No. They specifically allowed it, all you had to do was answer a couple questions quarterly to renew the subscription. I'm not sure how people abused it, other than by maybe hitting too hard. Once a day should be sufficient, you'd think - pick up info for the "new" day as well as changes since the last time you checked. But, if you instead picked up a full two weeks every time you hit it, thrice daily, I can see how that'd be a problem for them...
Or if someone picked up the data, then rebroadcast it somehow...
How would it being preconfigured with a distro prevent the risk of losing its guide feeds? Just like old versions of Winamp come configured to access the original cddb instead of freedb.
The starting sound in Pac-Man for the 2600 was the worst - 4 (?) discordant notes. I can still hear it grating through me. I hesitate even to subject the rest of you to remembering it, but I feel I have to since you didn't mention it. ET wasn't a great game, but compared to that sound...yeah, I'm going to agree with you - Pac-Man was MUCH worse.
But ET was by no means good...though I did spend a lot of time playing it. (Hey, I was 10 or something, I didn't know better.)
I was always amazed at the later games, like Midnight Magic (pinball game), and how much better they'd gotten. Now I realize that probably has to do with more memory in the cartridges.
There's no actual guarantee, but land is a limited quantity - there's only so much earth to go around. Thus over the long run the value has to increase, since the population of the earth is still increasing and people need places to live. There may be downturns here and there but for a long term investment land is normally pretty good.
Still, that's aside the original point - paying rent = no equity whatsoever. Buying land = equity, even if it does decrease.
Sounds like something wrong with your printer driver. My USB HP Officejet works just fine whether it's on or off when I boot. In fact I only turn it on when I want to print or scan something.
Ever visit Gettysburg, PA? I've been there numerous times and have seen the electric map presentation probably a dozen times. I'm always struck by how they say, "...and so-and-so was compelled to fall back." They never say, "So-and-so retreated."
That map is decades old, I think. It's been there for as long as I can remember, and I'm 32. In other words, this type of "toning down" is definitely not a new phenomenon.
That doesn't look like a PCjr board to me, by the way.
The PCjr had various nonstandard connectors on the back. Also there were two slots on the board itself, for the optional 64K upgrade and the optional disk drive controller. Finally there was another large connector on the one side for the sidecar (I'm not sure if that connector was physically on the motherboard or not - it may have been a ribbon cable to the side - but obviously there was some connection for the sidecars on the motherboard).
The way it handled your account was pretty neat, though - you'd get a code that you'd punch in next time you played (on any copy of the game). But as you said the difficulty didn't really increase so after two or three cycles it didn't matter.
I had the same problem but it's been a LOT longer since it stopped working, and like you I had the account for many years without a problem. I registered a new number but got so much spim that I don't log in any more.
My bet: someone will discover, after all these discs are in the stores, that the theft protection can be overridden with a two-AA-cell Maglite or something. Hilarity will ensue as the creators of the scheme sue that person into oblivion via the DMCA.
At least, that's how all the other "protection" schemes lately seem to be going...
I've checked them against several of those "your speed is..." signs in different states, and the Cougar's needle does read two or three MPH slow at 65 MPH, which is so small that I have trouble believing that'd be the source of the trouble. Also, from what I've read (though I haven't checked it myself), the computers in them is actually getting the correct speed; it's just the needle that's low. (In the Cougars, there is an onboard diagnostic mode that's mostly useless but does report the actual speed reported by the vehicle speed sensor among other things, and other Cougar owners have reported that display is correct.)
The Impala doesn't have a similar feature, but the needle on the Impala seems to be correct. And for as far off as the Impala is, I think if it were a speedometer issue, the difference between the Impala's speed and those "your speed is..." signs would be pretty obvious. However, I should note that the Cougar usually goes on trips with me, not the Impala, so I haven't had as much experience with the Impala and those "your speed is..." signs.
I think your comment is right for an individual item, but shrinkage is an expense that has to be figured into overhead, and higher overhead means that the revenue must be higher to achieve the same profit margins. So it may not affect an individual item, true, but it does affect all items.
Both of my cars have MPG readouts, but... they're both off.
My '99 Cougar reads about 5% high on average (actually, it's not percent but a ratio than can exceed one, but only statisticians care about the difference, and maybe not even then - however this is why I don't have variances on my numbers; I haven't gotten around to looking it up to calculate it, since it's not a simple p(1-p) formula).
My '04 Impala reads about 8% high on average.
I've been tracking the Cougar for 4 or 5 years, and the Impala since I bought it (in late 2003), so I have good amount of data for both. Compared to other owners of both vehicles, these numbers are not out of line.
I have a theory, though. If I were an auto manufacturer and wanted people to feel good about my cars, having the MPG readout be a bit high would be a good way to do that. It's small enough that most people wouldn't notice a difference when they go to pump gas, but it's large enough to make you think you got a couple extra MPG. (-1, Conspiracy, I know.)
Ah, okay, thanks. Not being in the teaching field I'm not familiar with the programs.
I do remember a couple math ed people at college that got all the way to student teaching in their fourth year and discovered they didn't like teaching. That'd be pretty depressing, I think.
According to an MTV article that's linked in the Post blog comments, the school said they did it for "academic reasons" - i.e., insinuating she didn't pass some courses. Aside from the fact that's a pretty nasty thing for them to say, I have trouble understanding how you'd pass well enough to get an English degree but not a teaching degree, since you probably wouldn't have enough credits to get the English degree if you failed one of your teaching-only courses. (Unless she had a lot of extra credits or something.) Moreover I can't see why the school thought that would be an acceptable solution - English probably wasn't her declared major.
Also, the school mascot is the "Marauder" which seems to take the form of... a pirate!
I considered Millersville when I was picking colleges... I'm glad I went to Clarion instead! (Of course, at my graduation, they gave an honorary doctorate to Regas of Adelphia cable, who is now serving a jail sentence for embezzlement or something of that company.)
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No. They specifically allowed it, all you had to do was answer a couple questions quarterly to renew the subscription. I'm not sure how people abused it, other than by maybe hitting too hard. Once a day should be sufficient, you'd think - pick up info for the "new" day as well as changes since the last time you checked. But, if you instead picked up a full two weeks every time you hit it, thrice daily, I can see how that'd be a problem for them...
Or if someone picked up the data, then rebroadcast it somehow...
How would it being preconfigured with a distro prevent the risk of losing its guide feeds? Just like old versions of Winamp come configured to access the original cddb instead of freedb.
They might be built in the US, but where does the profit go?
The starting sound in Pac-Man for the 2600 was the worst - 4 (?) discordant notes. I can still hear it grating through me. I hesitate even to subject the rest of you to remembering it, but I feel I have to since you didn't mention it. ET wasn't a great game, but compared to that sound...yeah, I'm going to agree with you - Pac-Man was MUCH worse.
But ET was by no means good...though I did spend a lot of time playing it. (Hey, I was 10 or something, I didn't know better.)
I was always amazed at the later games, like Midnight Magic (pinball game), and how much better they'd gotten. Now I realize that probably has to do with more memory in the cartridges.
There's no actual guarantee, but land is a limited quantity - there's only so much earth to go around. Thus over the long run the value has to increase, since the population of the earth is still increasing and people need places to live. There may be downturns here and there but for a long term investment land is normally pretty good.
Still, that's aside the original point - paying rent = no equity whatsoever. Buying land = equity, even if it does decrease.
Because you can sell it and get money back, usually more than you bought it for.
It looks like you are trying to make out...
I cut myself on one that contained a copy of Windows XP!
I almost always use Linux at home but I needed Windows for teleworking (don't ask), so I figured I'd go legit and buy a copy.
Then I cut myself on it, and I thought, "This doesn't bode well..." Yep, the install went poorly.
Sounds like something wrong with your printer driver. My USB HP Officejet works just fine whether it's on or off when I boot. In fact I only turn it on when I want to print or scan something.
Ever visit Gettysburg, PA? I've been there numerous times and have seen the electric map presentation probably a dozen times. I'm always struck by how they say, "...and so-and-so was compelled to fall back." They never say, "So-and-so retreated."
That map is decades old, I think. It's been there for as long as I can remember, and I'm 32. In other words, this type of "toning down" is definitely not a new phenomenon.
I really don't know - I'm no expert on the 8088, I just happened to have a couple PCjr's. :)
That doesn't look like a PCjr board to me, by the way.
The PCjr had various nonstandard connectors on the back. Also there were two slots on the board itself, for the optional 64K upgrade and the optional disk drive controller. Finally there was another large connector on the one side for the sidecar (I'm not sure if that connector was physically on the motherboard or not - it may have been a ribbon cable to the side - but obviously there was some connection for the sidecars on the motherboard).
Sir! Get ahold of yourself!
So no one drives a stick in WA?
Yeah, it was a good game, but too easy.
The way it handled your account was pretty neat, though - you'd get a code that you'd punch in next time you played (on any copy of the game). But as you said the difficulty didn't really increase so after two or three cycles it didn't matter.
I had the same problem but it's been a LOT longer since it stopped working, and like you I had the account for many years without a problem. I registered a new number but got so much spim that I don't log in any more.
My bet: someone will discover, after all these discs are in the stores, that the theft protection can be overridden with a two-AA-cell Maglite or something. Hilarity will ensue as the creators of the scheme sue that person into oblivion via the DMCA.
At least, that's how all the other "protection" schemes lately seem to be going...
I've checked them against several of those "your speed is..." signs in different states, and the Cougar's needle does read two or three MPH slow at 65 MPH, which is so small that I have trouble believing that'd be the source of the trouble. Also, from what I've read (though I haven't checked it myself), the computers in them is actually getting the correct speed; it's just the needle that's low. (In the Cougars, there is an onboard diagnostic mode that's mostly useless but does report the actual speed reported by the vehicle speed sensor among other things, and other Cougar owners have reported that display is correct.)
The Impala doesn't have a similar feature, but the needle on the Impala seems to be correct. And for as far off as the Impala is, I think if it were a speedometer issue, the difference between the Impala's speed and those "your speed is..." signs would be pretty obvious. However, I should note that the Cougar usually goes on trips with me, not the Impala, so I haven't had as much experience with the Impala and those "your speed is..." signs.
I think your comment is right for an individual item, but shrinkage is an expense that has to be figured into overhead, and higher overhead means that the revenue must be higher to achieve the same profit margins. So it may not affect an individual item, true, but it does affect all items.
Both of my cars have MPG readouts, but... they're both off.
My '99 Cougar reads about 5% high on average (actually, it's not percent but a ratio than can exceed one, but only statisticians care about the difference, and maybe not even then - however this is why I don't have variances on my numbers; I haven't gotten around to looking it up to calculate it, since it's not a simple p(1-p) formula).
My '04 Impala reads about 8% high on average.
I've been tracking the Cougar for 4 or 5 years, and the Impala since I bought it (in late 2003), so I have good amount of data for both. Compared to other owners of both vehicles, these numbers are not out of line.
I have a theory, though. If I were an auto manufacturer and wanted people to feel good about my cars, having the MPG readout be a bit high would be a good way to do that. It's small enough that most people wouldn't notice a difference when they go to pump gas, but it's large enough to make you think you got a couple extra MPG. (-1, Conspiracy, I know.)
Ah, okay, thanks. Not being in the teaching field I'm not familiar with the programs.
I do remember a couple math ed people at college that got all the way to student teaching in their fourth year and discovered they didn't like teaching. That'd be pretty depressing, I think.
According to an MTV article that's linked in the Post blog comments, the school said they did it for "academic reasons" - i.e., insinuating she didn't pass some courses. Aside from the fact that's a pretty nasty thing for them to say, I have trouble understanding how you'd pass well enough to get an English degree but not a teaching degree, since you probably wouldn't have enough credits to get the English degree if you failed one of your teaching-only courses. (Unless she had a lot of extra credits or something.) Moreover I can't see why the school thought that would be an acceptable solution - English probably wasn't her declared major.
Also, the school mascot is the "Marauder" which seems to take the form of... a pirate!
I considered Millersville when I was picking colleges... I'm glad I went to Clarion instead! (Of course, at my graduation, they gave an honorary doctorate to Regas of Adelphia cable, who is now serving a jail sentence for embezzlement or something of that company.)
Reminds me of the E4OD transmission in my motorhome...it seems like they can be summed up as, "They're a great transmission, until they break."
Thank you - exactly what I was thinking. :)
As do I.
Does Dell use proprietary power supply connectors and all, or do they use standard components?