the Bihn factory was rushing to fill holiday orders, and had run short of shoulder straps, so I needed to supply my own from a different bag
"Great bags as long as you can fly to the factory and give them a new strap!"
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Here in the UK though, I purchased it online from GAME. They shipped me it to arrive on the Thursday before the Friday release and although GAME got it me early, I couldn't play it because I couldn't activate it via Steam.
So to be clear, you received a game before the street date and got upset that you couldn't play it early. Were you aware that you ran into one of the huge assets of Steam, that games can't be played by those who beg/bribe/steal the game early?
It was a HUGE victory for Valve when Half-Life 2 was released and paying customers were the first to play it, rather than pirates downloading leaked gold master copies two weeks before the street date.
Steam isn't going away because you are upset you couldn't play a game a day before its release date. And your retailer was right, if they had shipped you the game later it would probably have arrived days after the release date, and for a guy so concerned about 1 day of waiting that probably would have infuriated you even more.
The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid - ever - because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.
'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.'
It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that - ever notice that? - and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over - not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace.
Imagine your OS as a bank of roms, and your PC as a fully integrated machine rather than a patchwork of PCI cards and third party drivers.... like an iphone?
My father told me once that my Grandfather was a poor student and had discipline problems. One of his teachers noticed his rebellious attitude and successfully countered it by giving him additional responsibilities over his classmates.
I think it's a variation on the adage "if you can't beat'em, join'em". If you are in a position of power and someone is criticising the way things are being handled, invite them to help you handle them. They will be forced to put up or shut up, and if they criticise further they will be criticising themselves, which humans don't enjoy doing publicly.
China gave us Sun Tzu and the Art of War, they have an ancient civilization that was only opened with opium, black powder, and cannonballs. Their everyday politics are probably fascinating.
When traveling across Europe, or Australia or NZ, it is quite easy to pick the Canadians out. It seems that a very large percentage keep a Maple leaf somewhere on their body or clothing. Evidently, they do not like people assuming that they are Americans due to their accent, so they over compensate.
1. How is wearing a maple leaf overcompensating for a reasonable problem? 2. How many of those folks wearing a maple leaf are Americans who don't like people assuming that they are Americans?
MTS is our AT&T, it's the big bad phone company. I believe it's the second largest company in our province, behind the power company. HUB is a tiny business that I had never heard of. This is very much a David vs. Goliath thing, the HUB guy wants MTS to go easy on the bill because they have money. MTS has dropped all responsibility because it's not their equipment that was hacked, but this guy has come back with "you should have notified me earlier of abnormal usage on my phone lines".
The HUB guy will have to lay off one of his staff unless MTS goes easy on this bill. His only method of leverage on MTS is to speak to the newspaper. That's the reason he's risking public embarrassment.
Canadians crossing the border into the United States are almost always covered by alternate legislation than the Rest of The World. Since I was a child the only identification a Canadian needed was a birth certificate. Since 9/11 the Americans have been trying to require passports for land crossings but it keeps being pushed back, although it is required for air travel by Canadians into the USA now.
instead of mucking with inodes, if you have to preserve the directory structure, just stick everything in a big old zip or rar file. i'm sure you have some requirement for why you aren't doing this, but you didn't mention it.
when people say "free as in beer" that doesn't mean it is about free beer. when they say "free as in speech" that doesn't mean it is about free speech.
you understand the difference between gratis and libre, the "as in" similes have become shorthand to explain the difference to people who are not aware of it.
at my former emplyer, we used tyan motherboards in our racks (99% sure it was the S2891), they have a 2-character LED display that shows a hex code during the boot process, which corresponds to a table in the user manual.
they are dual-socket opteron hardware designed for servers but the technology is still out there..
The data set for a show in a VFX studio includes several revisions of every shot, data such as models and textures (in this case a centimeter scan of an entire road), and thousands of revisions of project files, compositing data, etc etc etc.
You have to look at the diagram in the wikipedia article you linked. The terms 2K and 4K as used in the visual effects industry refer to frame width. 2K is 2048 wide and 4K is 4096 wide.
It is different than the terms used for HDTV, where 1080p means 1080 vertical.
i just meant to say that as an aide to the PM he may not have been able to keep his penis out of the hands of the chinese but he could've been a bit more careful with government property.
he was only informally reprimanded so we're not discussing whether he should get his job back.
the general public's perception of our beloved woz seems very poor. i saw adam corolla as a guest on jay leno describing his meeting with some guy "dressed like a hobo" who he had "no idea was behind apple computers".
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the Bihn factory was rushing to fill holiday orders, and had run short of shoulder straps, so I needed to supply my own from a different bag
"Great bags as long as you can fly to the factory and give them a new strap!"
Here in the UK though, I purchased it online from GAME. They shipped me it to arrive on the Thursday before the Friday release and although GAME got it me early, I couldn't play it because I couldn't activate it via Steam.
So to be clear, you received a game before the street date and got upset that you couldn't play it early. Were you aware that you ran into one of the huge assets of Steam, that games can't be played by those who beg/bribe/steal the game early?
It was a HUGE victory for Valve when Half-Life 2 was released and paying customers were the first to play it, rather than pirates downloading leaked gold master copies two weeks before the street date.
Steam isn't going away because you are upset you couldn't play a game a day before its release date. And your retailer was right, if they had shipped you the game later it would probably have arrived days after the release date, and for a guy so concerned about 1 day of waiting that probably would have infuriated you even more.
The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid - ever - because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.
'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.'
It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that - ever notice that? - and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over - not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace.
-- Bill Hicks
Imagine your OS as a bank of roms, and your PC as a fully integrated machine rather than a patchwork of PCI cards and third party drivers. ... like an iphone?
That or have your very own Sea World like base if you can anchor it in international waters.
Sea World? Will Shamu be there?
i'd play it.. :(
My father told me once that my Grandfather was a poor student and had discipline problems. One of his teachers noticed his rebellious attitude and successfully countered it by giving him additional responsibilities over his classmates.
I think it's a variation on the adage "if you can't beat'em, join'em". If you are in a position of power and someone is criticising the way things are being handled, invite them to help you handle them. They will be forced to put up or shut up, and if they criticise further they will be criticising themselves, which humans don't enjoy doing publicly.
China gave us Sun Tzu and the Art of War, they have an ancient civilization that was only opened with opium, black powder, and cannonballs. Their everyday politics are probably fascinating.
His picture is available online, and he looks like a regular decent guy, for whatever that's worth.
Sorry, he's not attractive enough for me to consider him a network security expert (what the hell???)
When traveling across Europe, or Australia or NZ, it is quite easy to pick the Canadians out. It seems that a very large percentage keep a Maple leaf somewhere on their body or clothing. Evidently, they do not like people assuming that they are Americans due to their accent, so they over compensate.
1. How is wearing a maple leaf overcompensating for a reasonable problem?
2. How many of those folks wearing a maple leaf are Americans who don't like people assuming that they are Americans?
GoonSwarm basically had this PR coup handed to them on a silver platter, they had done nothing themselves to make this happen.
When Kim Philby defected, do you think the media at the time focused on how little effort the Soviets expended to get him on their side?
A coup is a coup.
Is there a bunch of hard drive activity during the "spikes"? That could help diagnosis.
General tips:
Reboot the machine. (Yeah, yeah)
Try a different (better?) anti-virus package.
If all else fails, try doing a system restore to a point *before* your machine started behaving strangely.
IMAP doesn't have a calendar, and Outlook's IMAP support is really terrible.
Don't get me wrong, I hope Exchange/Outlook dies out, but IMAP is not a drop in replacement, server side or client side.
Old Google:
Here's some money! You're awesome! We're awesome!
New Google:
Here's some (FREE!) company branded merchandise! We'd love you to improve it so we can make more money! We're awesome!"
Some context from a native of Winnipeg:
MTS is our AT&T, it's the big bad phone company. I believe it's the second largest company in our province, behind the power company. HUB is a tiny business that I had never heard of. This is very much a David vs. Goliath thing, the HUB guy wants MTS to go easy on the bill because they have money. MTS has dropped all responsibility because it's not their equipment that was hacked, but this guy has come back with "you should have notified me earlier of abnormal usage on my phone lines".
The HUB guy will have to lay off one of his staff unless MTS goes easy on this bill. His only method of leverage on MTS is to speak to the newspaper. That's the reason he's risking public embarrassment.
Canadians crossing the border into the United States are almost always covered by alternate legislation than the Rest of The World. Since I was a child the only identification a Canadian needed was a birth certificate. Since 9/11 the Americans have been trying to require passports for land crossings but it keeps being pushed back, although it is required for air travel by Canadians into the USA now.
I didn't know they were the same country?
No, just good friends.
newgroups
instead of mucking with inodes, if you have to preserve the directory structure, just stick everything in a big old zip or rar file. i'm sure you have some requirement for why you aren't doing this, but you didn't mention it.
Dear Slashdot Admin,
What did you just do to tags? I previously ignored them, and now I am ignoring them at two or three times the size they were a few hours ago.
To add insult to injury, I just disabled "display tags" in my user preferences and they haven't gone away! What the hell?!
-Dave
when people say "free as in beer" that doesn't mean it is about free beer. when they say "free as in speech" that doesn't mean it is about free speech.
you understand the difference between gratis and libre, the "as in" similes have become shorthand to explain the difference to people who are not aware of it.
at my former emplyer, we used tyan motherboards in our racks (99% sure it was the S2891), they have a 2-character LED display that shows a hex code during the boot process, which corresponds to a table in the user manual.
they are dual-socket opteron hardware designed for servers but the technology is still out there..
The data set for a show in a VFX studio includes several revisions of every shot, data such as models and textures (in this case a centimeter scan of an entire road), and thousands of revisions of project files, compositing data, etc etc etc.
You have to look at the diagram in the wikipedia article you linked. The terms 2K and 4K as used in the visual effects industry refer to frame width. 2K is 2048 wide and 4K is 4096 wide.
It is different than the terms used for HDTV, where 1080p means 1080 vertical.
(I've worked in a VFX shop)
i just meant to say that as an aide to the PM he may not have been able to keep his penis out of the hands of the chinese but he could've been a bit more careful with government property.
he was only informally reprimanded so we're not discussing whether he should get his job back.
intelligence gathering doesn't have to be subtle to be effective.
whether or not his phone ended up in the hands of a foreign service he was foolish to have it stolen so obviously.
the general public's perception of our beloved woz seems very poor. i saw adam corolla as a guest on jay leno describing his meeting with some guy "dressed like a hobo" who he had "no idea was behind apple computers".