He's right, some of the recipes in the Anarchist's Cookbook have been doctored so as to cause the "chemist" injury. There are more reputable texts out there to learn from.
(Incidentally - someone tell me why the Xbox's built-in Ethernet is such a big 'advantage'. I don't get that. You have to buy the Live Kit to use it anyways, right? Why couldn't they have put the adapter with that and saved some buyers - or themselves - a few dollars?)
Well, even if you don't have Live, then you can use a standard network setup to play system link games, no special cables required. Previously, to play on PS2, you either only played 1 vs. 1 with the link cable, or you picked up a firewire hub and a number of 4-to-6 pin firewire cables for additional players. Now that the PS2 network adaptor is out has the functionality of system linking changed on it at all? I haven't picked one up for mine yet.
Under Win2K I've done a swap between a Gigabyte 7IX and a Asus K7 mainboard, and the only issue was that I had to cycle through the boot-and-reboot process five times for it to get all the drivers in place. It was stable for about three weeks, then I ended the little experiment by doing a fresh install.
At work I was building a utility machine out of spare parts and tried swapping a drive with XP between systems and it puked before it even displayed the logo.:) This is the only time I've had a bluescreen under XP.
And this machine had the mainboard swapped out last night under XP, but it was only a very minor upgrade. An MSI KT333 Ultra to a KT4V. Since the boards have only minor hardware changes and revisions it was expected to go smoothly and did:)
After turning off all the "pretty" and "friendly" stuff that wastes screenspace in XP I find it a reliable and competent OS. But then I've never had to try and program for it.;)
Linux has failed to catch on among ordinary users because PC manufacturers have been prevented from offering dual-boot systems.
That's not why it's failed to catch on. It's because the average computer user still finds Windows complicated to use... and that's when it comes pre-installed on their computer when they buy it. To the average user Linux is just too complicated with diminishing returns. If you walk into a store and pick up a piece of software chances are it will either run on your Windows or Mac machine. With Linux you have to put some work into it, like actually reading some documentation or finding the site. A scary proposition by itself, let alone trying to install it from ISOs.
Linux still won't be consumer friendly (despite some of the great packages out there) for years to come.
Anyone else who has done Windows support for an organization with 5000+ employees in it can vouch for the reluctance of the user to actually think while using their machine.
I'm soooo sorry about the wastebasket, Sir. You see they were serving East Indian cuisine in the caf and I forgot my watch today. And you know those locks on the bathroom doors... once again Sir, my apologies.
I was disappointed too. I was looking forward to someting along the lines of the "Burning Earth" Terminator miniseries of comics that came out a decade ago... Dark future, after the war, all that stuff. This looks like T2 with the villian having a sex change. Sigh.
What a sneaky way to hide bonus cheques.:) Put them in bobble-headed dolls. 90% of the employees throw them out or destroy them in a fit of rage. 10 Percent pull off the head and find a nice surprise inside and cash it.:) The company saves hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the CEO has a good laugh and buys a new gold plated pitchfork.
You could base it off the local food supply... If soldiers were under orders to consume only MRE packs while in a Middle Easter location, then mines could be programmed to detect strong odors like curry, or other oft-used spices from the region.
It could be used in reverse as well... You feed all your soldiers rations with heavy amounts of garlic. Everyone stinks but they can safely run though a minefield of combined motion/odor detectors. The pursuing enemy attempts to follow them in and is blown apart because their lack of key odor doesn't disable the mines.
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You do a good job of describing *any* movie targeting the mass-media demographic. Summer blockbusters (or failures) aimed at the general population usually overexplain the obvious and use the wonderful hollywood foreshadowing method where whatever the hero does for fun in the first 2 minutes of the movie is used to defeat the bad guy.
Neither Amistad nor Schindler's List were intended to cater to the blockbuster crowd, and were exemplary pieces of work. For those who haven't seen Amistad I would highly recommend it. For such a serious subject it has some great situational humour that lightens the mood in a natural way, without detracting from the storyline at all.
There are many other sites out there that have reviewers that are paid to be unbiased. Most aren't of course, but we can feel comfortable in that illusory world as we check up on products on the sites the specialize in them:)
Seeing as Bezos probably isn't monitoring this thread looking for suggestions, the question of what can be done about it is pretty moot. If you want to eliminate the frauds, get a job at Amazon, claw your way up through the ranks and change policy.
As a former Radio Shack drone (one Xmas season, that's it), I saw a lot of Panasonic and Sanyo items go out the door. The Sanyo stuff was constantly coming back for warranty replacement, whereas the Panasonic items (mostly phones and stereos for both brands) were brought back for the following two reasons: 1) cordless phone battery needed replacing. 2) user damaged it themselves, but had replacement warranty.
I've had great luck with Sony, Panasonic, GE, and JVC products, but would probably never purchase Sanyo again even though it's been years since I dealt with all that shoddy merchandise.
Retailers love those of us with a long memory for brand loyalty, however misplaced it may eventually become:)
You too can explore the dark and dangerous realm of the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, while seeing a piece of British history firsthand. Please do not disturb the soccer hooligan breeding tanks.
Some 800 numbers just forward you to a 976 or other billable number once your connected... Ms Cleo for example. Just because it's an 800 doesn't make it safe.
I don't think any of the professional game coders I've asked for friends have said they learned anything applicable to the industry in University.
When you tell that to the person wanting to know how they can get into the industry though, they don't want to hear it.
For someone without programming knowledge school is a good stepping stone, but currently you have to turn to online resources and bookstores to find the real treasures.
It might be quite a while before we see real growth in the area too... the people who really get it are too busy doing what they love... many of the most qualified would probably be miserable teaching.
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"But teacher, my homework mutated!"
He's right, some of the recipes in the Anarchist's Cookbook have been doctored so as to cause the "chemist" injury.
There are more reputable texts out there to learn from.
"The CLIT is real! The female orgasm, that's the myth."
(Incidentally - someone tell me why the Xbox's built-in Ethernet is such a big 'advantage'. I don't get that. You have to buy the Live Kit to use it anyways, right? Why couldn't they have put the adapter with that and saved some buyers - or themselves - a few dollars?)
Well, even if you don't have Live, then you can use a standard network setup to play system link games, no special cables required. Previously, to play on PS2, you either only played 1 vs. 1 with the link cable, or you picked up a firewire hub and a number of 4-to-6 pin firewire cables for additional players. Now that the PS2 network adaptor is out has the functionality of system linking changed on it at all? I haven't picked one up for mine yet.
Under Win2K I've done a swap between a Gigabyte 7IX and a Asus K7 mainboard, and the only issue was that I had to cycle through the boot-and-reboot process five times for it to get all the drivers in place. It was stable for about three weeks, then I ended the little experiment by doing a fresh install.
:) This is the only time I've had a bluescreen under XP.
:)
;)
At work I was building a utility machine out of spare parts and tried swapping a drive with XP between systems and it puked before it even displayed the logo.
And this machine had the mainboard swapped out last night under XP, but it was only a very minor upgrade. An MSI KT333 Ultra to a KT4V. Since the boards have only minor hardware changes and revisions it was expected to go smoothly and did
After turning off all the "pretty" and "friendly" stuff that wastes screenspace in XP I find it a reliable and competent OS. But then I've never had to try and program for it.
Linux has failed to catch on among ordinary users because PC manufacturers have been prevented from offering dual-boot systems.
That's not why it's failed to catch on. It's because the average computer user still finds Windows complicated to use... and that's when it comes pre-installed on their computer when they buy it. To the average user Linux is just too complicated with diminishing returns. If you walk into a store and pick up a piece of software chances are it will either run on your Windows or Mac machine. With Linux you have to put some work into it, like actually reading some documentation or finding the site. A scary proposition by itself, let alone trying to install it from ISOs.
Linux still won't be consumer friendly (despite some of the great packages out there) for years to come.
Anyone else who has done Windows support for an organization with 5000+ employees in it can vouch for the reluctance of the user to actually think while using their machine.
Hezbollah: Can ne1 spare some plat?
Osama: Yes my brother, Death to America! Do you have the box cutter of holy might? Then to Jihad!
Sounds like more Americans moved there. :)
I'm soooo sorry about the wastebasket, Sir. You see they were serving East Indian cuisine in the caf and I forgot my watch today. And you know those locks on the bathroom doors... once again Sir, my apologies.
I was disappointed too. I was looking forward to someting along the lines of the "Burning Earth" Terminator miniseries of comics that came out a decade ago... Dark future, after the war, all that stuff.
This looks like T2 with the villian having a sex change. Sigh.
What a sneaky way to hide bonus cheques. :) :)
Put them in bobble-headed dolls. 90% of the employees throw them out or destroy them in a fit of rage.
10 Percent pull off the head and find a nice surprise inside and cash it.
The company saves hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the CEO has a good laugh and buys a new gold plated pitchfork.
You could base it off the local food supply...
If soldiers were under orders to consume only MRE packs while in a Middle Easter location, then mines could be programmed to detect strong odors like curry, or other oft-used spices from the region.
It could be used in reverse as well...
You feed all your soldiers rations with heavy amounts of garlic. Everyone stinks but they can safely run though a minefield of combined motion/odor detectors. The pursuing enemy attempts to follow them in and is blown apart because their lack of key odor doesn't disable the mines.
You do a good job of describing *any* movie targeting the mass-media demographic. Summer blockbusters (or failures) aimed at the general population usually overexplain the obvious and use the wonderful hollywood foreshadowing method where whatever the hero does for fun in the first 2 minutes of the movie is used to defeat the bad guy.
Neither Amistad nor Schindler's List were intended to cater to the blockbuster crowd, and were exemplary pieces of work. For those who haven't seen Amistad I would highly recommend it. For such a serious subject it has some great situational humour that lightens the mood in a natural way, without detracting from the storyline at all.
Because the CIA was in a hiring freeze when they applied?
Headline:
Fugitive Serves Two Terms as Mayor of Small Town: Veganism and Lactose Intolerance to Blame
Ignore them...
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:)
There are many other sites out there that have reviewers that are paid to be unbiased. Most aren't of course, but we can feel comfortable in that illusory world as we check up on products on the sites the specialize in them
Seeing as Bezos probably isn't monitoring this thread looking for suggestions, the question of what can be done about it is pretty moot. If you want to eliminate the frauds, get a job at Amazon, claw your way up through the ranks and change policy.
Good luck!
As a former Radio Shack drone (one Xmas season, that's it), I saw a lot of Panasonic and Sanyo items go out the door. The Sanyo stuff was constantly coming back for warranty replacement, whereas the Panasonic items (mostly phones and stereos for both brands) were brought back for the following two reasons:
:)
1) cordless phone battery needed replacing.
2) user damaged it themselves, but had replacement warranty.
I've had great luck with Sony, Panasonic, GE, and JVC products, but would probably never purchase Sanyo again even though it's been years since I dealt with all that shoddy merchandise.
Retailers love those of us with a long memory for brand loyalty, however misplaced it may eventually become
I've always wondered about the 'free as in beer' analogy...
After all, the saying goes "You don't buy beer, you rent it."
So beer sounds more like a licensing deal. In the end, if you keep trying to use it, you just end up with a bad taste in your mouth.
You too can explore the dark and dangerous realm of the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, while seeing a piece of British history firsthand. Please do not disturb the soccer hooligan breeding tanks.
The Canadian Atomic Energy Control board lists it's exposure schedule here.
:)
I remember reading something years ago about 600 Rems a year being the safe limit for an individual but this shows it to be considerably lower.
I wonder how much radiation those little radium watch dials gave off
Some 800 numbers just forward you to a 976 or other billable number once your connected... Ms Cleo for example.
Just because it's an 800 doesn't make it safe.
Mod this man +informative! ;)
Wow, aren't you a prejudiced prick.
I don't think any of the professional game coders I've asked for friends have said they learned anything applicable to the industry in University.
When you tell that to the person wanting to know how they can get into the industry though, they don't want to hear it.
For someone without programming knowledge school is a good stepping stone, but currently you have to turn to online resources and bookstores to find the real treasures.
It might be quite a while before we see real growth in the area too... the people who really get it are too busy doing what they love... many of the most qualified would probably be miserable teaching.
No wonder my mom resented me so much.
The keyboard and mouse I carried out of the womb musta hurt like hell.