It probably doesn't help that O'Keefe has a known record of filming himself crossing the US border illegally, and then bragging about it publicly - the fact that he's done it while dressed up as Bin Ladin may be an additional factor.
If you have someone who publicly brags that they cross your border illegally, it may make sense to make sure they aren't trying to break any other border related laws, such as smuggling.
More or less the first part only - another poster dug up this link, which should help: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21464
Basically, certification checks that it works on all xboxes, has a certain level of game stability, and obeys rules about naming conventions, accessing gamer profiles, sharing of achievements, and other standards and requirements for the console. For example, load times have a maximum amount of time allowed - exceeding that time is grounds for failing certification.
Microsoft does not QA your game, send you gameplay feedback, or otherwise replace a certification department - that is the responsibility of the developer and/or publisher to front, depending on their contract and relationship.
Vancouver actually had a proposal to do exactly this, as well as to include cell tower coverage and potentially a few other types of data. http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/22/douglas-coupland-created-v-pole-may-take-high-tech-to-the-streets-in-vancouver/
"The device, no larger than a telephone pole, would manage cell signals for multiple carriers, as well as wireless Internet for the surrounding neighbourhood. In-ground pads plugged into the pole would provide inductive charging for parked electric cars. An integrated touch screen would display maps, ads or payment interfaces, and an LED street light would be perched at the top of the pole."
As a FYI, there is no monthly charge to play Neverwinter Nights. There are expansion packs, true, and you can purchase the premium modules, but none of those are required. In addition, there are hundreds of other modules available which are free. If you just wish to play the game online, nothing is required but the game and an account to login with.
Just as an FYI, all of the toolbars and buttons in Opera can be moved, rearranged, or hidden. I have my tabs on the bottom of the page, and have a custom set of buttons on the top of the page.
Rightclick the panel (in this case, where the tabs are), select "Customize" and you can set things where and how you want them:)
In females, one of the X chromosomes becomes a barr body, and the other one is used for things like mitochondria. Because it's random which is used, you can get patches of different chromosomes being used in different areas, giving rise to things to things like calico patterned cats (almost always female), slightly different skin in different areas of the body, and so on..
This still happens actually.. People making maps will add false cul de sacs, for example, to a map. That way, if a competitor copies the map without permission, they can say "you stole our product, and here's how we know..".
I wrote a letter to the record label after I ran into the first CD (Radiohead's Hail to the Thief) that wouldn't play in the player I wanted, and have now stopped buying any CDs from that label (EMI). In fact, only 1 of the computers I tried it in even could read the data files that allowed you to install the audio player. Since said players are only available for windows and some versions of Apple operating systems, and only installable if you have admin on your computer (making it less than ideal in an office environment) I am allowed under Canadian "fair dealing" rights (http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/38266.html#rid- 38379) to copy from audio CD to "a recording medium, regardless of its material form, onto which a sound recording may be reproduced and that is ordinarily used by individual consumers for that purpose..". Ie, a computer hard drive, or another CD. This is similar to the fair use rights in the United States.
Unless everyone writes a letter at the least, then it's only a matter of time before every CD will work only in stereos and on machines which have specific versions of software like Windows.
I should add that the CD in question would play on Windows only if you installed "upgrades" to windows media player... I cancelled that, and am ripping it with a line in feed tonight.
having a newspaper be automatically sent to your single sheet of e-paper sounds neat and all, but what sort of memory do these things have? Can they store the newspaper from 2 weeks ago, for when you're looking for that special article to show someone? Or can they handle multiple different newspapers all sending that day's edition to you, without just overwriting them all with whichever arrives last?
What if you want to make a copy of a classified ad? Can you print it off easily, store it in special memory, or anything similar?
There are more advantages to a real newspaper than just its pervasiveness.
Don't buy 50$ cartridges for each colour you need.. Instead, buy one 60-100$ cheap printer, and replace the whole thing, and get some new ink cartridges in the new printer:D
How feasible would it be to focus though multiple layers of different materials, or though one layer of unknown thickness (eg. snow from an avelanche) to look for people and/or things like shipwrecks?
If they can do that, and have it be portable, the military would likely be interested too. In either case, I can see scientific and medical applications for this.
What happens when it wont read the card?
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I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has has a debit or credit card no longer be able to be read by the machine at the till after a bit of wear and tear. What happens when your cash card with your life savings on it can't be read anymore?
I don't claim to be an expert on viruses or worms by any means, but how could an "infected" mp3 infect the rest of your system, since mp3 files are read, not executed? Wouldn't this require the worm to know when to fire, and to infect files on the new host?
I don't see how this would happen just by reading an mp3, which is my understanding of what winamp and the like do.
Watching them stuff magazines into this baby was a blast, and there was a croud well into the hallway trying to look when I was there.
and by reading that page, you can get an idea of what our weekly department e-mails are like.. it's nice to have VP's with a good sense of humour for once.
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It probably doesn't help that O'Keefe has a known record of filming himself crossing the US border illegally, and then bragging about it publicly - the fact that he's done it while dressed up as Bin Ladin may be an additional factor.
If you have someone who publicly brags that they cross your border illegally, it may make sense to make sure they aren't trying to break any other border related laws, such as smuggling.
More or less the first part only - another poster dug up this link, which should help:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21464
Basically, certification checks that it works on all xboxes, has a certain level of game stability, and obeys rules about naming conventions, accessing gamer profiles, sharing of achievements, and other standards and requirements for the console. For example, load times have a maximum amount of time allowed - exceeding that time is grounds for failing certification.
Microsoft does not QA your game, send you gameplay feedback, or otherwise replace a certification department - that is the responsibility of the developer and/or publisher to front, depending on their contract and relationship.
Vancouver actually had a proposal to do exactly this, as well as to include cell tower coverage and potentially a few other types of data.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/22/douglas-coupland-created-v-pole-may-take-high-tech-to-the-streets-in-vancouver/
"The device, no larger than a telephone pole, would manage cell signals for multiple carriers, as well as wireless Internet for the surrounding neighbourhood. In-ground pads plugged into the pole would provide inductive charging for parked electric cars. An integrated touch screen would display maps, ads or payment interfaces, and an LED street light would be perched at the top of the pole."
As a FYI, there is no monthly charge to play Neverwinter Nights. There are expansion packs, true, and you can purchase the premium modules, but none of those are required. In addition, there are hundreds of other modules available which are free. If you just wish to play the game online, nothing is required but the game and an account to login with.
Just as an FYI, all of the toolbars and buttons in Opera can be moved, rearranged, or hidden. I have my tabs on the bottom of the page, and have a custom set of buttons on the top of the page.
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Rightclick the panel (in this case, where the tabs are), select "Customize" and you can set things where and how you want them
didn't I call in sick today?
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It's sitting at home installed, and I'm sitting here at work
You can also bake pumpkin, like a normal squash, and eat it that way. Adding a bit of brown sugar to it can work well if you do this.
As we all (?) know, power is equal to work over time.
It is also known that time is money, and that knowledge is power.
With some basic substitution, we get knowledge = work/money.
Rearranging, we get:
time = work/knowledge.
Therefore, the less you know, the more money you will make, regardless of how much work you get done.
In females, one of the X chromosomes becomes a barr body, and the other one is used for things like mitochondria. Because it's random which is used, you can get patches of different chromosomes being used in different areas, giving rise to things to things like calico patterned cats (almost always female), slightly different skin in different areas of the body, and so on..
(I think.. I'm not a biologist)
This still happens actually.. People making maps will add false cul de sacs, for example, to a map. That way, if a competitor copies the map without permission, they can say "you stole our product, and here's how we know..".
I believe so, yeah, similar to how Atari is listed in NWN (IIRC).
The Bladur's gate series and Neverwinter Nights were all made by Bioware, not by Black Isle games.
I wrote a letter to the record label after I ran into the first CD (Radiohead's Hail to the Thief) that wouldn't play in the player I wanted, and have now stopped buying any CDs from that label (EMI). In fact, only 1 of the computers I tried it in even could read the data files that allowed you to install the audio player. Since said players are only available for windows and some versions of Apple operating systems, and only installable if you have admin on your computer (making it less than ideal in an office environment) I am allowed under Canadian "fair dealing" rights (http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/38266.html#rid- 38379) to copy from audio CD to "a recording medium, regardless of its material form, onto which a sound recording may be reproduced and that is ordinarily used by individual consumers for that purpose..". Ie, a computer hard drive, or another CD. This is similar to the fair use rights in the United States.
Unless everyone writes a letter at the least, then it's only a matter of time before every CD will work only in stereos and on machines which have specific versions of software like Windows.
I should add that the CD in question would play on Windows only if you installed "upgrades" to windows media player... I cancelled that, and am ripping it with a line in feed tonight.
Satellites and undersea cables don't occur naturally. Someone has to pay for them to be shot up in the air, or laid across undersea trenches.
Not to mention the stringing of all those copper and fiberoptic phonelines that connect every house together..
having a newspaper be automatically sent to your single sheet of e-paper sounds neat and all, but what sort of memory do these things have? Can they store the newspaper from 2 weeks ago, for when you're looking for that special article to show someone? Or can they handle multiple different newspapers all sending that day's edition to you, without just overwriting them all with whichever arrives last?
What if you want to make a copy of a classified ad? Can you print it off easily, store it in special memory, or anything similar?
There are more advantages to a real newspaper than just its pervasiveness.
I've had a Laserjet 6L since around 1998, and haven't had so much as a hiccup with it. As far as I'm concerned, it's a fine printer for home use.
Remember this?
Don't buy 50$ cartridges for each colour you need.. Instead, buy one 60-100$ cheap printer, and replace the whole thing, and get some new ink cartridges in the new printer :D
I'm thinking for search and rescue puposes..
How feasible would it be to focus though multiple layers of different materials, or though one layer of unknown thickness (eg. snow from an avelanche) to look for people and/or things like shipwrecks?
If they can do that, and have it be portable, the military would likely be interested too. In either case, I can see scientific and medical applications for this.
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has has a debit or credit card no longer be able to be read by the machine at the till after a bit of wear and tear. What happens when your cash card with your life savings on it can't be read anymore?
I don't claim to be an expert on viruses or worms by any means, but how could an "infected" mp3 infect the rest of your system, since mp3 files are read, not executed? Wouldn't this require the worm to know when to fire, and to infect files on the new host?
I don't see how this would happen just by reading an mp3, which is my understanding of what winamp and the like do.
Watching them stuff magazines into this baby was a blast, and there was a croud well into the hallway trying to look when I was there.
and by reading that page, you can get an idea of what our weekly department e-mails are like.. it's nice to have VP's with a good sense of humour for once.
here I thought it was going to be the origional version of the King's Quest games.. the one where his nose was a yellow lego block..
does anyone know if that earlier graphical version is being remade anywhere?
MayaPLE is basically the same as Maya, but with some things like watermarks over renders added.
For learning patches, however, (or maya in general0 it's superb.
As for exporting to games, I don't believe it handles that natively, like most modelling programs. You can usually find exporters however.
GMAX is slowly but surely gaining in popularity from what I've seen..
There's some large fees to get your game supported for it though, I believe.
GMAX and MayaPLE are great though. Between those and milkshape, anyone can do 3D modelling now.