Yeah good ol' Harry Fux pulled the same crap with The OnLine Guitar Archive. I haven't been there in a while, but looks like they're up and running succesfully. I checked their About Page and at the bottom it mentions they need funds to pursure a case about the legality of "by ear" transcriptions. I've donated in the past and I think I'll do it again now...
Giuliani is an amazing mayor. Whether or not you agree with everything he does is not the issue. The point is that he is decisive, no-nonsense and gets things done. He is not a PR person, he is a decision maker. It is a shame that his term is ending soon (term limits), but but I know he will move up the political ladder and hopefully will become active in federal government where someone with passion and talent like his is sorely needed.
To add a little graphics to the text, how about those Sierra Games such as King's Quest series, the Police Quest Series, the Space Quest Series, etc... Especially the earlier ones that required typing in order to accomplish tasks.
These boots were mentioned in a book called "More Future Stuff: Over 250 Inventions That Will Change Your Life By 2001"... Amazon has this book
listed as being out of print...
I frankly think cable is the way to go. I live in Central Jersey and have CableVision's Optimum Online service. I live in a fairly well-to-do area (meaning most of my neighbors probably have cable) and I routinely get 100KB/sec transfer rates and I have hit as high as 350KB/sec and my HalfLife ping is normally 70 or less... All this while my father in the next town has DSL and _NEVER_ (not even at 3am) gets anything over 50KB/sec.
Here's a game that a few friends and I made up one night while sitting around the campfire late at night. It also consists of changing the rules as you go (actually, it is more like you are more like 'deciding' the rules as you go.) We called it "The DaisyChain Game" for lack of a better name. Basically, someone starts out by saying a common phrase, sentence, proper name, etc... Then the next person in the circle takes either the last word or last part of the word in the previous person's phrase and uses it to start off another common phrase, sentence, etc... For example, a standard round might sound like this:
Person1: daisy chain Person2: chain smoking Person3: king of the hill
etc, etc...
One of the best things about the game is that you will start to realize what kinds of phrases you will accept as a group and what kinds of phrases or sentences are just not common enough to be accepted. For example, we decided that if someone ends a phrase with a weird word (for example, Beef-A-Roni) we would accept a "morph" of that word, or word part, in order to start the next phrase. For example, we'd use "A-Roni" from Beef-A-Roni to start the phrase "Our only way out" ('A-Roni' was morphed into 'our only').
Conversely, we decided not to accept very flimsy sentences. For example, if someone's phrase ends with "close", we would accept "close call" from the next person, but not "close the door" (it was just too flimsy.)
I suppose you could score the game, but it'd be highly subjective as to how original each new phrase was and how many points each one should get. We always played for the fun of it and we'd pass hours just going around and around.
While this won't get you a tax break, it is a pretty good idea... and it is in the same spirit. Linuxfund.org has a page where you can apply for a credit card. When you make a purchase, a percentage of the total is donated to Linuxfund.org which in turn will donate it to a Free Software project.
If you are going to be implementing a "built-in holidays" as mentioned in the parent post, remember to avoid being too US-centric. Perhaps there can be a "set country" feature where you can set what country you are in and that way it will only embed the holidys observed in that country. Either that, or all known holidays from the world can be put on a check list and the user can then can check off what holidays they want to show up on the calendar.
I have heard of such a program called "PC RATINGS" (now they have changed their name to e-Trends)...
I am not sure if this is the way the company recruits people to run their program (described by them as "Nielsen ratings for personal computers") but I do know that when you agree to do it, they send you a program on disk and ask you to always have it running.
My father used to run this years ago, but there was never really any reward for doing so, so he quit.
I guess it really doesn't matter why they are doing it... It's just sad to see that government must give some type of reward for behavior that we all should be exhibiting for our own good (and the good of future generations.)
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No, just this and a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Don't worry. No goatse links. Just a collection of "Racks of the World"
rack rack rack rack rack rack rack rack
Yeah good ol' Harry Fux pulled the same crap with The OnLine Guitar Archive. I haven't been there in a while, but looks like they're up and running succesfully. I checked their About Page and at the bottom it mentions they need funds to pursure a case about the legality of "by ear" transcriptions. I've donated in the past and I think I'll do it again now...
According to O'Reilly's "PC Hardware in a Nutshell" even a low-end SCSI hard drive from 5 years ago is faster than a high end IDE drive right now.
The lines here in NY were AROUND THE BLOCK! Don't know if the overall numbers have jumped, but here in NY I am sure they have.
Switch to UGATE
http://www.maxgate.net
I have an old UGATE-3000 and it works like a charm for 3 years now.
All the money from PayPal's donation page goes there also, just like the Amazon page. The site is here...
l ief-outside
Or copy and paste: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/re
Giuliani is an amazing mayor. Whether or not you agree with everything he does is not the issue. The point is that he is decisive, no-nonsense and gets things done. He is not a PR person, he is a decision maker. It is a shame that his term is ending soon (term limits), but but I know he will move up the political ladder and hopefully will become active in federal government where someone with passion and talent like his is sorely needed.
To add a little graphics to the text, how about those Sierra Games such as King's Quest series, the Police Quest Series, the Space Quest Series, etc... Especially the earlier ones that required typing in order to accomplish tasks.
No, it's just that much of a classic.
These boots were mentioned in a book called "More Future Stuff: Over 250 Inventions That Will Change Your Life By 2001"... Amazon has this book listed as being out of print...
I frankly think cable is the way to go. I live in Central Jersey and have CableVision's Optimum Online service. I live in a fairly well-to-do area (meaning most of my neighbors probably have cable) and I routinely get 100KB/sec transfer rates and I have hit as high as 350KB/sec and my HalfLife ping is normally 70 or less... All this while my father in the next town has DSL and _NEVER_ (not even at 3am) gets anything over 50KB/sec.
Here's a game that a few friends and I made up one night while sitting around the campfire late at night. It also consists of changing the rules as you go (actually, it is more like you are more like 'deciding' the rules as you go.) We called it "The DaisyChain Game" for lack of a better name. Basically, someone starts out by saying a common phrase, sentence, proper name, etc... Then the next person in the circle takes either the last word or last part of the word in the previous person's phrase and uses it to start off another common phrase, sentence, etc... For example, a standard round might sound like this:
Person1: daisy chain
Person2: chain smoking
Person3: king of the hill
etc, etc...
One of the best things about the game is that you will start to realize what kinds of phrases you will accept as a group and what kinds of phrases or sentences are just not common enough to be accepted. For example, we decided that if someone ends a phrase with a weird word (for example, Beef-A-Roni) we would accept a "morph" of that word, or word part, in order to start the next phrase. For example, we'd use "A-Roni" from Beef-A-Roni to start the phrase "Our only way out" ('A-Roni' was morphed into 'our only').
Conversely, we decided not to accept very flimsy sentences. For example, if someone's phrase ends with "close", we would accept "close call" from the next person, but not "close the door" (it was just too flimsy.)
I suppose you could score the game, but it'd be highly subjective as to how original each new phrase was and how many points each one should get. We always played for the fun of it and we'd pass hours just going around and around.
Isn't that supposed to read "simply lying"?
Then he ends his athletic career, broke, stupid and becomes a bartender.
Or rather, "Then he ends his athletic career, acts in stupid movies, and ends up committing an obvious double homocide of which he is cleared."
But Q is dead now... oh hell, now what'll he do?
That purported drug dealer is actually M Knight Shyamalan himself. See here to compare.
While this won't get you a tax break, it is a pretty good idea... and it is in the same spirit. Linuxfund.org has a page where you can apply for a credit card. When you make a purchase, a percentage of the total is donated to Linuxfund.org which in turn will donate it to a Free Software project.
NVidia might have good video cards, but their way of handling themselves really sucks. Check here.
If you are going to be implementing a "built-in holidays" as mentioned in the parent post, remember to avoid being too US-centric. Perhaps there can be a "set country" feature where you can set what country you are in and that way it will only embed the holidys observed in that country. Either that, or all known holidays from the world can be put on a check list and the user can then can check off what holidays they want to show up on the calendar.
I have heard of such a program called "PC RATINGS" (now they have changed their name to e-Trends)...
I am not sure if this is the way the company recruits people to run their program (described by them as "Nielsen ratings for personal computers") but I do know that when you agree to do it, they send you a program on disk and ask you to always have it running.
My father used to run this years ago, but there was never really any reward for doing so, so he quit.
Oh crap, I just noticed that I've been posting everything witha +1 bonus point. Oh crap, my karma's going to feel this....
I guess it really doesn't matter why they are doing it... It's just sad to see that government must give some type of reward for behavior that we all should be exhibiting for our own good (and the good of future generations.)
Dammit, I screwed up the tag. freeboxen.com
Oh yeah... the site is