In the case of renting an apartment, I don't see a problem with this. You lease apartments in the same way you lease an automobile, and I don't know of too many dealers who don't check your credit before you drive off with a leased car. Depending upon state/local laws, it is very hard to kick out a deadbeat tenant.
I agree with all of your other points wholeheartedly.
This sounds like something that I could get into while relaxing on the couch with my wireless iBook (12" G4/800 model with 32meg ATI Radeon Mobility chipset& 384 megs system DDR). The official web site specs the Mac version of WoW above my iBook, but this review indicates that the game is not too graphics intensive. Can someone give me the straight poop on how well this game would play on my little iBook?
Yes on both counts. Audiobooks on iTMS are the same ones offered through Audible.com and the iTunes/iPod player software is designed to handle bookmarking your audiobooks. I only bought one for $8 (Benjamin Franklin, Citizen)...most of the other good ones are terribly expensive IMO.
"Since the US signed the Moon Treaty, no US citizen may claim ownership on any part of the moon."
Yes and no. If you define "ownership" as "ability to enforce property rights," then no one may claim ownership on any part of the moon, given current technology. However, in the future, people will be able to go to the moon and sustain an existence there. If those people can hold their land and defend it (that's how you own things), then they can certainly claim ownership.
I believe the demo in question was done with BeOS, as the parent had specifically mentioned the OS's "journal." BeOS used a journaling filesystem that would allow you to pick up if the power went away. That, and I remember reading about the demo a while ago when BeOS was all the rage. Not to say that EROS couldn't do the same, of course.
The tragic part (at least from this American's point of view) is that the whole IRA/British conflict is taking place in an area no bigger than what...Pennsylvania, Montana perhaps?
I used iTunes (on Mac and PC) for almost a year before getting an iPod. I would just listen to music on my computers or burn CDs for the car. The number of Linux users using iPods is IMO immaterial compared to the market at large.
Also, you don't need to use iTunes Music Store to use iTunes...in fact the music store came out well after the release of iTunes. The preferences menu lets you hide the Music Store button if you don't want to use it ever.
I knew I couldn't have been the only one that does that! Since I like to play Starcraft on the couch or in bed with my iBook, using the CD image saves me precious battery power since I don't need to put the disk in the drive all the time.
There are similar solutions for Windows users, btw. I think one of the more popular (because it's free) options is Daemon Tools (too lazy to create href):
Gmail...yeah, that's what you don't want them to see;)
I do the same thing with Firefox, PuTTY and my SSH server at home running Squid...but it's important to point out that you can do the same thing with Internet Explorer or Opera...every major browser lets you point it at a proxy server. OTOH, I think Opera lets you do it in a more convenient fashion...hit F12 to bring up a "Quick Preferences" popup and you can toggle whether or not you want to use your proxy.
Technically, what I am doing is exporting to a spreadsheet. The Bloomberg database is a huge frickin Oracle database. They provide add-ins to Excel to let me call up the data I'm looking for and dump it into the spreadsheet. For what I'm doing with the data at my office, keeping it in yet another database would be overkill, as the final product is two tables and two charts that are presented in a report. A few simple Excel functions does all I need and four weeks of data for a month is less than 4 megs.
I'm an "INDIRECT" junkie, myself. One of my jobs is to maintain a weekly snapshot of the universe of closed end funds (all 678 of them this week). Each week's worth of data (pulled in from a Bloomberg feed using the BLP function) is kept in a flat table in Excel with all the fields one would typically examine.
Each table of data is named for the week, ie "11-12-2004". The INDIRECT function lets a user type in the date he/she needs to look at and the model will pull in the data from the appropriate tab.
Or, using a combination of INDIRECT and MATCH, I can take two tables of data from two different sources and merge them together, as long as both tables have one column of roughly similar data (ie a list of names or serial numbers).
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In the case of renting an apartment, I don't see a problem with this. You lease apartments in the same way you lease an automobile, and I don't know of too many dealers who don't check your credit before you drive off with a leased car. Depending upon state/local laws, it is very hard to kick out a deadbeat tenant.
I agree with all of your other points wholeheartedly.
In Korea only old people think the joke is getting REALLY old man!
"...any tech that means fewer soldiers have to die..."
Fewer of ours, more of theirs...OOH RAH!
"I know the game is completely playable on this dated setup. 1.2Ghz Athlon TBird 256MB PC100 ATI Radeon 9000"
:)
That's a little below the specs of my PC laptop, which performs sort of on par with my iBook. Thanks
This sounds like something that I could get into while relaxing on the couch with my wireless iBook (12" G4/800 model with 32meg ATI Radeon Mobility chipset& 384 megs system DDR). The official web site specs the Mac version of WoW above my iBook, but this review indicates that the game is not too graphics intensive. Can someone give me the straight poop on how well this game would play on my little iBook?
I'm pretty sure you can only charge an iPod through a 6-pin Firewire port (or with an AC adapter).
Yes on both counts. Audiobooks on iTMS are the same ones offered through Audible.com and the iTunes/iPod player software is designed to handle bookmarking your audiobooks. I only bought one for $8 (Benjamin Franklin, Citizen)...most of the other good ones are terribly expensive IMO.
Yeah, in Soviet^H^H^H^H^H^H Korea anyways!
If your PC runs Linux, would you get baby penguins? If your PC runs Free BSD, would the ground become possessed by daemons?
"Since the US signed the Moon Treaty, no US citizen may claim ownership on any part of the moon."
Yes and no. If you define "ownership" as "ability to enforce property rights," then no one may claim ownership on any part of the moon, given current technology. However, in the future, people will be able to go to the moon and sustain an existence there. If those people can hold their land and defend it (that's how you own things), then they can certainly claim ownership.
I believe the demo in question was done with BeOS, as the parent had specifically mentioned the OS's "journal." BeOS used a journaling filesystem that would allow you to pick up if the power went away. That, and I remember reading about the demo a while ago when BeOS was all the rage. Not to say that EROS couldn't do the same, of course.
Hence the new iPod clickwheel.
Not adding enough coolant to prevent the web server from melting down due to the /. effect.
The tragic part (at least from this American's point of view) is that the whole IRA/British conflict is taking place in an area no bigger than what...Pennsylvania, Montana perhaps?
I used iTunes (on Mac and PC) for almost a year before getting an iPod. I would just listen to music on my computers or burn CDs for the car. The number of Linux users using iPods is IMO immaterial compared to the market at large.
Also, you don't need to use iTunes Music Store to use iTunes...in fact the music store came out well after the release of iTunes. The preferences menu lets you hide the Music Store button if you don't want to use it ever.
This thread is useless without pics!!!
(You'll just have to imagine the little dancing smileys holding up the sign.)
I knew I couldn't have been the only one that does that! Since I like to play Starcraft on the couch or in bed with my iBook, using the CD image saves me precious battery power since I don't need to put the disk in the drive all the time.
t oo ls/daemon_tools.cfm
There are similar solutions for Windows users, btw. I think one of the more popular (because it's free) options is Daemon Tools (too lazy to create href):
http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_
You insensitive clod!
Gmail...yeah, that's what you don't want them to see ;)
I do the same thing with Firefox, PuTTY and my SSH server at home running Squid...but it's important to point out that you can do the same thing with Internet Explorer or Opera...every major browser lets you point it at a proxy server. OTOH, I think Opera lets you do it in a more convenient fashion...hit F12 to bring up a "Quick Preferences" popup and you can toggle whether or not you want to use your proxy.
The first reaction I had when I read the subject of your post was, "how hard is it to run a fucking vacuum through the Oval Office now and then?"
"It's weird , interesting and depressing to see how much your own solid convictions will shift when a buck is at stake...."
Just sounds like you have poor morals.
Technically, what I am doing is exporting to a spreadsheet. The Bloomberg database is a huge frickin Oracle database. They provide add-ins to Excel to let me call up the data I'm looking for and dump it into the spreadsheet. For what I'm doing with the data at my office, keeping it in yet another database would be overkill, as the final product is two tables and two charts that are presented in a report. A few simple Excel functions does all I need and four weeks of data for a month is less than 4 megs.
I'm an "INDIRECT" junkie, myself. One of my jobs is to maintain a weekly snapshot of the universe of closed end funds (all 678 of them this week). Each week's worth of data (pulled in from a Bloomberg feed using the BLP function) is kept in a flat table in Excel with all the fields one would typically examine.
Each table of data is named for the week, ie "11-12-2004". The INDIRECT function lets a user type in the date he/she needs to look at and the model will pull in the data from the appropriate tab.
Or, using a combination of INDIRECT and MATCH, I can take two tables of data from two different sources and merge them together, as long as both tables have one column of roughly similar data (ie a list of names or serial numbers).
Because it sounds better than calling it "SkyGopher."
AFAIK, Steam already works under Cedega, from what I've read on their site. This is to get HL2 working now.