And I wonder how many people bought the box with/without the coupon that had no need for it (they had cable, satellite, or already had a digital box in their TV).
Or people like me, who don't own a TV. I was going to take a shotgun to it, but decide that was an environmental hazard so I gave it away.
Because it is more beneficial than cigarettes and we couldn't have that! Also currently there is not a viable commercial infrastructure to regulate and tax it. Since it's a plant that is grown by unlicensed/regulated people we couldn't allow it!
I have a Meade DSI astronomical CCD. I bought it in 2005, it a USB device with an uploaded firmware. I was simple to figure out how to upload the firmware to use the camera from Linux, but the CMYK de-bayer matrix is causing me grief. I can decode an "image" but it isn't pretty.
Spider did a superb job. I wrote a review that's posted somewhere below. I was very skeptical myself and being a fan of Heinlein's works and less of of Spider, I always hated when Spider was called "the new Heinlein," but I feel very different after reading Variable Star.
I really really did not believe I wouldd read this book and think "wow this is a Heinlein novel." I never liked the NY Times quote "I'd nominate Spider Robison as the new Robert Heinein." quote. I did not fully believe John Varley's quote that it Robert Heinlein was at Spider Robinson's side.
It is now obviously I was wrong; very very very very wrong. I would put more very's in but it wouldn't get to the point. Heinlein outlined the journey; Spider followed it. Only a few points disappointed me (IMO Heinlein never pun'd that much; and I didn't like reading 'googled around' 2 or 3 times).
The following is early spoilerish material
The book is a story of a boy, Joel, who was in love with a girl, Jinny. They complete junionr college and start planning for the future. She wants to marry him, he wants to finish college to support her. When he finally accepts that he would marry her if he can support her, she takes him to "her home". Turns out this is a hidden house buried in a glacier. The house is home to Conrad of Conrad (I don't recall this in other Heinlein novels, but from what I can gather think Harriman Enterprises, but bigger; much bigger). After meeting Conrad of Conrad and telling him where to go stick his money/fortune/plans for Joel's with Jinny, he escapes back to his apartment with the help of Jinny's little cousin Elelyn.
After a major bender, he is reminded of a ship leaving to start a colony on a distant planet. He spends the last of his money to ge to FL and tries to get on. He's told that he's too drunk to make the decision but he could come back in a few days if he's sober and still wants to go. He of course returns and gets on the ship. This is where most of the story happens. I'm not going to get into many of the details because that would spoil the fun. There is talk of line/group marriages; there's music; there's science; there's romance and despair, and of course there's hope when all hope is lost.
Some of you may hate me for saying this, but if Heinlein had written this book he would have had a hard time improving on what was written.
Oh yes.... lets endanger our lives and the lives of future generations so that people can keep their jobs. Sign the fucking treaty and impose major import TAXES on people who out-source jobs.
Support our troops; bring them home. By fighting this war we are letting the terrorist win.
They want us to attack. They need us to attack. The more we attack; the stronger they grow. The stronger they grow the weaker we are. The weaker we are; the poorer we are.
SCO sues you, now you have to prove in court what all your systems run. Microsoft will be sitting the side lines, "Uhh you have 51 computers running Windows??? You only have a license for 50! We're going to sue you too!"
Maybe this can help NASA see some competition and work harder! Now if we could all just work together and not blow each other up!
<sarcasm>Quote from Bush: "Let them colonize the moon first, we'll declare them terrorists and invade them once they have finishted the hard stuff."</sarcasm>
but my list would be MUCH longer...and I've acctually even had a few people respond with nice replys thanking me for pointing out their open relay....hah
I pull all the servers from the emails, and email about 30 people at each basically saying f&3k you leave me alone....It's been optimized over time and works for the most part....when a spammer gets my email addr..its normally not for more than 3 days... before they stop....I've had quite a few spammers saying that they aren't spamming me, but that I signed up....they just get the 30 messages again....some of them even keep sending me messages saying I've been removed...and they get 30 more.....of course I have a very limited number of people I give my email address to so I only have to filter their email address, and they know not to email me if they use a different email addr. I get about 3 spams a day now....versus 70-80 before and it's only been 3 months....and of course most of the spam I get is from people who have bought my email addr from some list...but hopefully in time it'll be off the lists...
But we have found life thriving in places like volcanic ash spewing from the sea floor...we never expected to find it there... What you are searching for always ends up being in the unexpected places.
They say their are habitable for life...why do we always assume every life form will be exactly like us and need our environment to thirve? For some other form of life they may thrive on Venus or Jupiter.
Company A buys 1000 PC's from say HP. The systems come loaded with a Windows operating system. The company however reinstalls Windows with their license that they now have to pay for yearly/monthly, etc...Why not keep the license on the desktop they bought? Am I missing something? WHen you buy a PC does the EULA say 'You can't use this for commercial use?'
Probably they didn't want to hurt one of the largest OEM's of Windows.....also the article stated they had 25 desktop and 1 server...not a very big fish to try and fry....
"Oh you are running Linux? We don't support that so hopefully you can get it working yourself, I'll just use my laptop to ensure the cable modem works."
He then hooked up the cable modem to his laptop, asks me to for some website, I gave him a web address and he brought it up, and asked if there was any other website I'd like to see to ensure the cable modem was working, then asked me to sign the paper saying it worked... My kind of cable modem company....
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And I wonder how many people bought the box with/without the coupon that had no need for it (they had cable, satellite, or already had a digital box in their TV).
Or people like me, who don't own a TV. I was going to take a shotgun to it, but decide that was an environmental hazard so I gave it away.
Because it is more beneficial than cigarettes and we couldn't have that! Also currently there is not a viable commercial infrastructure to regulate and tax it. Since it's a plant that is grown by unlicensed/regulated people we couldn't allow it!
That their webpage to tell you why firefox is blocked, doesn't work in firefox.
...anyone with a computer could be a terrorist and should be thrown into jail.
I have a Meade DSI astronomical CCD. I bought it in 2005, it a USB device with an uploaded firmware. I was simple to figure out how to upload the firmware to use the camera from Linux, but the CMYK de-bayer matrix is causing me grief. I can decode an "image" but it isn't pretty.
21 years. That should beat the wait time for Duke Nukem Forever!
Only supports IE. It has no Firefox support, ATM
They provide machines that allow people to copy copyrighted material!
They didn't have a Spanish version available.
Spider did a superb job. I wrote a review that's posted somewhere below. I was very skeptical myself and being a fan of Heinlein's works and less of of Spider, I always hated when Spider was called "the new Heinlein," but I feel very different after reading Variable Star.
3rd, there is also "For Us, The Living" which he wrote in 1936 or so and was first published in 2003.
I really really did not believe I wouldd read this book and think "wow this is a Heinlein novel." I never liked the NY Times quote "I'd nominate Spider Robison as the new Robert Heinein." quote. I did not fully believe John Varley's quote that it Robert Heinlein was at Spider Robinson's side.
It is now obviously I was wrong; very very very very wrong. I would put more very's in but it wouldn't get to the point. Heinlein outlined the journey; Spider followed it. Only a few points disappointed me (IMO Heinlein never pun'd that much; and I didn't like reading 'googled around' 2 or 3 times).
The following is early spoilerish material
The book is a story of a boy, Joel, who was in love with a girl, Jinny. They complete junionr college and start planning for the future. She wants to marry him, he wants to finish college to support her. When he finally accepts that he would marry her if he can support her, she takes him to "her home". Turns out this is a hidden house buried in a glacier. The house is home to Conrad of Conrad (I don't recall this in other Heinlein novels, but from what I can gather think Harriman Enterprises, but bigger; much bigger). After meeting Conrad of Conrad and telling him where to go stick his money/fortune/plans for Joel's with Jinny, he escapes back to his apartment with the help of Jinny's little cousin Elelyn.
After a major bender, he is reminded of a ship leaving to start a colony on a distant planet. He spends the last of his money to ge to FL and tries to get on. He's told that he's too drunk to make the decision but he could come back in a few days if he's sober and still wants to go. He of course returns and gets on the ship. This is where most of the story happens. I'm not going to get into many of the details because that would spoil the fun. There is talk of line/group marriages; there's music; there's science; there's romance and despair, and of course there's hope when all hope is lost.
Some of you may hate me for saying this, but if Heinlein had written this book he would have had a hard time improving on what was written.
'nuff said.
Oh yes.... lets endanger our lives and the lives of future generations so that people can keep their jobs. Sign the fucking treaty and impose major import TAXES on people who out-source jobs.
Support our troops; bring them home. By fighting this war we are letting the terrorist win.
They want us to attack. They need us to attack.
The more we attack; the stronger they grow.
The stronger they grow the weaker we are.
The weaker we are; the poorer we are.
They wouldn'thave sued IBM if IBM paid up the $3 billion. They won't sue Linux companies if they pay them either.....duh....
We have no plans on suing you right now, but pay us so won't sue you!
SCO sues you, now you have to prove in court what all your systems run. Microsoft will be sitting the side lines, "Uhh you have 51 computers running Windows??? You only have a license for 50! We're going to sue you too!"
<sarcasm>Quote from Bush: "Let them colonize the moon first, we'll declare them terrorists and invade them once they have finishted the hard stuff."</sarcasm>
I further claim that George W. Bush is a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror.
but my list would be MUCH longer...and I've acctually even had a few people respond with nice replys thanking me for pointing out their open relay....hah
I pull all the servers from the emails, and email about 30 people at each basically saying f&3k you leave me alone....It's been optimized over time and works for the most part....when a spammer gets my email addr ..its normally not for more than 3 days... before they stop....I've had quite a few spammers saying that they aren't spamming me, but that I signed up....they just get the 30 messages again....some of them even keep sending me messages saying I've been removed...and they get 30 more.....of course I have a very limited number of people I give my email address to so I only have to filter their email address, and they know not to email me if they use a different email addr. I get about 3 spams a day now....versus 70-80 before and it's only been 3 months....and of course most of the spam I get is from people who have bought my email addr from some list...but hopefully in time it'll be off the lists...
But we have found life thriving in places like volcanic ash spewing from the sea floor...we never expected to find it there... What you are searching for always ends up being in the unexpected places.
They say their are habitable for life...why do we always assume every life form will be exactly like us and need our environment to thirve? For some other form of life they may thrive on Venus or Jupiter.
Company A buys 1000 PC's from say HP. The systems come loaded with a Windows operating system. The company however reinstalls Windows with their license that they now have to pay for yearly/monthly, etc...Why not keep the license on the desktop they bought? Am I missing something? WHen you buy a PC does the EULA say 'You can't use this for commercial use?'
Probably they didn't want to hurt one of the largest OEM's of Windows.....also the article stated they had 25 desktop and 1 server...not a very big fish to try and fry....
He then hooked up the cable modem to his laptop, asks me to for some website, I gave him a web address and he brought it up, and asked if there was any other website I'd like to see to ensure the cable modem was working, then asked me to sign the paper saying it worked... My kind of cable modem company....