I don't really do any sort of creative writing, but I do take most of my notes on my laptop at school.
For that I've found my best bet is Wordpad. It gives me a little bit more flexibility than Notepad, so I can do bold and italics, but I get to save everything in.rtf without the obnoxiousness of Word.
Of course it's ok. This is a group that does business with the public. The number being called was listed as a public contact number. It was made available so people could get in touch with the ATA and register their comments. That's what people were doing.
Nobody gave out the home telephone number of a given telemarketer. Nobody sent mailbombs to the company, or tried to break in and cut their phone lines.
People were just trying to make their opinions known to the company in a legitimate manner. The only thing out of the ordinary here is how many tried at once.
I may be talking out of my ass here, but I think the problem has to do with the DMCA and how it redefined subpoenas for these sorts of things. The subpoenas being issued by the RIAA aren't the same subpoenas that are normally issued. Or something.
There's a very good reason for this: Because far too many selfish fools like you have decided out of paranoia not to donate.
If a large majority of society became donors, then there wouldn't be the sort of shortages we have to deal with today. Doctors would be able to harvest organs from those patients who are most certainly dead and not have to worry about the questionable cases.
I'm no expert on fair use. Heck, I doubt any of us here are, but maybe someone can help clarify something for me.
I burn copies of most of my CDs, and keep the copies in my car. That way I don't have to worry about them being damaged or stolen. As far as I know, that's perfectly legal.
Now, I personally can only listen to either the original or the copy at once. Not both. But, if my brother takes the car for a drive and listens to a CD, I may be listening to the same CD at home. I purchased a single disc, and it's being played in two entirely separate locations at the same time.
Is that still legal? If not, then this whole plan is definitely a piece of crap. If so, then we have to begin considering the difference between personal and corporate use.
The info page at Nintendo about the broadband stuff (http://www.nintendo.com/online/buy_bba.jsp) is where I got my info. I figured it'd probably work with my setup, but wasn't sure. Nintendo probably just wants to be extra cautious and not worry about supporting people with strange home networking setups.
I, like most GC owners, have looked at the broadband adapter with hope, but Nintendo so far hasn't really used it for much. I don't really have the opportunity to set up a LAN with other GCs, so I'd be limited to online.
Nintendo's website explicitly states that it needs to connect directly to a cable or DSL modem. Unfortunately, I've got a USB DSL modem and my provider won't upgrade me without paying more than I want to pay. I've got half a dozen computers sharing through the main PC just fine, though (mostly XP, a couple of 98), so will the broadband adapter work to go online through that despite what Nintendo says?
Well, sometimes I like to be able to close it while my game is paused, so I can drop it in my pocket for a minute or two to do something without having to worry about saving games or anything like that.
It would be nice, though, if the just the screen turned off when it closed to save a bit of power.
The largest scale model I've personally seen was the one on the Mall in Washington, DC. It's pretty piddly compared to this one, but it was still the neatest part of my entire trip there. It's got the advantage of all being within the bounds of a very reasonable walk.
We may not have an actual east or west pole, but we sure do have a certain good benchmark for judging. As long as the rotational speed of the Earth remains constant, and we have accurate timekeeping, and can correct for the various minor cycles and wobbles of everything, we can use the relative angles of the sun and the Earth's surface to keep longitudinal measurements consistent regardless of tectonic movement.
Actually, a disease like that wouldn't be so bad, as nobody would quite survive to spread it.
The worst one is the disease that, after contraction, remains relatively dormant long enough for the carrier to move to a new location before they realize they've contracted it.
Does anybody know if having odd themes still causes trouble with the install? Since around 0.9 or so I'd have all sorts of trouble with my profiles every time I upgraded, and finally discovered (after my last upgrade to 1.2) that it apparently has to do with my running a separate theme (Orbit, specifically).
Is this still a problem? Am I mistaken that it ever was? Should I do anything specific before upgrading?
As I understand it, all or nearly all of the changes have been included in System Reference Document, which you can easily get for free (or maybe a couple bucks if you want to print it all out).
Apart from fancy binding, pretty pictures, and flavor text that you can get from 3E, what are the 3.5E books gonna have that isn't here?
There's a difference between gases in the air and dissolved gases. All the water that you deal with normally has dissolved gases. Dissolved oxygen in both fresh and sewater is how fish and other gilled creatures live. Dissolved nitrogen in our blood is responsible for decompression sickness among divers.
What are you talking about? The Earth has seasons because our axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the ecliptic, and thus at different times of the year different hemispheres get either more or less direct sunlight. The moon has absolutely jack to do with this.
Mars has an inclination of about 25 degrees, just slightly more than us. Mars' seasons are actually more extreme than ours. It has a more eliptical orbit than Earth and makes its closest approach to the sun during Souther Summer, contributing greatly the global dust storms I'm sure you've heard about.
No, the main barrier to terraforming is the fact there's no atmosphere to speak of. In the long run, the low gravity and lack of tectonic activity will also be problems. These are major contributors to its current lifeless state.
I love my GBA, but I still completely fail to understand why Nintendo built this system, launched it with a number of SNES ports, continues to port SNES games to it, and still gave us fewer buttons than the SNES controller.
How hard would it have been to add the X and Y buttons? Front-lit or not, there's no way I'm buying another GBA until it comes with more buttons.
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I picked up a laptop over the summer. Small little Vaio. I don't get wireless access in most of my classrooms, but I do in some and in many places I can go between classes. I use my laptop for all my note-taking in class, even if I don't have internet access at the time.
I believe that if I hadn't had this laptop with me, I wouldn't have gone at all. For three straight semesters I ended up dropping all my classes out of a sort of lethargy and unwillingness to make the commute to school. This gives some added value to being there, and as a consequence I don't mind as much going to class.
One of the main problems is that for artists of all stripes, the *AA is the only reliable way for them (the lucky few of them) to reliably reach an audience and make a living, even if they're being robbed.
There needs to be a genuine, viable alternative. At the least, for ever dollar you spend buying a major label CD or DVD, spend another one on a small-run album from a local band or just drop the cash in the hat of the guy on the streetcorner with the guitar.
What would be ideal is a corporation with the distributing channels and strengths of the *AAs, but with the needs of the artists and consumers coming before those of the executives. Anybody know how we can set that up?
At FIU down here in Miami we've been making progress. We've got access throughout the library, in the student union, and in parts of maybe a third of the buildings on campus. I can get access in some of my classrooms but not others.
One of the features I think is nice is that in the library you can borrow a wireless-enable laptop for a few hours, and the computer lab elsewhere loans out PCMCIA cards.
As for security, you have to register the MAC address of your card (through a nice automated system that lets you get up in under 15 minutes) before being able to connect.
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I don't really do any sort of creative writing, but I do take most of my notes on my laptop at school.
.rtf without the obnoxiousness of Word.
For that I've found my best bet is Wordpad. It gives me a little bit more flexibility than Notepad, so I can do bold and italics, but I get to save everything in
Of course it's ok. This is a group that does business with the public. The number being called was listed as a public contact number. It was made available so people could get in touch with the ATA and register their comments. That's what people were doing.
Nobody gave out the home telephone number of a given telemarketer. Nobody sent mailbombs to the company, or tried to break in and cut their phone lines.
People were just trying to make their opinions known to the company in a legitimate manner. The only thing out of the ordinary here is how many tried at once.
But if you're building it from scratch, can you really call it a "mod?"
A lot of people seem to think that the Hugos are being lessened by being granted to works that aren't strictly sci-fi.
. htm
But these days there's very little sci-fi that's actually science fiction. Most of it is fantasy with computers.
China Mieville (one of the Hugo-nominated authors this year) has an excellent essay on the subject of what he calls "weird fiction" at his website, http://www.panmacmillan.com/features/china/debate
I may be talking out of my ass here, but I think the problem has to do with the DMCA and how it redefined subpoenas for these sorts of things. The subpoenas being issued by the RIAA aren't the same subpoenas that are normally issued. Or something.
None of the X-Prize contestants docked with the ISS just as the priest asked if anyone had any objections. In that sense, it's quite a success.
There's a very good reason for this: Because far too many selfish fools like you have decided out of paranoia not to donate.
If a large majority of society became donors, then there wouldn't be the sort of shortages we have to deal with today. Doctors would be able to harvest organs from those patients who are most certainly dead and not have to worry about the questionable cases.
Bah. Why should I have to see my tax dollars wasted on efforts to save your house once it's on fire?
Artificial extermination of perfectly natural fires is a waste of money with little benefit to society.
I'm no expert on fair use. Heck, I doubt any of us here are, but maybe someone can help clarify something for me.
I burn copies of most of my CDs, and keep the copies in my car. That way I don't have to worry about them being damaged or stolen. As far as I know, that's perfectly legal.
Now, I personally can only listen to either the original or the copy at once. Not both. But, if my brother takes the car for a drive and listens to a CD, I may be listening to the same CD at home. I purchased a single disc, and it's being played in two entirely separate locations at the same time.
Is that still legal? If not, then this whole plan is definitely a piece of crap. If so, then we have to begin considering the difference between personal and corporate use.
The info page at Nintendo about the broadband stuff (http://www.nintendo.com/online/buy_bba.jsp) is where I got my info. I figured it'd probably work with my setup, but wasn't sure. Nintendo probably just wants to be extra cautious and not worry about supporting people with strange home networking setups.
I, like most GC owners, have looked at the broadband adapter with hope, but Nintendo so far hasn't really used it for much. I don't really have the opportunity to set up a LAN with other GCs, so I'd be limited to online.
Nintendo's website explicitly states that it needs to connect directly to a cable or DSL modem. Unfortunately, I've got a USB DSL modem and my provider won't upgrade me without paying more than I want to pay. I've got half a dozen computers sharing through the main PC just fine, though (mostly XP, a couple of 98), so will the broadband adapter work to go online through that despite what Nintendo says?
Well, sometimes I like to be able to close it while my game is paused, so I can drop it in my pocket for a minute or two to do something without having to worry about saving games or anything like that.
It would be nice, though, if the just the screen turned off when it closed to save a bit of power.
The largest scale model I've personally seen was the one on the Mall in Washington, DC. It's pretty piddly compared to this one, but it was still the neatest part of my entire trip there. It's got the advantage of all being within the bounds of a very reasonable walk.
We may not have an actual east or west pole, but we sure do have a certain good benchmark for judging. As long as the rotational speed of the Earth remains constant, and we have accurate timekeeping, and can correct for the various minor cycles and wobbles of everything, we can use the relative angles of the sun and the Earth's surface to keep longitudinal measurements consistent regardless of tectonic movement.
Actually, a disease like that wouldn't be so bad, as nobody would quite survive to spread it.
The worst one is the disease that, after contraction, remains relatively dormant long enough for the carrier to move to a new location before they realize they've contracted it.
Does anybody know if having odd themes still causes trouble with the install? Since around 0.9 or so I'd have all sorts of trouble with my profiles every time I upgraded, and finally discovered (after my last upgrade to 1.2) that it apparently has to do with my running a separate theme (Orbit, specifically).
Is this still a problem? Am I mistaken that it ever was? Should I do anything specific before upgrading?
As I understand it, all or nearly all of the changes have been included in System Reference Document, which you can easily get for free (or maybe a couple bucks if you want to print it all out).
Apart from fancy binding, pretty pictures, and flavor text that you can get from 3E, what are the 3.5E books gonna have that isn't here?
There's a difference between gases in the air and dissolved gases. All the water that you deal with normally has dissolved gases. Dissolved oxygen in both fresh and sewater is how fish and other gilled creatures live. Dissolved nitrogen in our blood is responsible for decompression sickness among divers.
What are you talking about? The Earth has seasons because our axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the ecliptic, and thus at different times of the year different hemispheres get either more or less direct sunlight. The moon has absolutely jack to do with this.
Mars has an inclination of about 25 degrees, just slightly more than us. Mars' seasons are actually more extreme than ours. It has a more eliptical orbit than Earth and makes its closest approach to the sun during Souther Summer, contributing greatly the global dust storms I'm sure you've heard about.
No, the main barrier to terraforming is the fact there's no atmosphere to speak of. In the long run, the low gravity and lack of tectonic activity will also be problems. These are major contributors to its current lifeless state.
Unfortunately, using this my girlfriend would never get any of my emails.
"I'm sorry. Really, really, really, really sorry. I'm so very, very, very sorry. I'm sorry..."
Not (static exhibition)+(educational purposes).
They mean static(exhibition + education).
I love my GBA, but I still completely fail to understand why Nintendo built this system, launched it with a number of SNES ports, continues to port SNES games to it, and still gave us fewer buttons than the SNES controller.
How hard would it have been to add the X and Y buttons? Front-lit or not, there's no way I'm buying another GBA until it comes with more buttons.
I picked up a laptop over the summer. Small little Vaio. I don't get wireless access in most of my classrooms, but I do in some and in many places I can go between classes. I use my laptop for all my note-taking in class, even if I don't have internet access at the time.
I believe that if I hadn't had this laptop with me, I wouldn't have gone at all. For three straight semesters I ended up dropping all my classes out of a sort of lethargy and unwillingness to make the commute to school. This gives some added value to being there, and as a consequence I don't mind as much going to class.
One of the main problems is that for artists of all stripes, the *AA is the only reliable way for them (the lucky few of them) to reliably reach an audience and make a living, even if they're being robbed.
There needs to be a genuine, viable alternative. At the least, for ever dollar you spend buying a major label CD or DVD, spend another one on a small-run album from a local band or just drop the cash in the hat of the guy on the streetcorner with the guitar.
What would be ideal is a corporation with the distributing channels and strengths of the *AAs, but with the needs of the artists and consumers coming before those of the executives. Anybody know how we can set that up?
At FIU down here in Miami we've been making progress. We've got access throughout the library, in the student union, and in parts of maybe a third of the buildings on campus. I can get access in some of my classrooms but not others.
One of the features I think is nice is that in the library you can borrow a wireless-enable laptop for a few hours, and the computer lab elsewhere loans out PCMCIA cards.
As for security, you have to register the MAC address of your card (through a nice automated system that lets you get up in under 15 minutes) before being able to connect.