And Dell has always been good to us with warranty returns. I just plug in their Diagnostic Disk and run the Diagnostic. When the error code pops up, I call them and tell them what the error code is, and they ship us a new part. If I can't boot to the disk, I read them the light codes on the back or front of the machine. Before the era of Diagnostic Disks, we had a couple of problems here and there, but lately, Dell has been absolutely fantastic. I can't say any bad things about their warranty repair service with respect to Linux.
It might help that I work at one of the biggest universities in the country, but I really don't know.
Just buy a player and CDs and rip the music yourself. You have your CDs as a backup and you can rip them to whatever preferred format you want. It may be more expensive than most of the other models, but I have a format I can use to shift into any other format anytime I want.
Of course it's going to be cancelled, Galactica on Sci-Fi and the rest of the Sci-Fi Friday is getting as good or better ratings than it is, and I believe that UPN has a wider distribution than Sci-Fi does. I've read that Galactica had a 2.5 rating last week, which is higher than the week before. It's weird seeing Galactica succeed and a Trek franchise fail, but Galactica is just That Damn Good. You Galactica haters can scoff now, but wait until the last few episodes, Galactica gets very good. On par with Babylon 5 at its prime, I'd say.
What a despicable act. If I were in that area of the country, I wouldn't vote for that guy no matter what...he's definitely missing some morality genes someplace. Dummy.
It's really simple, eat better, and work out, and you'll lose weight. Instead of the ladder he used, I used to bike 11 miles a day. Now I run about 35 miles a week. I lose weight slowly and steadily on this plan, about 3.5 lbs a month or so. Just fine for me. I've never been drastically overweight, though, I'm going from 6' 185 lbs to 6' whatever makes me look better. Right now, that seems to be 170, and I'm not pushing it.
The Steven Erikson books are the first four books of a ten book series titled Malazan, Books of the Fallen. The books are unavailable in the US due to no publishers wanting to pickup the series because of its over complexity (according to the author). They are available from www.amazon.ca, or www.chapters.ca, or your favorite British bookstore.
There are four books (in order) Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, and House of Chains. The books are an epic work, like Jordan and Martin, and share a grittiness with Glen Cook, who wrote a series about a group of mercenaries in a fantasy world. Unlike Jordan, the author appears to have a firm grasp on ending a series, and wants to limit the series to ten books.
Like George R. R. Martin, but unlike Jordan, there are no heroes, just people trying to make their way in an immoral and uncaring world. The first two books do a pretty good job of standing alone (you could almost read them interchangeably), but optimally, they should be read in order.
The plots in the books are extremely complex. I believe it isn't until Book 3 that readers won't get a solid idea of what the over arching plot of the series is going to be. Because of this, it can be hard going through the first book because a reader is thrown in to the world cold, into the middle of a largish battle, and the reader is forced to sink or swim with little explanation. Once you get to the second and third books, I felt I had a very good handle of what was going on around me, and surprises abound. Like George R R Martin, Erikson will kill characters that the reader empathizes with, to great effect.
I enjoy this series greatly, and I don't think that there is much better than this in terms of epic fantasy.
However, how many of these downloads are from second and third world countries? As an avid gamer, I have seen more than my share of folks from other countries post to gamer lists asking for pdf's of this d20 book or that one because they can't afford to buy the book itself. (How they got enough to buy a puter is a whole nother story.) I submit to you that a significant number of those DLs came from some non-US country, perhaps more than half! For some people, the statement that a CD is overpriced is very true. I don't believe its a logical excuse to pirate, but somehow they have the means to do so.
BATSE (Burst and Transient Source Experiment) on the Gamma Ray Observatory was the best thing we had for burst detection currently in orbit. It wasn't very good at locating individual bursts, but it was great at observing bursts nearly across the sky. BATSE's original task was to determine the statistical distribution of bursts across the sky, to determine whether or not bursts were galactic, inter solar system, or cosmological in origin. BATSE also could get great spectral resolution of a burst.
When it was determined beyond a statistical doubt that bursts were cosmological, work turned to locating an individual source. BATSE was still invaluable, for the aforementioned all-sky capability made BATSE a great early warning device to allow viewers on the ground opportunities to detect burst sources, if possible.
Of course, GRO and BATSE are gone, spread out over the Pacific. It's extremely disappointing to me that such a robust tool like BATSE was sunk for such a poor excuse, and with no other satellite with it's abilities available to back it up. It's a goddamn shame.
To be sure..it's the parents of the kids who died who are suing the whole planet. Not the parents of the boy (who are in the suit, too). Maybe the parents were irresponsible, and should have taught their children duck faster when they hear gunshots. *tsk* *tsk* *tsk*
It's still despicable. I know people who do all three, and aren't complete psychopaths.
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And Dell has always been good to us with warranty returns. I just plug in their Diagnostic Disk and run the Diagnostic. When the error code pops up, I call them and tell them what the error code is, and they ship us a new part. If I can't boot to the disk, I read them the light codes on the back or front of the machine. Before the era of Diagnostic Disks, we had a couple of problems here and there, but lately, Dell has been absolutely fantastic. I can't say any bad things about their warranty repair service with respect to Linux.
It might help that I work at one of the biggest universities in the country, but I really don't know.
Just buy a player and CDs and rip the music yourself. You have your CDs as a backup and you can rip them to whatever preferred format you want. It may be more expensive than most of the other models, but I have a format I can use to shift into any other format anytime I want.
Also, the new iPods don't include a Firewire cable, only USB 2.0 That's a big change, the 4G 20GB I got last summer had both USB 2.0 and Firewire.
Of course it's going to be cancelled, Galactica on Sci-Fi and the rest of the Sci-Fi Friday is getting as good or better ratings than it is, and I believe that UPN has a wider distribution than Sci-Fi does. I've read that Galactica had a 2.5 rating last week, which is higher than the week before. It's weird seeing Galactica succeed and a Trek franchise fail, but Galactica is just That Damn Good. You Galactica haters can scoff now, but wait until the last few episodes, Galactica gets very good. On par with Babylon 5 at its prime, I'd say.
What a despicable act. If I were in that area of the country, I wouldn't vote for that guy no matter what...he's definitely missing some morality genes someplace. Dummy.
They skipped Yottabyte, and went right to Zetabyte!
Fantastic! I want one!
It's really simple, eat better, and work out, and you'll lose weight. Instead of the ladder he used, I used to bike 11 miles a day. Now I run about 35 miles a week. I lose weight slowly and steadily on this plan, about 3.5 lbs a month or so. Just fine for me. I've never been drastically overweight, though, I'm going from 6' 185 lbs to 6' whatever makes me look better. Right now, that seems to be 170, and I'm not pushing it.
There are four books (in order) Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, and House of Chains. The books are an epic work, like Jordan and Martin, and share a grittiness with Glen Cook, who wrote a series about a group of mercenaries in a fantasy world. Unlike Jordan, the author appears to have a firm grasp on ending a series, and wants to limit the series to ten books.
Like George R. R. Martin, but unlike Jordan, there are no heroes, just people trying to make their way in an immoral and uncaring world. The first two books do a pretty good job of standing alone (you could almost read them interchangeably), but optimally, they should be read in order.
The plots in the books are extremely complex. I believe it isn't until Book 3 that readers won't get a solid idea of what the over arching plot of the series is going to be. Because of this, it can be hard going through the first book because a reader is thrown in to the world cold, into the middle of a largish battle, and the reader is forced to sink or swim with little explanation. Once you get to the second and third books, I felt I had a very good handle of what was going on around me, and surprises abound. Like George R R Martin, Erikson will kill characters that the reader empathizes with, to great effect.
I enjoy this series greatly, and I don't think that there is much better than this in terms of epic fantasy.
However, how many of these downloads are from second and third world countries? As an avid gamer, I have seen more than my share of folks from other countries post to gamer lists asking for pdf's of this d20 book or that one because they can't afford to buy the book itself. (How they got enough to buy a puter is a whole nother story.) I submit to you that a significant number of those DLs came from some non-US country, perhaps more than half! For some people, the statement that a CD is overpriced is very true. I don't believe its a logical excuse to pirate, but somehow they have the means to do so.
on the Gamma Ray Observatory was the best thing we had for burst detection currently in orbit. It wasn't very good at locating individual bursts, but it was great at observing bursts nearly across the sky. BATSE's original task was to determine the statistical distribution of bursts across the sky, to determine whether or not bursts were galactic, inter solar system, or cosmological in origin. BATSE also could get great spectral resolution of a burst.
When it was determined beyond a statistical doubt that bursts were cosmological, work turned to locating an individual source. BATSE was still invaluable, for the aforementioned all-sky capability made BATSE a great early warning device to allow viewers on the ground opportunities to detect burst sources, if possible.
Of course, GRO and BATSE are gone, spread out over the Pacific. It's extremely disappointing to me that such a robust tool like BATSE was sunk for such a poor excuse, and with no other satellite with it's abilities available to back it up. It's a goddamn shame.
It's still despicable. I know people who do all three, and aren't complete psychopaths.