er... they're pissing off the clients that are abusing their service. These abusers are, on the other hand, pissing off a much MUCH larger group of legitimate, EULA-abiding customers.
I'll toss in another vote for Avast! It's pretty good, and free. and not bloaty and annoying like many of the current commercial AV products seem to be.
Er.. maybe they're using name-based virtual hosts, and putting the IP in your browser doesn't generate the Host: header? Also, I've noticed that their site seems to be down quite often as well... if it's a DNS issue, it's a pretty widespread one I'd think.
I still disagree. I don't have anything against games that require the use of imagination; my dislike of the top-down view stems much more from a game mechanics perspective than an immersiveness/artwork point of view. The top-down perspective simply limits how far forward you can see, which makes driving at high speeds difficult.
Nah, when it came out I thought it was a brilliant game that I really enjoyed playing... but I kept wishing for a better perspective inside the game world that would allow me to see further ahead.
Basically, I'm saying that GTA3 kept everything I loved about the first two, added a whole ton of stuff that made it even better (better story, setting, real voice acting, quality radio in the cars) and addressed the one issue that hampered my enjoyment of the previous titles.
I give full credit to the vision of the developers for the first two games, but I would argue that GTA3 is really the crown of the series; the point where technology had matured sufficiently to fully realize the potential shown by its predecessors.
Ugh, playing GTA 1 & 2 was torture. You could see that there was a great, fun game in there, lots of great mission types, extra stuff to do around town, humor & writing. What really killed the enjoyment for me though was the forced top-down perspective... this really handicapped you when you got up any decent amount of speed, because you're almost guaranteed to wang into another car before you have time to react, even.
Having hardware powerful enough to allow for a good-looking city from a 3rd person chase-cam really opened up the game for me. Additionally, the in-game cinematics and story were alot more coherent and drove the story much better than previous incarnations, while retaining the open-endedness that was available in the previous versions as well.
You can register at 10 locations and vote at all of them... however, until your declared residency in that voting district has been confirmed, your vote is a 'provisional vote'. If you're found to not be a resident in that voting district, your vote from that district is then voided/discarded. Hope this helps...
You're confusing primary elections with general elections. These restrictions just prevent non-party members from choosing who the party is going to put forward as presidential candidate... this *should* be a decision for party members, not outsiders. Or should the Republicans have a share in deciding who the Democrats are going to put forward to challenge Dubya?
Umm... assuming you're talking about pressure inside the helium chamber, pressure inside the blimp would remain constant, provided that the seal is air-tight, and assuming that the covering material doesn't stretch.
No, but even here in the US of A, a vehicle registration contains the color of the car. All the software would have to do is tie the RFID tag to a VIN, pull the registration record for that VIN and presto... all the salient vehicle information at the checker's fingertips.
Because command lines scare newbies, it's as simple as that. You can't have your cake and eat it too, to attract novice users to linux you have to make things as simple as possible, hiding command lines and so forth and so on. If you're experienced enough with UNIX or Linux to require a command line, you should be smart enough to figure out how to get one and make it easily accessible if you need it. Or, failing that, be smart enough to set up a window manager with more command-prompt friendly defaults.
Er... PNG, GIF and JPEG all have published specs... I have yet to see a screen reader that will look at one and say "It's a picture of a bird".:-P
All smartass-ness aside though, this is a big problem with PDF's, is that alot of them don't use text inside, but rather scanned images of text. This makes PDF accessibility a huge issue.
This is a little OT, but I really liked the sneaking system used in the PC version of Splinter Cell (at least, Pandora Tomorrow, I didn't play the original)
You use the scroll wheel to set your movement speed, and then WASD to move around. Worked pretty slick.
Don't be a dumbass. Fans work fine for desktop CPU's working at their normal specified operating speeds. Your complaint is like bitching about your car engine overheating after you've been driving 70mph for half an hour... in first gear.
Likewise, I've voted in every election since I turned 18, and not once has an election worker asked for anything more than my name & address (something I claim I know) -- they never ask for an ID (something I have) or a fingerprint (something I am) etc. With this kind of scrutiny, it wouldn't be very hard for someone to spend all day voting in every precinct around.
Not really. Provisional (or walk-in) votes are specially tagged in our state and election officials ensure that additional votes in other districts from the same registered voter get discarded. HTH, HAND,
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This really deserves an informative mod or three. :-P Thanks!
er... they're pissing off the clients that are abusing their service. These abusers are, on the other hand, pissing off a much MUCH larger group of legitimate, EULA-abiding customers.
It's a pun... inductance (physics) versus inductive reasoning (philosophy) :-)
I'll toss in another vote for Avast! It's pretty good, and free. and not bloaty and annoying like many of the current commercial AV products seem to be.
Probably the same place Illiad hid the humor :-P
Er.. maybe they're using name-based virtual hosts, and putting the IP in your browser doesn't generate the Host: header? Also, I've noticed that their site seems to be down quite often as well... if it's a DNS issue, it's a pretty widespread one I'd think.
There are ways around this with callback services. My dad used to have to dial US 800 numbers all the time from abroad for work purposes.
I still disagree. I don't have anything against games that require the use of imagination; my dislike of the top-down view stems much more from a game mechanics perspective than an immersiveness/artwork point of view. The top-down perspective simply limits how far forward you can see, which makes driving at high speeds difficult.
Nah, when it came out I thought it was a brilliant game that I really enjoyed playing... but I kept wishing for a better perspective inside the game world that would allow me to see further ahead.
Basically, I'm saying that GTA3 kept everything I loved about the first two, added a whole ton of stuff that made it even better (better story, setting, real voice acting, quality radio in the cars) and addressed the one issue that hampered my enjoyment of the previous titles.
I give full credit to the vision of the developers for the first two games, but I would argue that GTA3 is really the crown of the series; the point where technology had matured sufficiently to fully realize the potential shown by its predecessors.
Ugh, playing GTA 1 & 2 was torture. You could see that there was a great, fun game in there, lots of great mission types, extra stuff to do around town, humor & writing. What really killed the enjoyment for me though was the forced top-down perspective... this really handicapped you when you got up any decent amount of speed, because you're almost guaranteed to wang into another car before you have time to react, even.
Having hardware powerful enough to allow for a good-looking city from a 3rd person chase-cam really opened up the game for me. Additionally, the in-game cinematics and story were alot more coherent and drove the story much better than previous incarnations, while retaining the open-endedness that was available in the previous versions as well.
You can register at 10 locations and vote at all of them... however, until your declared residency in that voting district has been confirmed, your vote is a 'provisional vote'. If you're found to not be a resident in that voting district, your vote from that district is then voided/discarded. Hope this helps...
You're confusing primary elections with general elections. These restrictions just prevent non-party members from choosing who the party is going to put forward as presidential candidate... this *should* be a decision for party members, not outsiders. Or should the Republicans have a share in deciding who the Democrats are going to put forward to challenge Dubya?
Heya Tovarax, never thought I'd see a fellow Brell guide here (although I should have expected it... :-)
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Umm... assuming you're talking about pressure inside the helium chamber, pressure inside the blimp would remain constant, provided that the seal is air-tight, and assuming that the covering material doesn't stretch.
No, but even here in the US of A, a vehicle registration contains the color of the car. All the software would have to do is tie the RFID tag to a VIN, pull the registration record for that VIN and presto... all the salient vehicle information at the checker's fingertips.
Because command lines scare newbies, it's as simple as that. You can't have your cake and eat it too, to attract novice users to linux you have to make things as simple as possible, hiding command lines and so forth and so on. If you're experienced enough with UNIX or Linux to require a command line, you should be smart enough to figure out how to get one and make it easily accessible if you need it. Or, failing that, be smart enough to set up a window manager with more command-prompt friendly defaults.
You can just turn off the splash screen, too :-P
All smartass-ness aside though, this is a big problem with PDF's, is that alot of them don't use text inside, but rather scanned images of text. This makes PDF accessibility a huge issue.
Yes yes! who needs these fancy "auto-cars" and "aero-planes" when my horse and carriage and steamship can get me wherever I want?
This is a little OT, but I really liked the sneaking system used in the PC version of Splinter Cell (at least, Pandora Tomorrow, I didn't play the original) You use the scroll wheel to set your movement speed, and then WASD to move around. Worked pretty slick.
Don't be a dumbass. Fans work fine for desktop CPU's working at their normal specified operating speeds. Your complaint is like bitching about your car engine overheating after you've been driving 70mph for half an hour... in first gear.
[Nine Inch Nails] would have released a couple of more albums if it hadn't been for Doom.
:-)
Heh, who would have thought that Doom was the best thing to happen to computers *AND* music.
Not really. Provisional (or walk-in) votes are specially tagged in our state and election officials ensure that additional votes in other districts from the same registered voter get discarded. HTH, HAND,
Hello. The 1990's called, they want their anti-ATI rant back.