I can only dream, wetly, of what would happen if GameTap teamed up with Cedega, or even started their own fork of wine, to make most/all of their games work in Linux. GameTap on a linux HTPC would make the ultimate console, imho. It would cost them a few thousand man hours, and gain them a few hundred customers. That has to add up eventually.
I like questing from 1 to 70. When I played WoW (for years, years ago), this was the single biggest appeal it held over other games. I am sure this is part of its enduring popularity. WoW is the only MMORPG where you can progress to the level cap without ever fighting the same monsters for more than an hour, and without doing the same (or pseudo randomly not-the-same) quests more than once. There is so much more STORY than in any other game, and it is laid out in a well designed balance including branches and just enough linearity to keep people on track.
I haven't read EBay's policies lately, but I think I recall that they say that auctions for cars are NOT binding contracts... I would probably expect the same to apply to airplanes, if that is still the case. Too busy to look it up now, maybe I will later or a friendly karma whore will reply:)
This has NOTHING to do with copyright or fair use. She is NOT being charged with copyright infringement. She is being charged with video taping a movie in a theater, which is itself illegal under local and state laws completely independent of federal copyright law. She would have been breaking the same law if she was recording a public domain film, or even if she was facing away from the screen and captured part of the movie's audio track.
Feel free to argue the sensibility of the actual law in question. Do not make inapplicable arguments about copyright.
18.2-187.2. Audiovisual recording of motion pictures unlawful; penalty. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate an audiovisual recording function of a device in a commercial theater, excluding the lobby and other common areas, to record a motion picture or any portion thereof without the consent of the owner or lessee of the theater. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.... D. The term "audiovisual recording function" means that component of an analog or digital photographic or video camera or other device developed with the capability to record or transmit a motion picture or any part thereof.
Emission Controls? Bah. You should see the scores my Metro gets at mandatory yearly emission testing. Bottom (cleanest) 10%, easily.
Airbags I have, driver and front passenger. No sides, sadly.
Power steering is a non-issue in a 1600 pound car. Hell, you can almost steer the damn thing by holding your hands out the window:)
I am pretty damn sure a frame that passes today's safety requirements would be cheaper AND lighter than the steel box built into the Metro 15 years ago.
PDF really is the best for resumes, because it means that how I see my resume, is exactly how everyone else will see my resume. I hate to break it to you, but that is completely untrue. PDFs have heavy reliance on fonts. If we don't have the same fonts, we aren't going to see (most) PDFs the same. I encounter this problem on a daily basis.
Screw electric cars. Battery technology is improving too fast to make one worthwhile, when more efficient batteries with longer range will be out for the same price every 'next year' for the next ten years. My solution is a Geo Metro. 45-49 MPG on plain old gas. Passed (barely, in some cases) safety requirements. Carries more cargo than most sedans (I brought home a dishwasher last month).
What we need, RIGHT NOW, is for a major car company to build a modern version of the Metro. The technology in my engine is at least 15 years old (its a 1994 car, with an engine made in 1992 by Suzuki). So is the design of the frame. Take everything we have learned in 15 years and apply it to building a cheap versatile efficient car today. You could have a car with better acceleration and handling than the Metro, a more efficient engine, better safety engineering, and more stock features... all for well under $10000.
I am 2/3 of the IT department in a company with 4 locations, 200 users, 20 thin clients and 100 PCs. We are currently 80% Win XP, 15% Mac, 5% Linux. We are NOT migrating to Vista, ever. We have eliminated all MS software other than Windows, moving to Thunderbird+Firefox+OpenOffice over the last year. Our plan is to get away from Windows completely before XP reaches EOL and never touch Vista.
You are absolutely correct. Since the blocks shift downwards when you step on them, walking across this floor would be equivalent to walking up a set of stairs, with each 'next' block higher than the one you are standing on.
All the other replies are pointing out great "ticket tracking" software, but I think that is the easy half of this request. I too have searched for what the original submitter is searching for. The key thing that is missing from the existing offerings is hour and work logs. Put simply, at the end of a ticket we need how much to bill the client for. Integrated invoicing would be awesome.
Nielsen's stats are worthless in SO many ways. Let me illustrate two...
1) Ranking Warcraft and Halo as popular as Counter-Strike is ridiculous.
2) As far as I can ascertain, no one within 2 'degrees of separation' (that is, no one that anyone I know knows) of me has ever been involved in a Nielsen poll, for TV or gaming or any of the other things they take statistics for. That tells me their polling sample is either horribly biased against every demographic that contains me, or that it is so small as to be statistically insufficient (or both).
I used to agree with you. Back when putting everything in one device increased the cost exorbitantly, or resulted in sub-par performance. But those days are over. My life is easier and more fun when I carry a phone, camera, web-capable PDA, and handheld game console. As many of those functions as I can cram into one device, without sacrificing performance or increasing cost more than linearly, I will take. 2 megapixel is plenty for snapshots, and lots of companies are putting 2MP in camera phones now. Phone+PDA has been trivial for years, but now we are starting to get open platforms so I can run the software *I* want on the device. As to gaming, that's tougher, but with open platforms it will solve itself.
I was never much for thumbboards, but I use a similar adaptation. I keep my right index finger filed to a *SLIGHT* point (about 150 degrees, 1mm radius curve) and it is the best stylus I have ever used.
The casino by law cannot pick up change off the floor I worked at a casino for 3.5 days once, thanks to this law. After day 3 came orientation, on the way to which I picked a quarter up off the floor. The next day in the middle of my shift I get a call to report to security, where I get fired and escorted from the premises. Thank god I was underage, if I had been 21 and had a gaming permit it would have been revoked for life.
My company of ~200 users has perhaps a dozen services that require logins... and they are ALL synchronized. From our legacy SCO Unix apps to our LAMP intranet site, each person has only one login and password. The synchronization is mostly handled by performing logins via LDAP, with a few of the most stubborn bits being subject to a script that resets them to match the LDAP database every so often.
Thanks for the heads up. I am not involved with the company other than as a customer, their price just seems like a good deal to advertise. I contacted them about the animation, maybe I can get it turned off for people using my affiliate link.
Uhm, you jump from "for business" to "company servers"... Have you considered linux desktops? My boss was transitioning my office from all-microsoft to openoffice+thunderbird+firefox on PC a year ago. he recently started moving our executives (the people without specialized windows-only price quoting software) over to macs, and i am working on linux desktops for some people. We plan to be entirely off microsoft software before XP hits EOL, and linux is going to help us do that.
PS: Our servers run OS X, Windows 2003, and SCO Unix:)
(all numbers made up) The problem is that the car parts manufacturer has dictated profit margins at each level of the distribution chain. They sell to the wholesaler for $100, and require him to sell to the retailer for $150, and require the retailer to sell for $200. Someone managed to get some units from a wholesaler for $150 without signing the "will only sell for $200" contract, so now they can sell for $175, cream the retailer competition, and still make a $25 per unit profit. The ACTUAL contract breach in this example is the wholesaler selling to someone who hasn't signed the price fixing agreement, and that may or may not be actionable. But what is going on here, pursuing the "illegal" retailer, is bogus.
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I can only dream, wetly, of what would happen if GameTap teamed up with Cedega, or even started their own fork of wine, to make most/all of their games work in Linux. GameTap on a linux HTPC would make the ultimate console, imho. It would cost them a few thousand man hours, and gain them a few hundred customers. That has to add up eventually.
I haven't read EBay's policies lately, but I think I recall that they say that auctions for cars are NOT binding contracts... I would probably expect the same to apply to airplanes, if that is still the case. Too busy to look it up now, maybe I will later or a friendly karma whore will reply :)
You are completely wrong in every way.
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This has NOTHING to do with copyright or fair use. She is NOT being charged with copyright infringement. She is being charged with video taping a movie in a theater, which is itself illegal under local and state laws completely independent of federal copyright law. She would have been breaking the same law if she was recording a public domain film, or even if she was facing away from the screen and captured part of the movie's audio track.
Feel free to argue the sensibility of the actual law in question. Do not make inapplicable arguments about copyright.
18.2-187.2. Audiovisual recording of motion pictures unlawful; penalty.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate an audiovisual recording function of a device in a commercial theater, excluding the lobby and other common areas, to record a motion picture or any portion thereof without the consent of the owner or lessee of the theater. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
D. The term "audiovisual recording function" means that component of an analog or digital photographic or video camera or other device developed with the capability to record or transmit a motion picture or any part thereof.
Emission Controls? Bah. You should see the scores my Metro gets at mandatory yearly emission testing. Bottom (cleanest) 10%, easily.
:)
Airbags I have, driver and front passenger. No sides, sadly.
Power steering is a non-issue in a 1600 pound car. Hell, you can almost steer the damn thing by holding your hands out the window
I am pretty damn sure a frame that passes today's safety requirements would be cheaper AND lighter than the steel box built into the Metro 15 years ago.
Screw electric cars. Battery technology is improving too fast to make one worthwhile, when more efficient batteries with longer range will be out for the same price every 'next year' for the next ten years. My solution is a Geo Metro. 45-49 MPG on plain old gas. Passed (barely, in some cases) safety requirements. Carries more cargo than most sedans (I brought home a dishwasher last month).
What we need, RIGHT NOW, is for a major car company to build a modern version of the Metro. The technology in my engine is at least 15 years old (its a 1994 car, with an engine made in 1992 by Suzuki). So is the design of the frame. Take everything we have learned in 15 years and apply it to building a cheap versatile efficient car today. You could have a car with better acceleration and handling than the Metro, a more efficient engine, better safety engineering, and more stock features... all for well under $10000.
PS: Check out the Loremo.
I am 2/3 of the IT department in a company with 4 locations, 200 users, 20 thin clients and 100 PCs. We are currently 80% Win XP, 15% Mac, 5% Linux. We are NOT migrating to Vista, ever. We have eliminated all MS software other than Windows, moving to Thunderbird+Firefox+OpenOffice over the last year. Our plan is to get away from Windows completely before XP reaches EOL and never touch Vista.
You are absolutely correct. Since the blocks shift downwards when you step on them, walking across this floor would be equivalent to walking up a set of stairs, with each 'next' block higher than the one you are standing on.
All the other replies are pointing out great "ticket tracking" software, but I think that is the easy half of this request. I too have searched for what the original submitter is searching for. The key thing that is missing from the existing offerings is hour and work logs. Put simply, at the end of a ticket we need how much to bill the client for. Integrated invoicing would be awesome.
One might expect you to eventually figure out that withdrawing $95 would save a whole lot of hassle...
Maybe he had a straight and/or a flush and/or 4-to-a-straight-flush on the flop. Plenty of ways that sort of hand could be worth playing to the end.
A suited pair? What? Obviously you don't mean a pair, from context. Try to get it right next time.
Bullshit and Hogwash.
Nielsen's stats are worthless in SO many ways. Let me illustrate two...
1) Ranking Warcraft and Halo as popular as Counter-Strike is ridiculous.
2) As far as I can ascertain, no one within 2 'degrees of separation' (that is, no one that anyone I know knows) of me has ever been involved in a Nielsen poll, for TV or gaming or any of the other things they take statistics for. That tells me their polling sample is either horribly biased against every demographic that contains me, or that it is so small as to be statistically insufficient (or both).
I used to agree with you. Back when putting everything in one device increased the cost exorbitantly, or resulted in sub-par performance. But those days are over. My life is easier and more fun when I carry a phone, camera, web-capable PDA, and handheld game console. As many of those functions as I can cram into one device, without sacrificing performance or increasing cost more than linearly, I will take. 2 megapixel is plenty for snapshots, and lots of companies are putting 2MP in camera phones now. Phone+PDA has been trivial for years, but now we are starting to get open platforms so I can run the software *I* want on the device. As to gaming, that's tougher, but with open platforms it will solve itself.
Hate to break it to you, but a properly designed web page will not wait for one (or ten) image to load before showing you the content.
Uhm, how/why would 10 affiliate links/sponsors slow down your site?
I recall third party UO servers 3-4 years ago. Not sure if they go back 7+ though. Find one of them, play UO as you remember it.
I was never much for thumbboards, but I use a similar adaptation. I keep my right index finger filed to a *SLIGHT* point (about 150 degrees, 1mm radius curve) and it is the best stylus I have ever used.
No. Which meant I was eligible for unemployment... or would have been if I was of age :(
My company of ~200 users has perhaps a dozen services that require logins... and they are ALL synchronized. From our legacy SCO Unix apps to our LAMP intranet site, each person has only one login and password. The synchronization is mostly handled by performing logins via LDAP, with a few of the most stubborn bits being subject to a script that resets them to match the LDAP database every so often.
In other words...
YOURE DOING IT WRONG.
Thanks for the heads up. I am not involved with the company other than as a customer, their price just seems like a good deal to advertise. I contacted them about the animation, maybe I can get it turned off for people using my affiliate link.
Uhm, you jump from "for business" to "company servers"... Have you considered linux desktops? My boss was transitioning my office from all-microsoft to openoffice+thunderbird+firefox on PC a year ago. he recently started moving our executives (the people without specialized windows-only price quoting software) over to macs, and i am working on linux desktops for some people. We plan to be entirely off microsoft software before XP hits EOL, and linux is going to help us do that.
:)
PS: Our servers run OS X, Windows 2003, and SCO Unix
(all numbers made up)
The problem is that the car parts manufacturer has dictated profit margins at each level of the distribution chain. They sell to the wholesaler for $100, and require him to sell to the retailer for $150, and require the retailer to sell for $200. Someone managed to get some units from a wholesaler for $150 without signing the "will only sell for $200" contract, so now they can sell for $175, cream the retailer competition, and still make a $25 per unit profit. The ACTUAL contract breach in this example is the wholesaler selling to someone who hasn't signed the price fixing agreement, and that may or may not be actionable. But what is going on here, pursuing the "illegal" retailer, is bogus.