant" make more sense? Datajack is a cyberpunk term.
When picking it up, the computer told the librarian that it could not be lend out, since it was a rare item. The librarian frowned and aussumed it had to be an error. I got the magazine anyway.
It's unlikely that was a librarian. It was probably an underpaid library clerk or student worker. Libraries rarely waste money by putting professionals to work checking out books. This is like assuming that the person who handed you a toothbrush as you left the dentist's office was a dentist.The bigger the car, the smaller the brain.
Monopoly sucks. Roll the dice, move, roll the dice, move, roll the dice, move...no tactical decisions, no strategic decisions, pure boredom. Monopoly is one of the reasons people in the USA don't play board games - they think they'll all be as boring as Monopoly!
Civ is my favorite game ever, but it takes 8+ hours, 7+ friends, and is out of print (costs $200+ on EBay). Age of Renaissance, History of the World and Struggle of Empires are all more accessible and likely to be played.
Believe me, lots of people are tired of Setters. It's random and success isn't very well linked to skill. That's part of the reason it's not #1 at BoardGameGeek, despite the thousands of people who love it.
http://boardgamegeek.com/top50.htm
Get your geek on at BoardGameGeek where we have enough games to scratch just about any itch for tabletop games. If you really liked Axis & Allies, you might be interested in moving up to grognard-level wargames.
Being able to program the game is geeky and all, but I buy games primarily for the gameplay, so I hope they intend to improve on the game in more ways than just adding a scripting language.
Yep. Civ III was a complete waste of my money. Who cares if it's got scripting if the game play sucks?
Is it just me... or do the old suits look freakin' cool and the new ones look totally gay?
Totally gay is a good thing. Be nicer.
Of course it matters. Outlook is the "approved" mail client at my work and throughout the business and educational world. If this program isn't installed by the Exchange admin or desktop support, it won't be used. Even if I wanted to use it at work, I couldn't.
Unfortunately, Google Preview, like most similar services, depends on Alexa. For most sites, Alexa thumbnails only show you the home page of the site, not a snapshot of the particular page in which you are interested.
DAG and other repositories can also be your friend. Livna doesn't mix well with anything except fedora.us.
The best feature of Google Desktop is that it is integrated into web searches. Whenever I search Google, I get a little section at the top of the results list with destop results.
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Also, the article is wrong. Google Desktop is very configurable. You just have to do some digging. Try this for starters: http://users.tns.net/~skingery/firefox/GDS_Tips.h
Since the 1950s, eminent domain for private benefit has been legal in the USA.
He only implemented the second level on easy difficulty.
It was still a very amusing blast from the past! Thanks for pointing it out.