The power management problems appear to have been fixed with Os X 10.0.4. (BTW is version X 10.0.4 a bit redundant?)
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I just skimmed the site and it looks pretty good (beer and wine, delivered, is a plus), but there's no President's Choice stuff! I really miss that in the States. Some of the local stores have a small selection of the PC line, but it's nothing like going to a big Loblaws.
Does Loblaws have a delivery service yet? Do they still have their own bank?
Homeruns is bleeding red ink but has managed to outlast Webvan and Peapod in the Boston area by staying private during the meltdown. There's a reasonably up-to-date article from Boston.com here.
I seem to remember them increasing their delivery charges a while ago, and they're still struggling, but they're not out of business yet.
Allen, I remember you writing games and articles for the Space Gamer a while ago, but didn't Steve end up with The Fantasy Trip? I thought it evolved into GURPs, and Space Gamer and Fantasy Gamer had articles about it.
My memory could be faulty, because my magazine collection has been archived. The only ones I keep around are the copies with my articles in them:)
There won't be any nazis. Speilberg has said he couldn't direct 'comic book' nazis after making "Schindler's List". He finally got a clue that these were evil SOBs, not cartoon character bad guys.
So maybe it could be set post-war, in the late 40's; that would only make in ten years or so after the first three movies.
I'm not suprised that you can dual-boot between XP and Win 2K; it's probably on the Windows boot menu. I just wonder what happens if it sees a completely foreign partion or boot manager (like LILO or Boot Magic). I just have this horrible vision of XP starting up and flashing a message saying, "Virus software detected, can not continue."
Minor correction, they promised a fancy-pants OS for the PS/2 computer. Of course the PS/2s shipped months before Os/2 was ready, and that was only the command line version. The GUI version didn't ship until over a year later.
The joke back then was "PS/2: yesterday's hardware today. OS/2: yesterday's software tomorrow."
There are a lot of very large, very powerful, market dominating European companies that US companies could compete against better if they were only legislatively neutered.
GM and Ford (just two off the top of my head) seem to have no problem competing in Europe. And which "very large, very powerful, market dominating" European software companies is Microsoft competing with?
Now that Microsoft has gotten the U.S. Dept. of Justice to roll over and play dead, I think the EU may be our only hope for stopping Bill and the Gang in their tracks.
The same way the EU could stop General Electric and Honeywell (two U.S. companies) from merging. Check out the cnnfn story.
From the article: "The European Union Tuesday officially rejected General Electric Co.'s planned $42 billion acquisition of Honeywell International Inc., the first time a proposed merger between two U.S. companies has been blocked solely by European regulators."
"Seppo", the derivation of which is kind of amusing but a little difficult to explain
Maybe, but I'll give it a try. Aussies use Cockney rhyming slang, where you rhyme the word you're encoding with a two-letter phrase, and then throw out the rhyming word, making it nonsense to the un-initiated. The most common example is 'china' == 'china plate' == 'mate'. eg. "How are you, my old china?"
Seppo is 'Septic Tank' to rhyme with 'Yank'.
BTW, to a non-USAian, all U.S. citizens are 'Yanks', as Robert pointed out.
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I played Assassin about 20 years ago at college, using the orignal rulebook from Steve Jackson Games. By the third game we had almost the entire college (150 people) playing. Total mayhem and paranoia for about a week. Of course, back then a banana with a lethal weapon. You could stab or shoot someone with it.
I've still got my Intertek Uzi somewhere, but the damn things kept breaking down, and you had to take them apart to fix them. I had one of the battery operated pistols, too.
The reason toy guns look fake is a federal law. Some kid pulled a toy gun on a guy a few years ago, and the guy shot him with a real gun. With the screwed-up gun laws in this country they decided to ban toy guns, the work-around being toy guns that look like toys. If you want something that looks like a real gun, get an airsoft pellet gun, but those have to have bright orange paint on the barrel.
My mom uses her WWII id number. She says she learned it when she was five and will never forget it. I think it's an 8 or 9 digit number, so it would take a little time to crack.
Hate to break the news to you, but Wingspan is dead. Check the article here. I closed my account with them as soon as they implemented service fees, and their credit card gets very bad reviews on Gomez.
Any techies in Washington State or Oregon should see if their company has an agreement with First Tech Credit Union. Very nice credit union; I've never had any problems with them.
Sorry, and I appreciate your sentiment, but after living in this country for 2+ years I have to say that you guys do a damn good job of representing yourselves as a nation of consumers.
Everything in this country appears, on first impression, to be consumer-oriented. You've got a lot of work ahead of you if you want to change that.
I don't think that's quite right because the scale is logarithmic, i.e. 20 db is 100 times as loud as 10db. I'm not sure how bels and decibels relate; it does make sense that 10 decibels equals 1 bel, I'm just not sure how the log factor effects it.
> Can I get a linux box to access the internet through the Windows network?
You don't need to use Samba to get IP Routing, you just need to turn on IP sharing on the Windows box, and configure the Linux box accordingly.
I've got IP routing working between a Windows box with a cable modem and a Mac. Took about fifteen minutes to set up.
I looked on the website and the thing is self-progamming. Press the Select key twice, press the function key you want to program, enter the keystrokes, press Select again to finish.
OTH, with 142 keys the damn thing is a battleship! It's bigger than the old IBM 3270 keyboards I had to work on. Definitely not for the original poster.
I'm not so sure. If that were true, they'd be removing the auto-registration feature too, because there's been a bigger stink about that lately than about SmartTags.
Maybe they just couldn't get them wokring properly, or maybe they were afraid of the legal ramifications.
Here's the goofiest example I've come across, somebody wants to ban Minesweeper from all versions of Windows because it offends land mine victims. WTF? The object of the game is to mark mines and not get blown up. It's not like the game shows people's body parts flying off in all directions if you lose.
Some people have far too much time on their hands.
Could it be that the reason they're doing the FreeBSD port is Mac OS X? Assuming that OS X is going to be the most widely distributed *NIX variant on the planet, they're going after the biggest market share? This lets them leverage the whole.NET stuff onto other platforms, starting the biggest platform after Windows.
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Exactly. Remember NTSC stands for Never Twice (the) Same Color.
The power management problems appear to have been fixed with Os X 10.0.4. (BTW is version X 10.0.4 a bit redundant?)
Does Loblaws have a delivery service yet? Do they still have their own bank?
I seem to remember them increasing their delivery charges a while ago, and they're still struggling, but they're not out of business yet.
My memory could be faulty, because my magazine collection has been archived. The only ones I keep around are the copies with my articles in them :)
Take a look at the fan site thefirsttwins.com for some insight into the Jenna Bush phenomenon. Interesting, but a little twisted.
So maybe it could be set post-war, in the late 40's; that would only make in ten years or so after the first three movies.
I'm not suprised that you can dual-boot between XP and Win 2K; it's probably on the Windows boot menu. I just wonder what happens if it sees a completely foreign partion or boot manager (like LILO or Boot Magic). I just have this horrible vision of XP starting up and flashing a message saying, "Virus software detected, can not continue."
The joke back then was "PS/2: yesterday's hardware today. OS/2: yesterday's software tomorrow."
Are you sure that will work? Will XP work on a partioned drive or will the product activation freak out and lock up your system.
I'm serious. Have any beta-testers tried this?
GM and Ford (just two off the top of my head) seem to have no problem competing in Europe. And which "very large, very powerful, market dominating" European software companies is Microsoft competing with?
Now that Microsoft has gotten the U.S. Dept. of Justice to roll over and play dead, I think the EU may be our only hope for stopping Bill and the Gang in their tracks.
From the article: "The European Union Tuesday officially rejected General Electric Co.'s planned $42 billion acquisition of Honeywell International Inc., the first time a proposed merger between two U.S. companies has been blocked solely by European regulators."
Maybe, but I'll give it a try. Aussies use Cockney rhyming slang, where you rhyme the word you're encoding with a two-letter phrase, and then throw out the rhyming word, making it nonsense to the un-initiated. The most common example is 'china' == 'china plate' == 'mate'. eg. "How are you, my old china?"
Seppo is 'Septic Tank' to rhyme with 'Yank'.
BTW, to a non-USAian, all U.S. citizens are 'Yanks', as Robert pointed out.
I've still got my Intertek Uzi somewhere, but the damn things kept breaking down, and you had to take them apart to fix them. I had one of the battery operated pistols, too.
The reason toy guns look fake is a federal law. Some kid pulled a toy gun on a guy a few years ago, and the guy shot him with a real gun. With the screwed-up gun laws in this country they decided to ban toy guns, the work-around being toy guns that look like toys. If you want something that looks like a real gun, get an airsoft pellet gun, but those have to have bright orange paint on the barrel.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
My mom uses her WWII id number. She says she learned it when she was five and will never forget it. I think it's an 8 or 9 digit number, so it would take a little time to crack.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Any techies in Washington State or Oregon should see if their company has an agreement with First Tech Credit Union. Very nice credit union; I've never had any problems with them.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Everything in this country appears, on first impression, to be consumer-oriented. You've got a lot of work ahead of you if you want to change that.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
I don't think that's quite right because the scale is logarithmic, i.e. 20 db is 100 times as loud as 10db. I'm not sure how bels and decibels relate; it does make sense that 10 decibels equals 1 bel, I'm just not sure how the log factor effects it.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
I've got IP routing working between a Windows box with a cable modem and a Mac. Took about fifteen minutes to set up.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
OTH, with 142 keys the damn thing is a battleship! It's bigger than the old IBM 3270 keyboards I had to work on. Definitely not for the original poster.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Maybe they just couldn't get them wokring properly, or maybe they were afraid of the legal ramifications.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
I don't know that much about Apache, but it looks pretty simple to use.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
And actually I was refering to Interix, the Windows 2000 product that does full UNIX emulation, and costs $99.95.
IMHO, that's the real smoking gun.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Some people have far too much time on their hands.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Could it be that the reason they're doing the FreeBSD port is Mac OS X? Assuming that OS X is going to be the most widely distributed *NIX variant on the planet, they're going after the biggest market share? This lets them leverage the whole .NET stuff onto other platforms, starting the biggest platform after Windows.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"