Buy with cash? What is this, 1980? If you insist... The only two 'official' importers in the USA are located in Yorba Linda, CA and Chicago, IL. I imagine if you care to visit them, instead of ordering online, they would be happy to take your cash.
As to English language games... There are only two "real" commercial games, Payback (port of a GBA game, very cool 3D GTA clone) and Vektar (retro top-down shooter something like Geometry Wars). But you make the serious mistake of assuming that you have to buy games. There are dozens of free games of commercial quality (Beats of Rage, Quake, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Ur Quan Masters, Super Mario War, and Tail Teiru come to mind), as well as great emulators for every platform up to SNES (and not so fast emulators for later platforms like PSX) which gives you a library of tens of thousands of games if you are willing to download ROMs (or just hundreds if you only download legal ROMs).
When someone gives us a handheld that has a video output that allows us to play the games on a television, then they can claim supremacy in the console wars (if they outsell the consoles.)
Like the GP2X? It runs Linux on dual 250MHz CPUs, has TV out, USB host and client hardware, and a whole slew of other wicked features.
A couple of years ago I bought a 1994 Chevy 3500 pickup truck on ebay for $3000. 260K miles, a CSX railroad maintenance truck. Original engine and transmission in impeccable condition. I put another ~50K miles on it and resold it for quite a bit more than I paid, well past the 300K mark.
I love calling the cops when someone drives, or even better PARKS, a tax-subsidized "small truck" SUV on my no-trucks-over-6000-pounds residential street. They learn their lesson quick.
One less than you have now told us. I have an implicit contract with all of my utility companies. They give me [something], I give them money in return. That's it, the bulk of our spoken and/or implicit agreement. If either of us want more out of the deal, it would need to be spelled out and signed.
I am too lazy to look it up or do the math... What would gravity be like on the surface of a (standard, earth-orbit) Dyson sphere? Are we talking about.1G or.0001G?
Did you know that computers all say how big file sizes and filesystem sizes in KB, MB, and GB, not some mumbling made up HD industry made up units (that they don't have to astroturf, unless you are paid to do so).
Yeah, right. Windows apps report one or the other virtually at random, with no indication of which it is. Most linux console apps have a separate -h and -H options for one or the other, and [a number greater than zero] of my linux GUI apps report in kiB and MiB. It get's even better when you talk about transfer speed. 1GB file over a 1Gb connection... Takes 8 seconds right? Oh, whats that? Maybe it takes 9 seconds? What does 1 second matter? How about if its 1TB over a 1Gb connection. 135 minutes or 150 minutes?
I think the hard drive industry might disagree with you. Everyone says it's just a recent marketting gimmick to cheat people out of space, but every HD I have ever bought, since 20MB was "huge", was rated in decimal multiples.
Oh yeah, DVDs are measured in decimal multiples too. 4.7GB == 4700000000B.
You're just on the losing side of a very long argument. It probably won't be over until English is history, but it will end in our favor eventually.
Efforts to redefine? I think you are mistaken. Megabyte has meant "one million bytes" for far longer than the word byte has even existed. I am still pondering why YOU are trying to redefine it to mean anything else.
Your misconception illustrates precisely why projects like this are awesome. No, the summary was not incorrect. They really did this in TWO MEBIBYTES. Two gigs would be completely non-impressive, you can fit any desktop linux distro in that. Doing it all without X in 1.44MB, with dozens of diagnostic tools, is common on rescue floppy distros. Adding an X server (*NOT* XFree or XOrg, mind you) in under 2MiB is impressive but not impossible.
The one copy on the hard drive (for installation) and the one copy in RAM (while running), each being "an essential step in the utilization of the computer program", are explicitly authorized by law, and again are not subject to Microsoft's control. clicky
Says who? Microsoft has no standing to tell me that I can or can not use their software. The right to use the software is not one reserved exclusively to the copyright holder. They have control over who copies it, who distributes those copies, who displays it publically, and who creates derivative works, but they have no control over who uses it. clicky
Then leave the union. If the district has a contract with the union, either move to a different district or find a group of parents willing to sue the district for entering into a contract contrary to the best interests of the students.
The article incorrectly states that Cedega costs $5/mo to use. The $5/mo is a subscription to the website, which allows access to the precompiled binaries and copy protection code, as well as voting in the "what games to support better" polls. You can pay $15 once (3 months), get a 3 month subscription, and use the program forever. It does not "expire" at the end of the 3 months, you just cant download new versions any more.
Q. Based upon your examination of the hard drive which you examined, what evidence did you find that inculpated Marie Lindor personally? A. Would you please define the second-to-last word. Q. "Her"? A. No, "inculpated." Would you please define that for me.
I have two issues with this bit. The first is small, it seems that the real question used "her" instead of "Marie Lindor" which was edited in afterwards, that is forgivable as a transcription issue. The second is more important. He says "second-to-last" but the word being discussed is not "her", it is the preceding word "inculpated". This tells me either there is a serious transcription error here, or both Q and A are using/taking "second-to-last" to mean the word third from the end of the question, which is almost certainly wrong.
I have been at my current "job" (read: contract position that comes with a desk and no set end date) for about 6 months now, a similar position to the original poster with increased salary offered for new positions ever 6ish months for the past few years (minimum wage then, $18/hr now, two offers on the table for $25ish but I like where I am now and the people I work with)... Your post made me chuckle because recently one of the guys at a desk across from mine got a watch and a pin from the company for 25 years of service. Different worlds, I guess.
Close, but no cigar. It is buggy and I am unable to play it on my own computer in my OS of choice. I have already played it plenty and know that I like it.
Vanguard combines what I believed to be the best of EQ1 and WoW, my two favorite MMORPGs to date. I have only two problems with it, or three if you count sub-problems. One, it is Windows only (and Wine GLSL doesnt handle it well, yet!). Two, it is buggy, but improving at a rapid rate. And three, one of the biggest bugs affects framerate causing the game to be unplayable on older hardware and less than desirably configurable on new hardware.
That said, I expect to play this game for at least a few months once I can, longer if my friends still play by then.
Win2k was my windows of choice up til the day I left windows behind (a few years ago). Faster and more stable than XP, with less network security holes.
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Buy with cash? What is this, 1980? If you insist... The only two 'official' importers in the USA are located in Yorba Linda, CA and Chicago, IL. I imagine if you care to visit them, instead of ordering online, they would be happy to take your cash.
As to English language games... There are only two "real" commercial games, Payback (port of a GBA game, very cool 3D GTA clone) and Vektar (retro top-down shooter something like Geometry Wars). But you make the serious mistake of assuming that you have to buy games. There are dozens of free games of commercial quality (Beats of Rage, Quake, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Ur Quan Masters, Super Mario War, and Tail Teiru come to mind), as well as great emulators for every platform up to SNES (and not so fast emulators for later platforms like PSX) which gives you a library of tens of thousands of games if you are willing to download ROMs (or just hundreds if you only download legal ROMs).
When someone gives us a handheld that has a video output that allows us to play the games on a television, then they can claim supremacy in the console wars (if they outsell the consoles.)
Like the GP2X? It runs Linux on dual 250MHz CPUs, has TV out, USB host and client hardware, and a whole slew of other wicked features.
A couple of years ago I bought a 1994 Chevy 3500 pickup truck on ebay for $3000. 260K miles, a CSX railroad maintenance truck. Original engine and transmission in impeccable condition. I put another ~50K miles on it and resold it for quite a bit more than I paid, well past the 300K mark.
They divided the Prius by 100k and the Hummer by ~300k.
I love calling the cops when someone drives, or even better PARKS, a tax-subsidized "small truck" SUV on my no-trucks-over-6000-pounds residential street. They learn their lesson quick.
Which is fine since 99% of "normal people" have never heard of J-Pop, and I doubt that Japanese IT professionals call it J-SOX.
One less than you have now told us. I have an implicit contract with all of my utility companies. They give me [something], I give them money in return. That's it, the bulk of our spoken and/or implicit agreement. If either of us want more out of the deal, it would need to be spelled out and signed.
I am too lazy to look it up or do the math... What would gravity be like on the surface of a (standard, earth-orbit) Dyson sphere? Are we talking about .1G or .0001G?
[Un]Fortunately, when I was hit with this by surprise at work yesterday, it failed to install. Hooray Microsoft!
I disagree. The spreadsheet program is also more than sufficient for anything short of macro-riddled corporate applications-in-spreadsheets.
In the same way the PowerPoint is far inferior to KeyNote
Did you know that computers all say how big file sizes and filesystem sizes in KB, MB, and GB, not some mumbling made up HD industry made up units (that they don't have to astroturf, unless you are paid to do so).
Yeah, right. Windows apps report one or the other virtually at random, with no indication of which it is. Most linux console apps have a separate -h and -H options for one or the other, and [a number greater than zero] of my linux GUI apps report in kiB and MiB. It get's even better when you talk about transfer speed. 1GB file over a 1Gb connection... Takes 8 seconds right? Oh, whats that? Maybe it takes 9 seconds? What does 1 second matter? How about if its 1TB over a 1Gb connection. 135 minutes or 150 minutes?
I think the hard drive industry might disagree with you. Everyone says it's just a recent marketting gimmick to cheat people out of space, but every HD I have ever bought, since 20MB was "huge", was rated in decimal multiples.
Oh yeah, DVDs are measured in decimal multiples too. 4.7GB == 4700000000B.
You're just on the losing side of a very long argument. It probably won't be over until English is history, but it will end in our favor eventually.
Efforts to redefine? I think you are mistaken. Megabyte has meant "one million bytes" for far longer than the word byte has even existed. I am still pondering why YOU are trying to redefine it to mean anything else.
Your misconception illustrates precisely why projects like this are awesome. No, the summary was not incorrect. They really did this in TWO MEBIBYTES. Two gigs would be completely non-impressive, you can fit any desktop linux distro in that. Doing it all without X in 1.44MB, with dozens of diagnostic tools, is common on rescue floppy distros. Adding an X server (*NOT* XFree or XOrg, mind you) in under 2MiB is impressive but not impossible.
The one copy on the hard drive (for installation) and the one copy in RAM (while running), each being "an essential step in the utilization of the computer program", are explicitly authorized by law, and again are not subject to Microsoft's control. clicky
Says who? Microsoft has no standing to tell me that I can or can not use their software. The right to use the software is not one reserved exclusively to the copyright holder. They have control over who copies it, who distributes those copies, who displays it publically, and who creates derivative works, but they have no control over who uses it. clicky
Then leave the union. If the district has a contract with the union, either move to a different district or find a group of parents willing to sue the district for entering into a contract contrary to the best interests of the students.
The article incorrectly states that Cedega costs $5/mo to use. The $5/mo is a subscription to the website, which allows access to the precompiled binaries and copy protection code, as well as voting in the "what games to support better" polls. You can pay $15 once (3 months), get a 3 month subscription, and use the program forever. It does not "expire" at the end of the 3 months, you just cant download new versions any more.
Why didn't she just work for less? If I was out of work and no one would hire me for my normal rate, I would take a position that paid less.
I have two issues with this bit. The first is small, it seems that the real question used "her" instead of "Marie Lindor" which was edited in afterwards, that is forgivable as a transcription issue. The second is more important. He says "second-to-last" but the word being discussed is not "her", it is the preceding word "inculpated". This tells me either there is a serious transcription error here, or both Q and A are using/taking "second-to-last" to mean the word third from the end of the question, which is almost certainly wrong.
Wouldn't the 'equatorial' orbit be coplanar with the rings, not parallel?
I have been at my current "job" (read: contract position that comes with a desk and no set end date) for about 6 months now, a similar position to the original poster with increased salary offered for new positions ever 6ish months for the past few years (minimum wage then, $18/hr now, two offers on the table for $25ish but I like where I am now and the people I work with)... Your post made me chuckle because recently one of the guys at a desk across from mine got a watch and a pin from the company for 25 years of service. Different worlds, I guess.
Close, but no cigar. It is buggy and I am unable to play it on my own computer in my OS of choice. I have already played it plenty and know that I like it.
Vanguard combines what I believed to be the best of EQ1 and WoW, my two favorite MMORPGs to date. I have only two problems with it, or three if you count sub-problems. One, it is Windows only (and Wine GLSL doesnt handle it well, yet!). Two, it is buggy, but improving at a rapid rate. And three, one of the biggest bugs affects framerate causing the game to be unplayable on older hardware and less than desirably configurable on new hardware.
That said, I expect to play this game for at least a few months once I can, longer if my friends still play by then.
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Win2k was my windows of choice up til the day I left windows behind (a few years ago). Faster and more stable than XP, with less network security holes.