You know, coming out of RotS, I commented to my hetero life mate that there was a metric arseload of story to be told between old and new trilogies. It wouldn't surprise me a bit to see this happen, and I don't know why I didn't think of it.
I was about to mention this as well. considering the number of Telemarketers that refer me to this when I ask them to remove me, it seems like a reasonably well-respected list in Canada. Might just be something to do with our politeness and whatnot.
as well, if you repeatedly get calls from marketters that you've requested not to call you (either by talking to them, or by getting on the list), you can report them to your local telephone company, and let them know about it.
We tried the Pure Energy batteries at work here, and found them to be crap. Wouldn't power a bloody digital camera for a single shot.
However, the Energizer NiMH are boss! We picked up a couple of sets of 1850 mAh AAs, and they just seem to go forever. And they were pretty cheap, at Wal*Mart, too... cost about CDN$50 for 8 batteries and a charger.
hear hear! I've become the biggest advocate for The Hacker's Diet for a couple of years now. I managed to drop 20+ pounds fairly painlessly, and keep it off. The tools that he provides for management of your weight during and afterwards are quite useful as well, although I'd like to see something web based for easier use.
this in itself might not be commercially viable, but it makes an interesting case study in applications of their Sensetable, which this is based on. They've demonstrated the use of this tool in the demonstration of molecular interactions, as well as tracking business methods. it's seriously interesting HCI stuff.
I read the usenet posting first, which said that "[the] second rover mission, bound for a different site on Mars, will launch as soon as June 25". (sci.space.news, Message-id: bbll9j$1kb$1@nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov).
Should have double checked my wording before hitting submit...
Way back when I was in my final year of university, we had a group project to develop an online tutorial for a Computer Science concept. We included in this a quiz at the end. The questions were input from a remote terminal, and people on other remote terminals took the test. This was in early 1998, almost a year before this patent was filed. Here's the location of one of the quizzes:
Mind you, this is a CANADIAN university, so maybe this doesn't count? Or, because we didn't force people to pay for this, it doesn't fall under the scope of the patent? Anyhow, someone with knowledge of how to report patent abuses such as this could hopefully use this as prior art.
His tuition goes toward paying for that "college's private network" so he EVERY RIGHT to use it.
Actually, the network was likely paid for by government and research grants. His tutition likely didn't pay for much of it at all. Any usage that is not research or university-business related could probably be found to be in violation of policy.
shane.
Hear, hear! Kilmer could have pulled off a believe Bruce Wayne, I think, if he had a good script, but CLooney just was NOT the right fit for Batman. smiled too much, I think.
Your statement is incorrect. According to Part 2 (Definitions), Section A:
"blank audio recording medium" means
(a) a recording medium, regardless of its material form, onto which a sound recording may be reproduced, that is of a kind ordinarily used by individual consumers for that purpose and on which no sounds have ever been fixed, including
...
(ii) recordable compact discs (CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R
Audio, CD-RW Audio or any other type of recordable or rewritable compact disc) of 100 megabytes or more of storage capacity;
Also included in the list are 40+ minute cassette tapes, MiniDiscs, Removable Electronic Memory cards, Recordable Digital Versatile Discs, and non-removable memory cards and hard drives in MP3 players.
It has gotten so bad that I've started posting my SDs to the newsgroup. I've tried savescumming, I've nearly cried when my super-duper level 24 samurai was killed by disease in Hell, I've hacked the source code to give my wizards a +6 quarterstaff and Cloak of MR. Every day I tell myself, "I'm not going to play today". And every day I fire up those little ASCII characters for my fix. It's not NetHack, it's NetCrack. And I love it.
I stopped using AltaVista once the load time for the front page got over a few seconds.
I can almost trace the commercialization of the web through my progression of search engine choices:
'96-'97: Lycos. Left after it
started getting too crowded on the
front page, and they put that terrible
animated gif on the front page, BEFORE
they would even let you use the search
engine.
'97-98: metacrawler. Left shortly
after it sold out, and became a crappy
commercial portal, instead of the cool
fast loading page it was when it was
an academic research project.
'98-99: altavista. Left when
everyone else did.
'99-: google and open directory
project.
So does anyone have any idea what the original metacrawler address was? I thought that when they sold out, they researchers there were working on some sort of fantabulous search technology that was going to revolutionize things, but I haven't got a clue what university it was originally hosted at...
I remember back in the day, even on a 486, games that were written for slower machines would run to fast to be playable. Now that your computer will be many times faster than a 486, the game will also be many times faster and definitly not usable at all.
Not so! The MoSlo utility will slow down games quite handily. Depending on what you read, you may or may not be able to use it under windows, and it might not be as effective on a GHz screamer as it was on a 486. But it may work, and might be useful to check out.
I've thought about pulling my old 486 out of mothballs, rebuilding it, and slapping DOS 6.22 on it just to play things like Wing Commander and Space Hulk on it. A full 486 system wouldn't cost much more than chump change, and coupled with a KVM switch, it likely wouldn't take up all that much space.
Of course, the KVM would cost more than the box itself, so an elcheapo serial mouse and keyboard could replace it. Switching a monitor to it wouldn't be any more annoying than having to reboot, I would think.
Data Structures and Software Development in an Object Oriented Domain Eiffel Edition is a good book, and recently published. The authors used a pre-editted version on us in our data structures and algorithms class a few years ago. It gave a good introduction to OO programming, and did a good job at extending the principles that we had learned in our first year classes.
I also know that they are working on a Java version of the book, that should be out Real Soon.
Please note that the link I've given is to a Canadian bookseller, so it's aboot 30 bucks less for you yanks...:)
I'd have to disagree. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a couple of p166s w/ 64MB of ram here at work, and it's responsive. They're running as kiosks, with FVWM2 and Java, talking to another java server program across a very cluttered network. Java's a little sluggish starting up (in the neighborhood of 45 seconds), but I certainly didn't/don't have the troubles that you describe. It sounds like you just got unlucky. Darn sunspots.:)
I have the same opinion of Kevin J. Anderson. I had trouble reading his Star Wars novels and comic books that were based on previously developed characters. They all felt like poor redefinitions of something that was already well defined. I felt the same way about the XFiles stuff of his that I read.
That being said, I did enjoy his work that contained original characters, where he wasn't trying to remold their personalities.
I currently use the Royal Bank of Canada for my online banking needs. My wife uses is from our Windows box at home using IE and Netscape, and I use it from my Linux box at work using Netscape, both perfectly fine.
Now, whether or not it will work with a text-based browser I don't know... I suppose that so long as your browser can make HTTPS connections you would be fine, as they don't appear to use javascript.
The fee is a little high; something like CDN$4 per month, plus there might be some transaction fees. But, if you sign up for telephone banking, you also get the online banking included, I believe.
I remember a lot of books that have been mentioned here from my Dad's bookshelf. I was Pretty much weaned on Clarke, Heinlein, and Asimov, so I would definately recommend them. I also liked anything that Douglas Adams wrote - Dirk Gently, and the Hitchhiker's "trilogy".
There were a couple of others, though, that I remembered reading. Tom Corbett: Stand By For Mars!, authored by Carey Rockwell was a book that I enjoyed. Apparantly, it is based on a Heinlein character from a short story. It was a bit pulpy (I remember a the Mercury Ball Soccer match...:) ), but it was a good adventure novel for a young person. Might be a little young for a 13 year-old, but I remember reading it two or three other times through my teenage years and still enjoying it.
I also remember liking Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor. I can't remember if I read this in my first year of university or in high school, but I know that several of my friends read it in their teenage years and really enjoyed it. (Plus, the TV series is hilarious!)
My first post... I hope that this is helpful or informative!
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You know, coming out of RotS, I commented to my hetero life mate that there was a metric arseload of story to be told between old and new trilogies. It wouldn't surprise me a bit to see this happen, and I don't know why I didn't think of it.
I was about to mention this as well. considering the number of Telemarketers that refer me to this when I ask them to remove me, it seems like a reasonably well-respected list in Canada. Might just be something to do with our politeness and whatnot.
as well, if you repeatedly get calls from marketters that you've requested not to call you (either by talking to them, or by getting on the list), you can report them to your local telephone company, and let them know about it.
We tried the Pure Energy batteries at work here, and found them to be crap. Wouldn't power a bloody digital camera for a single shot. However, the Energizer NiMH are boss! We picked up a couple of sets of 1850 mAh AAs, and they just seem to go forever. And they were pretty cheap, at Wal*Mart, too... cost about CDN$50 for 8 batteries and a charger.
hear hear! I've become the biggest advocate for The Hacker's Diet for a couple of years now. I managed to drop 20+ pounds fairly painlessly, and keep it off. The tools that he provides for management of your weight during and afterwards are quite useful as well, although I'd like to see something web based for easier use.
this in itself might not be commercially viable, but it makes an interesting case study in applications of their Sensetable, which this is based on. They've demonstrated the use of this tool in the demonstration of molecular interactions, as well as tracking business methods. it's seriously interesting HCI stuff.
I read the usenet posting first, which said that "[the] second rover mission, bound for a different site on Mars, will launch as soon as June 25". (sci.space.news, Message-id: bbll9j$1kb$1@nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov).
Should have double checked my wording before hitting submit...
And for Jebus' sake, don't be so freakin' self conscious! You're perfectly fine the way you are.
Mind you, this is a CANADIAN university, so maybe this doesn't count? Or, because we didn't force people to pay for this, it doesn't fall under the scope of the patent? Anyhow, someone with knowledge of how to report patent abuses such as this could hopefully use this as prior art.
Actually, the network was likely paid for by government and research grants. His tutition likely didn't pay for much of it at all. Any usage that is not research or university-business related could probably be found to be in violation of policy. shane.
Hear, hear! Kilmer could have pulled off a believe Bruce Wayne, I think, if he had a good script, but CLooney just was NOT the right fit for Batman. smiled too much, I think.
Also included in the list are 40+ minute cassette tapes, MiniDiscs, Removable Electronic Memory cards, Recordable Digital Versatile Discs, and non-removable memory cards and hard drives in MP3 players.
So, this levy DOES include all CD-R material.
shane.
It has gotten so bad that I've started posting my SDs to the newsgroup. I've tried savescumming, I've nearly cried when my super-duper level 24 samurai was killed by disease in Hell, I've hacked the source code to give my wizards a +6 quarterstaff and Cloak of MR. Every day I tell myself, "I'm not going to play today". And every day I fire up those little ASCII characters for my fix. It's not NetHack, it's NetCrack. And I love it.
- shane.
So does anyone have any idea what the original metacrawler address was? I thought that when they sold out, they researchers there were working on some sort of fantabulous search technology that was going to revolutionize things, but I haven't got a clue what university it was originally hosted at...
ssd.
Of course, the KVM would cost more than the box itself, so an elcheapo serial mouse and keyboard could replace it. Switching a monitor to it wouldn't be any more annoying than having to reboot, I would think.
I also know that they are working on a Java version of the book, that should be out Real Soon.
Please note that the link I've given is to a Canadian bookseller, so it's aboot 30 bucks less for you yanks... :)
I'd have to disagree. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a couple of p166s w/ 64MB of ram here at work, and it's responsive. They're running as kiosks, with FVWM2 and Java, talking to another java server program across a very cluttered network. Java's a little sluggish starting up (in the neighborhood of 45 seconds), but I certainly didn't/don't have the troubles that you describe. It sounds like you just got unlucky. Darn sunspots. :)
s.
I have the same opinion of Kevin J. Anderson. I had trouble reading his Star Wars novels and comic books that were based on previously developed characters. They all felt like poor redefinitions of something that was already well defined. I felt the same way about the XFiles stuff of his that I read.
That being said, I did enjoy his work that contained original characters, where he wasn't trying to remold their personalities.
shaniber.
Now, whether or not it will work with a text-based browser I don't know... I suppose that so long as your browser can make HTTPS connections you would be fine, as they don't appear to use javascript.
The fee is a little high; something like CDN$4 per month, plus there might be some transaction fees. But, if you sign up for telephone banking, you also get the online banking included, I believe.
shane.
I remember a lot of books that have been mentioned here from my Dad's bookshelf. I was Pretty much weaned on Clarke, Heinlein, and Asimov, so I would definately recommend them. I also liked anything that Douglas Adams wrote - Dirk Gently, and the Hitchhiker's "trilogy".
:) ), but it was a good adventure novel for a young person. Might be a little young for a 13 year-old, but I remember reading it two or three other times through my teenage years and still enjoying it.
There were a couple of others, though, that I remembered reading. Tom Corbett: Stand By For Mars!, authored by Carey Rockwell was a book that I enjoyed. Apparantly, it is based on a Heinlein character from a short story. It was a bit pulpy (I remember a the Mercury Ball Soccer match...
I also remember liking Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor. I can't remember if I read this in my first year of university or in high school, but I know that several of my friends read it in their teenage years and really enjoyed it. (Plus, the TV series is hilarious!)
My first post... I hope that this is helpful or informative!
shane doucette.