let me say that Crossover lets me do the one thing I need to - run Microsoft crap. Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, and Solomon (an accounting/timecard application).
I'd use Evolution - but we're on Exchange 5.5 and I can't use the calendar (very important).
I do use OpenOffice also, but sometimes you actually do need the real deal, for crazy marked-up contracts with goofy checkboxes and whatnot. It's good to be able to open network diagrams in Visio. Also, I like to fill in my timecard so I get paid.:)
Obviously, the situation is not ideal, but it lets me run Linux at work, which is vastly helpful to actually doing my job. It's just that all the other junk associated with having a job - HR, Legal, etc kind of things - require me to have Microsoft products.
Is anyone else annoyed that game developers are now being called the game industry? It's bad enough that they remain nearly anonymous while the company takes most of the credit, but now the innovations and individuals are being blobbed together as part of a mindless industry?
You prefer the egos of people like John Romero and George Lucas?
Basically, the conditions are 1) for gain (including trading for other stuff) or 2) distribute more than $1000 worth of stuff within 180 days --> jail time + fine
How in the hell did one voting machine take over 32000 votes? Suppose they had a 16 hour window to vote, that would mean it averaged less than 2 seconds per vote.
Read the article:
Election officials quickly determined the problem was caused by the Unity Software that pulls together votes from five machines tabulating absentee ballots.
In other words, they were feeding absentee ballots to 5 machines, and then the machine that added up those 5 machines' totals overflowed.
No 16 hour time limit, as these are the mail-in votes.
I had been doing this with my P133 for years. Then I moved to a new area, and got a new computer. Now I have massive ammounts off background (feedback) noise so that's not an option for me anymore. I've tried every combination of grounding that I can, and it's to no avail. So it was back to crappy PC speakers for me *sigh*.
An optical out (SPDIF) from your sound card to your stereo will take care of that. No electricity (only light) = no grounding problems. Of course both your sound card and stereo have to support that, but even $25 sounds cards do these days.
It wouldn't be a "problem" if current English had a more formal way of differentiating 2nd-person singular from 2nd-person plural. We use "you all" or "you guys" because we don't use "thou" and "ye" anymore.
I tried their new search http://mobile.yahoo.com/search and it asploded my Samsung A500. The first time I loaded the page, the web browser closed. The second time, the phone rebooted! I have reset my phone several times, same results.
Then I read the page in a real browser, and they SMS you a link. That link worked in my phone.
Ah but in exchange for that monopoly the cable company had to deliver service to areas they wouldn't have rather than having 10 companies stringing cable through the city center providing cheap TV to people who lived in dense apartments and nothing to anyone who lived in less populous neighborhoods.
Cable business licenses could be granted with the stipulation that they service all areas; you don't need a monopoly for that. Speaking of which, I'm glad you admit it's a monopoly.. because the reason I replied was that you wrote:
A monopoly of our own cable, sure. But not a monopoly on service.
Good or bad (I didn't take a side), in most cities, there is a city-mandated monopoly on cable service.
Just to let you know, TWC is a franchise based business.
In this context, franchise does not mean the same thing as, say, a McDonald's franchise. Time Warner is the franchisee from the city. There is no small corporation that is franchising from Time Warner.
Also, don't blame your local cable company if the industry compitition does not want to compete with us through laying down their own network in your area. In fact, legally...you are not guarantied to even have cable TV service, unlike phone service.
Most cities contract with one cable provider and PROHIBIT other providers from laying cable. Thus, a monopoly.
We're not guaranteed cable, true, but that doesn't change the fact that cable is a monopoly in most cities in the US.
I'm an Aussie. Here in Australia, to root means something completely different to what you USAians would mean. Short answer is that yes, I would root for them. In fact, I'd root for anybody...
So what does "root for" mean down under? The British-American dictionary has failed me, and there doesn't seem to be an Aussie-US (or Aussie-British) one.
We've brought over a couple of Mustangs, a couple of Dodge Chargers, and a few others. Apart from signs of the emission controls being carefully adjusted, the rest of the car was in a terrible state - so much so that we had to scrap two. Things like, chassis legs pop-riveted on, bits of biscuit tin sitting on the floor under the carpet (not welded down, not even glued in, just lying over the holes in the floorpan), brake pipes that had been patched with petrol hose, some real suicide merchant horror stories.
Every state in the US has different laws with regards to vehicles.. it's not so much "exempt" as it is "California doesn't have a law like that", much as France isn't "exempt" from Germany's laws; they're different legal systems, even though they're both part of the EU. Indeed, the US is structured much like the EU is, it's just that over the years the central federal government has taken over many more things with sometimes questionable court decisions and things like they give the states money for highways, but only if they set speed limits the federal goverment likes. There's no reason an individual state couldn't decide to have a 200mph speed limit, except the federal government would stop helping them out with highway funds.
As far as I can tell California has smog/emission laws, but not safety inspections. It's illegal to operate an unsafe vehicle on the road in California (as everywhere in the US), but you're not required to prove the car's safety before getting a license plate, as you do in North Carolina.
If one of those cars were stopped by a policeman, they could be given a ticket, and in an accident the driver would be liable due to negligence. Otherwise, it seems there is no penalty for having a broken-down heap of a car.
Since, from what I see of cars friends of mine have imported, there does not seem to be any kind of equivalent in the US, maybe it's not a familiar term over there.
It's normally just called "inspection", no special acronym. Check the headlights, emissions, horn, etc.
As if you Americans ever feel the need to explain your American terms and references. You usually don't even realise you are using them, you just assume the whole world is America. Well now you know what the rest of the world feels like when you talk.
As an American, I do try to explain my terms when speaking to an international audience (the internet). Of course, I have non-American friends, so I'm quite aware of it. On the occasion that I don't fully explain myself, and someone inquires, I try to give them an explanation instead of a snide answer.
Yes, there are stupid, "the world revolves around me" people in the US, as everywhere. If it seems that the US has more idiots, keep in mind that the US has a population that is 4.8 times the UK's (293,027,57 vs 60,270,708), so it's bound to have 4.8 times the idiots that the UK does.
It would be best if everyone explained their terms, Americans included. Imagine if everyone was able to figure out what you were talking about.. we might actually be able to understand each other.:)
I finally figured out that "UKMOT" is what you're talking about, but no, it wasn't obvious, even after Googling.
Interestingly, Google UK doesn't even return UKMOT as a result on the first page. Though if you click "Pages from the UK", you get not UKMOT, but this page
With the amount of cross-Atlantic traffic, you could've helped us Yanks (not to mention the non-native English speakers) out with at least the full name.. which, even after reading their FAQ I still don't know what MOT stands for.
You could've also said "annual saftey inspection" in the original post instead of the UK-specific "MOT".
You're obviously trying to express information (by posting), which I applaud; you'll reach many more minds if you make your post self-explanatory, or at least provide a link.
Shifting into neutral whilst moving is classed as A Stupid Manouver(TM) because coasting technically doesn't give you much control over your vehicle - slowing down and steering isn't always enough.
Cars only do three things - speed up, slow down, and turn. In neutral, yes, we've taken away the speeding up option, so you only have 2/3 the control you would have otherwise. However, that's not necessarily stupid; there's not a lot of reasons to speed up when you're already traveling 90mph. Besides, you can always rev your engine back up and then slip into gear.
Now, if the car were to prevent me from jumping into reverse when I was traveling more than, say, 10mph forward.. I would consider that prevention of a "stupid" move, one that you should never make. Going into/out of neutral at high speed, though, isn't necessarily stupid, and thus shouldn't be prevented by the car.
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let me say that Crossover lets me do the one thing I need to - run Microsoft crap. Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, and Solomon (an accounting/timecard application).
:)
I'd use Evolution - but we're on Exchange 5.5 and I can't use the calendar (very important).
I do use OpenOffice also, but sometimes you actually do need the real deal, for crazy marked-up contracts with goofy checkboxes and whatnot. It's good to be able to open network diagrams in Visio. Also, I like to fill in my timecard so I get paid.
Obviously, the situation is not ideal, but it lets me run Linux at work, which is vastly helpful to actually doing my job. It's just that all the other junk associated with having a job - HR, Legal, etc kind of things - require me to have Microsoft products.
Just uncheck Tools/Options/Advanced/Tabbed Browsing/Select new tabs opened from links.
:)
(For Linux it's Edit/Preferences instead of Tools/Options)
Or, go to the url "about:config", filter for "tab", and go crazy.
browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground
You prefer the egos of people like John Romero and George Lucas?
Wow, a games industry editor for a games industry magazine says that the games industry is great?
I guess you've never heard of the No Electronic Theft Act?
Basically, the conditions are 1) for gain (including trading for other stuff) or 2) distribute more than $1000 worth of stuff within 180 days --> jail time + fine
Read the article:
Election officials quickly determined the problem was caused by the Unity Software that pulls together votes from five machines tabulating absentee ballots.
In other words, they were feeding absentee ballots to 5 machines, and then the machine that added up those 5 machines' totals overflowed.
No 16 hour time limit, as these are the mail-in votes.
An optical out (SPDIF) from your sound card to your stereo will take care of that. No electricity (only light) = no grounding problems. Of course both your sound card and stereo have to support that, but even $25 sounds cards do these days.
Also when my department opened up the bathroom on my floor to the general company.. poop everywhere!!
Since there's two replies already that don't get it, parent is referring to the September that never ended
Here in the South, we's use y'all.
Yahoo! Wants to Whack Google in Mobile Searching
I tried their new search http://mobile.yahoo.com/search and it asploded my Samsung A500. The first time I loaded the page, the web browser closed. The second time, the phone rebooted! I have reset my phone several times, same results.
Then I read the page in a real browser, and they SMS you a link. That link worked in my phone.
Minor correction: other browsers do pipelining. "network.http.pipelining" in about:config in Mozilla/Firefox.
Whoops! That's what I get for getting replying before lunch..
Cable business licenses could be granted with the stipulation that they service all areas; you don't need a monopoly for that. Speaking of which, I'm glad you admit it's a monopoly.. because the reason I replied was that you wrote:
A monopoly of our own cable, sure. But not a monopoly on service.
Good or bad (I didn't take a side), in most cities, there is a city-mandated monopoly on cable service.
In this context, franchise does not mean the same thing as, say, a McDonald's franchise. Time Warner is the franchisee from the city. There is no small corporation that is franchising from Time Warner.
franchise
Most cities contract with one cable provider and PROHIBIT other providers from laying cable. Thus, a monopoly.
We're not guaranteed cable, true, but that doesn't change the fact that cable is a monopoly in most cities in the US.
So what does "root for" mean down under? The British-American dictionary has failed me, and there doesn't seem to be an Aussie-US (or Aussie-British) one.
It is still illegal in most (all?) states, just very rarely enforced - usually only in divorce cases where one side is being a jerk.
Every state in the US has different laws with regards to vehicles.. it's not so much "exempt" as it is "California doesn't have a law like that", much as France isn't "exempt" from Germany's laws; they're different legal systems, even though they're both part of the EU. Indeed, the US is structured much like the EU is, it's just that over the years the central federal government has taken over many more things with sometimes questionable court decisions and things like they give the states money for highways, but only if they set speed limits the federal goverment likes. There's no reason an individual state couldn't decide to have a 200mph speed limit, except the federal government would stop helping them out with highway funds.
As far as I can tell California has smog/emission laws, but not safety inspections. It's illegal to operate an unsafe vehicle on the road in California (as everywhere in the US), but you're not required to prove the car's safety before getting a license plate, as you do in North Carolina.
If one of those cars were stopped by a policeman, they could be given a ticket, and in an accident the driver would be liable due to negligence. Otherwise, it seems there is no penalty for having a broken-down heap of a car.
It's normally just called "inspection", no special acronym. Check the headlights, emissions, horn, etc.
As an American, I do try to explain my terms when speaking to an international audience (the internet). Of course, I have non-American friends, so I'm quite aware of it. On the occasion that I don't fully explain myself, and someone inquires, I try to give them an explanation instead of a snide answer.
Yes, there are stupid, "the world revolves around me" people in the US, as everywhere. If it seems that the US has more idiots, keep in mind that the US has a population that is 4.8 times the UK's (293,027,57 vs 60,270,708), so it's bound to have 4.8 times the idiots that the UK does.
It would be best if everyone explained their terms, Americans included. Imagine if everyone was able to figure out what you were talking about.. we might actually be able to understand each other. :)
I did Google it:
I finally figured out that "UKMOT" is what you're talking about, but no, it wasn't obvious, even after Googling.
Interestingly, Google UK doesn't even return UKMOT as a result on the first page. Though if you click "Pages from the UK", you get not UKMOT, but this page
With the amount of cross-Atlantic traffic, you could've helped us Yanks (not to mention the non-native English speakers) out with at least the full name .. which, even after reading their FAQ I still don't know what MOT stands for.
You could've also said "annual saftey inspection" in the original post instead of the UK-specific "MOT".
You're obviously trying to express information (by posting), which I applaud; you'll reach many more minds if you make your post self-explanatory, or at least provide a link.
What, pray tell, is an MOT? (Aside from Motorola's stock ticker)
True, but then there's dirty tanks, hoses, etc and also dishonest stations that add impurities (water, etc) to "stretch" the gas
Cars only do three things - speed up, slow down, and turn. In neutral, yes, we've taken away the speeding up option, so you only have 2/3 the control you would have otherwise. However, that's not necessarily stupid; there's not a lot of reasons to speed up when you're already traveling 90mph. Besides, you can always rev your engine back up and then slip into gear.
Now, if the car were to prevent me from jumping into reverse when I was traveling more than, say, 10mph forward.. I would consider that prevention of a "stupid" move, one that you should never make. Going into/out of neutral at high speed, though, isn't necessarily stupid, and thus shouldn't be prevented by the car.