However, when the wife of the creator, who has essentially inherited the mantel, delivers a speech as a lesson to a child, in a series already known for being preachy, my gut tells me she meant this one.
The US may have left England when the colonists were taxed without representation ..
The US may have left England a while ago, but a great many of us left Europe far more recently. My father got the hell out of Italy around 1965.
His home town only had running water on alternate days, because the water supply had been blown in in WWII and wasn't fixed yet. Last time I visited family in the 80s, it still hadn't been fixed.
But I digress. The point is, we aren't talking about differences that caused a revolution 200 years ago. We're talking about differences that cause people to get on a boat, plane, or hide in the back of a truck to get the hell out of wherever they are and come here, presumably because they liked things better over here, so using how things are done over THERE as an argument ain't gonna be very convincing.
Citing the do not call list doesn't work. They laugh.
Telling the male calling, in my deepest voice, that he sounds cute and I want his home number, THAT seems to work. Especially on the ones with southern accents.
I wonder what would happen if everyone started propositioning these callers for 'favors'.
The big problem on ext3, especially on MythTV systems, is that deleting of large files can take a long time, during which the system does almost nothing else.
And MyhTV uses a lot of large files
I've never understood why ext3 has to do this, even old style Solaris UFS returns instantly deleting a large file. You can then do repeated 'df' commands and watch the space free up.
For Windows, I've found EaseBackup from KIE Soft to be a good, cost-effective solution.
The same software can be used for backup to media or over FTP. It makes zip files, can pgp encrypt them, and support either incremental or 'patch' mode (where it only uploads essentially diff files)
He has a Linux client, but I don't know if it reads the EaseBackup files.
At least for me in the US, it as close to perfect as one could expect. Yes it does sometimes go to far, but you can skip from back and forth to marked points, so if it does, it's easy enough to jump back where you were.
The few times it's wrong is more than made up for by the usual convenience.
It is, however, US centric, as the developer of the skip code is in the US. Reports are that it does not do as well skipping on non-US stations.
I wouldn't equate skipping ads with a dvr to adblock. With the DVR, it requires forethought and actions on my part whenever an ad comes on. With Then you have the wrong dvr.
MythTV automatically marks and skips all commercials , with fairly high accuracy. It's a rare event that I have to manually do anything. Most commercials are just gone.
The two-player version, where one person drove the front, and someone else could stand in back and drive the back of the truck.
They also had Stunt Cycle at the time, but for an 8 year old, Fire Truck was it. It was hard to get time on the machine though, until Space Invaders came out.
Can you say "Person who actually wants to take a decent, color-balanced picture that isn't grainy" ?
I've taken one of a progression of SLRs with me on every trip since I was 10 years old, and wouldn't be caught dead with anything else. But you go ahead and waste your time with crappy point and drool cameras.
I'm surprised The Mad Scientist's Club by Bertrand R. Brinley hasn't been mentioned. There are four books in the series, all back in print (the last two actually in print in the US for the first time). The first books started as short stories in Boy's Life. It's about a group of kids who use basic science to sometimes help people, but also play a lot of practical jokes on the town. Great stories. The technology is all basic enough that it mostly doesn't date (like electromagnets and radio-servos).
Henry Reed, Inc. Also has possibilities. These are about a boy and the neighbor girl who start a research firm in the garage.
If you ever get younger kids, the Freddy the Pig books are fantastic -- a better Animal Farm than Orwell.
I seem to recall I had reading text books with a number of science fiction short stories, including "To Serve Man", Asimov's "The Feeling of Power" (the Manned Missile story), and excerpts from Edward Eagar's Half Magic. Eagar's series is great because it uses 'magic' to introduce some logic, literature, and history.
Another: "The City Under Ground", by Suzanne Martel (and I've been told just about anything by her).
Mod me rudundant. I meant to mod the parrent insightful, but slipped, and the stupid AJAX wouldn't let me take it back. So this reply is to negate my moderation. Sorry.
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99% of the time I would agree.
However, when the wife of the creator, who has essentially inherited the mantel, delivers a speech as a lesson to a child, in a series already known for being preachy, my gut tells me she meant this one.
The US may have left England when the colonists were taxed without representation . .
The US may have left England a while ago, but a great many of us left Europe far more recently. My father got the hell out of Italy around 1965.
His home town only had running water on alternate days, because the water supply had been blown in in WWII and wasn't fixed yet. Last time I visited family in the 80s, it still hadn't been fixed.
But I digress. The point is, we aren't talking about differences that caused a revolution 200 years ago. We're talking about differences that cause people to get on a boat, plane, or hide in the back of a truck to get the hell out of wherever they are and come here, presumably because they liked things better over here, so using how things are done over THERE as an argument ain't gonna be very convincing.
That many European countries require it isn't going to be a selling point to much of America.
A strike against it, if anything.
Keep in mind that we left Europe for a reason.
Asking to be removed doesn't work.
Citing the do not call list doesn't work. They laugh.
Telling the male calling, in my deepest voice, that he sounds cute and I want his home number, THAT seems to work. Especially on the ones with southern accents.
I wonder what would happen if everyone started propositioning these callers for 'favors'.
I have TV. I still set my MythTV to record it, and started watching about an hour in.
Why ? So I could use time-stretch to watch it at 1.5X speed. They take forever to say the simplest thing.
Time stretch is amazing. Get done in less time, without everyone sounding like chipmunks.
They didn't use pencil because broken leads would be a big problem in zero G.
The big problem on ext3, especially on MythTV systems, is that deleting of large files can take a long time, during which the system does almost nothing else.
And MyhTV uses a lot of large files
I've never understood why ext3 has to do this, even old style Solaris UFS returns instantly deleting a large file. You can then do repeated 'df' commands and watch the space free up.
For Windows, I've found EaseBackup from KIE Soft to be a good, cost-effective solution.
The same software can be used for backup to media or over FTP. It makes zip files, can pgp encrypt them, and support either incremental or 'patch' mode (where it only uploads essentially diff files)
He has a Linux client, but I don't know if it reads the EaseBackup files.
http://www.kiesoft.com/
But that's what I want to know ? Psya duck Psya no chicken ?
At least for me in the US, it as close to perfect as one could expect. Yes it does sometimes go to far, but you can skip from back and forth to marked points, so if it does, it's easy enough to jump back where you were.
The few times it's wrong is more than made up for by the usual convenience.
It is, however, US centric, as the developer of the skip code is in the US. Reports are that it does not do as well skipping on non-US stations.
MythTV automatically marks and skips all commercials , with fairly high accuracy. It's a rare event that I have to manually do anything. Most commercials are just gone.
http://www.mythtv.org/
When my original Atari sticks broke, I replaced them with the Pointmaster sticks from Discwasher:
http://www.atariguide.com//30/3090b.htm
My Atari 2600 is still hooked up to the TV, and I still use those sticks.
For sheer longevity, if not volume of games.
At the Rye (NY) Playland Ice Casino.
The two-player version, where one person drove the front, and someone else could stand in back and drive the back of the truck.
They also had Stunt Cycle at the time, but for an 8 year old, Fire Truck was it. It was hard to get time on the machine though, until Space Invaders came out.
http://www.swish-e.org/
Can you say "Person who actually wants to take a decent, color-balanced picture that isn't grainy" ?
I've taken one of a progression of SLRs with me on every trip since I was 10 years old, and wouldn't be caught dead with anything else. But you go ahead and waste your time with crappy point and drool cameras.
I'm surprised The Mad Scientist's Club by Bertrand R. Brinley hasn't been mentioned. There are four books in the series, all back in print (the last two actually in print in the US for the first time). The first books started as short stories in Boy's Life. It's about a group of kids who use basic science to sometimes help people, but also play a lot of practical jokes on the town. Great stories. The technology is all basic enough that it mostly doesn't date (like electromagnets and radio-servos).
Henry Reed, Inc. Also has possibilities. These are about a boy and the neighbor girl who start a research firm in the garage.
If you ever get younger kids, the Freddy the Pig books are fantastic -- a better Animal Farm than Orwell.
I seem to recall I had reading text books with a number of science fiction short stories, including "To Serve Man", Asimov's "The Feeling of Power" (the Manned Missile story), and excerpts from Edward Eagar's Half Magic.
Eagar's series is great because it uses 'magic' to introduce some logic, literature, and history.
Another: "The City Under Ground", by Suzanne Martel (and I've been told just about anything by her).
If they are showing video of them in a fancy office, that implies their movement is doing well.
If in fact they are in a cave somewhere in front of a black sheet, then the message is a big fat lie.
This was my idea too
Mod me rudundant. I meant to mod the parrent insightful, but slipped, and the stupid AJAX wouldn't let me take it back. So this reply is to negate my moderation. Sorry.
In college I did all my lab reports in MutliMate. Along with all my other reports, and articles for the school paper.
I believe I used Eureka for solving equations a number of times.
If I ever had to use a spreadsheet it was Lotus 1-2-3 .
Now in High School -- I did my reports in SuperScripsit.
Chat speak bears an uncanny resemblance to 'leet speak from the CNET days.
We grew out of it. I suspect they will too.
Maybe someone who managed to get the mp4 file before this went live could make a torrent of it ?
Where did this response come from ?
You got M.U.L.E for Linux !
T /Arcade/M-U-L-E-7431.shtml/
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMEN
Personally I prefer the menu layout of Mozilla/Seamonkey to that of Firefox.
To each their own. Long live Open Source !