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Wow, completely missed the section of the article where he clearly says he *ran* said Upgrade adviser (which is what led to a Graphics card update among a few other things) but that he later still had problems with unsupported/non-functional hardware the adviser didn't give a peep about, huh? Give you a hint... second part of the article after "A blunt message"... starts with "But this was probably not enough, so I downloaded Microsoft's Vista Upgrade Advisor."
Are you talking about the graphics problem on Dantooine where out in the fields the games suddenly goes so sluggish as to be unplayable?
If so, make sure you have patch 1.03 and add Disable Vertex Buffer Objects = 1 under [Graphics Options] in the swkotor.ini file in the game root directory. Worked like a charm for me (not sure where I read about it, and this was a year ago.. so I don't have a URL for you) -- the only other major bug I can think of is that God-awful corruption/crash when you go to save (including the auto-save when you enter/exit areas). Only solution for that I know of is to save to 2 different savefiles early and often....
It is just you. The Ent-E went 100% digital in later movies (I believe Insurrection was fully digital -- could have been a mix, though... certainly Nemesis was), but used a physical model in First Contact. Presumably, that was the version auctioned off.
I normally hate these "me too!" style posts -- but someone mod parent up. That summary should be edited into the./ overview and the description amended.
From that article, it really sounds like from the Copyright Office's point-of-view (which granted, has its own bias), this is a simplification. They in fact claim that separate copies currently require separate licensing to be accounted for -- this will remove that need by allowing distributors/streamers to be covered for all transitory copies (caching/whatnot in distribution) or stream fragments. Put that way, the bill makes a lot of sense to me.
What's much more interesting is the section on Designated Agents. If this doesn't scream "lock the RIAA into their position via legal means", I don't know what does. Agents get to use royalties collected for tangential purposes such as legislation and "industry negotiations".. sheesh guys -- why not just add in "Designated Agents will receive services from suitably nubile copyright holders at will" while you're at it. Oh and the "Agent is the sole judge of auditing whether a liscencee has underpaid an agent" is really cute too... I appreciate the Copyright Office calling these jokers out on this... let's hope Congress pays attention to them.
One thing the summary glosses over that bugs me, though:
Digital music services need to be able to obtain licenses to cover all the musical works that they wish to make available. The SIRA addresses this issue by including a default provision that grants statutory authority to the General Designated Agent ("GDA") to license any works not specifically represented by an additional designated agent. Since each agent is required to make available a list of the musical works it is authorized to license for digital uses and any works not affirmatively identified may be presumed to be covered by the GDA's license, a licensee is not only assured that it has the ability to secure rights to all musical works, but it also has the necessary information to determine from whom to secure rights for a particular work as well.
Does that read to anyone else as locking those agents with "significant marketshare" as the only gatekeepers of said blanket licensing (previously established as needed for distribution in this revised model)... which makes me wonder how individual independant artists (those who don't wish to be affiliated with a General Designated Agent) would go about licensing their work to iTunes or whatnot. If they're now effectively represented by a GDA (read RIAA and the like) whether they want to be or not... then I have to read this as a powergrab by the RIAA to ensure they maintain their position as the gatekeepers of distribution (now in the digital age), with all artists having to sign with them. Maybe I've just gotten too cynical..
Take, for example, the right to bare arms is guaranteed by the Constitution. Can you bare arms on an airplane? Of course not. Can you bare arms in your local bar or city hall? Nope. How about free speech protection in a crowded theatre or in a case of perjury or libel? These rights are spelled out clearly in the Constitution with no wiggle room what-so-ever. "The right to free speech shall not be infringed" period. Yet I can not say anything I want anywhere I want.
Sorry to break this to you -- but I've boarded an airplane wearing a T-shirt before.
Perhaps you were worried about your bare arms when arming bears?
And the underlying National Hurricane Center data is biased for a political agenda, how?
Disagree with JunkScience's analysis if you wish (I posted that URL mainly because it has several links to interesting NOAA data), but you should back it up with your own analysis or dispute the underlying data.
What pattern of slow, continual growth are you getting? Backup your assertions.
As a counterpoint, I'd point you at: http://www.junkscience.com/Hurricanes/Hurricanes.h tm, which granted dates to 2004 -- but certainly a "slow, continual growth" pattern where 2005 isn't a freak year would show up in that data.
More importantly, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml has the raw data. I tend to agree with the JunkScience analysis of it, which implies that we're simply on the rising edge of the cycle coming out of a lull.
Back on point, there are some who are desensitized by wiping out virtual opponents (I get the urge to take out newts and hope for the mild buzz, myself...:) ) -- but if the game is rated Mature and the stores are required to card people who are buying it then either there are some terribly impressionable 18+ year olds out there who haven't found their cult yet... or some parents need to do a better job of screening what they buy their kids. Neither scenario means that we need the government involved.
That link is just about 11.0 going into "support only" mode this year, and end-of-life in 2006. Hardly surprising since 11i v1.0 (11.11) has been around since 2000 to replace it... [not to mention 11i v2.0 for IPF and PA this year, with 11i v3.0 upcoming].
That's like saying that MS has done away with Windows as a whole just because they want to stop supporting Win98.
Unfortunately he gets left back in the 1970's as a child during yet another time jaunt.
Everything works out though -- they showed Data doing some research that showed he had a successful career hosting a pseudo-news show on a comedy "television" network, though he only went by Jon at that point.
Interesting spin on this -- didn't this already get hashed out in this prior article that the capsule may well be more a "Right tool for the right job" issue?
It basically boiled down to aerodynamic control surfaces allow you to control your landing more precisely, but introduce a *lot* of complexity and weight (increasing your launch cost) as with the present Shuttle. A capsule based approach can be done much more simply but has issues to work out in the landing (ocean landing is probably easy in this day and age -- no need for a Carrier Task Force for every pick up... except when the trajectory is off for some reason and you move a couple of hundred miles... land is also doable).
All that aside -- this isn't the design contest for the USS Discovery. This is for a cheap, stable orbital taxi effectively. If a more "backwards" design gets NASA up and back cheaper, it seems to me that this makes what should be the *next* steps easier (building some type of assembly station in orbit or getting back to the Moon..) and that's where the steps forward should be taken.
Hmm... I'm hoping you're not a US citizen, because if you are -- you really slept through civics, didn't you?
2002 did not feature a presidential election. The presidential election cycle is 4 years, so the next one is in 2004. Bush is still in his first term.
The House has elections every two years, and the Senators have a six year election cycle (but are 'staggered' so that 1/3 of the Senate is in an election cycle every two years). Perhaps you meant that the reasonably strong Republican showing in the 2002 elections was a good sign for Bush... I doubt it, but that's the most generous interpretation I could give you.
Please do us a favor and report back when you have disposed of all the undecayed Carbon 14 isotopes in your area, as they must be treated as hazardous material.
You could start with the trees, but a Darwin Award approach may be appropriate.
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Since the batteries in question are going to be beta emitters, I really don't think this is going to be classifiable as even low-level rad waste.
Offtopic, I know... but just off the top of my head:
Blowgun/dart (probably poisonous) Slingshot Compound bow and arrow (pretty good range on those, you know) Remote triggered device (bomb, dart/spear/whatnot payload, etc.) Virus Bomb on a timer or a tripwire Pungi sticks (of couse, digging the pit is a little conspicuous..:) ) Radio controlled airplane with small missiles/bombs/whatnot. Vicious animals trained to attack N yards/miles away (dogs, probably... heck train a chimp to conceal a knife and attack)
I'm not saying all (or many) of those are particularly likely or as efficient as a scoped rifle... but let's be honest. Humans have been working out new ways to kill from out of range of their target for millenia -- removing one weapon from a list of possibilities will NOT make the task impossible, or even make it impossible to not get caught.
I... uh... can't. I understand the concept of trying to sell software to make a living, but I don't support it. I sell my services as a programmer to make a living and give away the code.
Hmm... so your economic model for your employers would be:
1) Conceive idea for new tool/features in existing tool.
2) Pay for programmer to code ideas.
3) Don't sell the tool -- give it away!
4) ???
5) Profit!
Seriously - I am very curious where you expect those paying you to get the money from in the first place? I fully understand and support the 'hobbyist' programmer who makes money in some other fashion (inheritance, programming at another job, etc.) and who gives away code just for the joy of seeing people appreciate the effort or idea -- but somehow the bills have to be paid.
He probably doesn't seem to understand it because what you said doesn't follow at all.
What he said was "Use what works - and if nothing does, either write your own or help out those who _are_ writing what you need" (loose paraphrasing).
There's nothing implying that _only_ non-Free software will fill your needs, nor is there anything implying that people will automagically stop writing Free software just because someone is willing to pay for a non-Free piece they feel does the job better. You seem to be implying that everyone should use only Free software - regardless of the competence of the software for the task at hand, and frankly - that's either just silly or you need to look in the mirror and confess that you've become a zealot.
If there's a need for a piece of software, someone will write it. If it is someone who believes in Free (and presumably not necessarily free unless they have a day job) software, they write it and it fits the need, people will use it.
The _November_ exam is cancelled worldwide (as is the April). There will still be a December exam in all countries except China and India.
So US students are not as affected (they still can take an exam this winter), though I would expect the slots to fill up quickly if any are left at all by now.
Car A is happily driving the speed limit. Car B zooms up behind A going 2X A's speed.
In your scenario, A now speeds up to B's speed to make B feel all warm and fuzzy (of course, the twits who would go 2x the speed limit on a WINDING COUNTY ROAD where someone would be Sunday driving are also likely to have some psychotic reaction just because they see a bumper instead of open road... but we won't go into that).
C now zooms up behind B (and therefore A) going 1.5 times the NEW speed (because C is a complete moron or high or something). Should B and A both speed up now? Where does it end? When A flies off the curve up ahead into flaming death?When they redline their engines and blow a few seals (not like Kip Adotta)?
Oh... B and A should stop at the speed they feel they can handle and the road is good for?
That's what A was doing in the first place.
In other words, stop wanting everyone to go your speed and let them go their own.
This message firmly dedicated to the two morons who passed me on a double yellow, winding mountain road with crappy visibility because I was only going 52 in a 45 -- and they felt like going 70.
Seems to me that if these people were taking the Vatican's teachings to heart as you say, the epidemic would be over in a generation or two.
Or did you forget that HUGE chunk on no sex until marriage and stay faithful after that? Yes, it won't solve everything (transmission via blood banks, mother/child transmission, etc.) but that's definately going to put a big crimp in things -- and makes the contraception issue much more reasonable.
Well, I live just a bit west of Morgan Hill. I was already awake when it hit since our cats and dog were going nuts -- you can debate if they sensed the quake coming if you like... they _always_ run around like nut cases between 9-11pm:)
At any rate - being a transplant from the East Coast, I really wasn't sure it _was_ a quake until I saw the news this morning. The house quivered and shook a bit as if there had been a really strong gust of wind (one 'larger' one, then a more minor shake). My first instinct was to look for the thunderstorm... my second for the plane causing the sonic boom.
No damage - didn't even knock over a ladder leaning against the house outside.
According to my wife (she watched the local news this morning):
South San Jose had 1 house burn down - apparently a gas line to the furnace snapped and ignited.
Gilroy shops are going to have 'Earthquake sales' - dubious reasons except for glass shops and the Gilroy Wal*Mart -- the quake set off the sprinklers there... you can imagine what that does to the clothing sections..
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Wow, completely missed the section of the article where he clearly says he *ran* said Upgrade adviser (which is what led to a Graphics card update among a few other things) but that he later still had problems with unsupported/non-functional hardware the adviser didn't give a peep about, huh? Give you a hint... second part of the article after "A blunt message"... starts with "But this was probably not enough, so I downloaded Microsoft's Vista Upgrade Advisor."
Sheesh.
Are you talking about the graphics problem on Dantooine where out in the fields the games suddenly goes so sluggish as to be unplayable?
If so, make sure you have patch 1.03 and add Disable Vertex Buffer Objects = 1 under [Graphics Options] in the swkotor.ini file in the game root directory.
Worked like a charm for me (not sure where I read about it, and this was a year ago.. so I don't have a URL for you) -- the only other major bug I can think of is that God-awful corruption/crash when you go to save (including the auto-save when you enter/exit areas). Only solution for that I know of is to save to 2 different savefiles early and often....
It is just you. The Ent-E went 100% digital in later movies (I believe Insurrection was fully digital -- could have been a mix, though... certainly Nemesis was), but used a physical model in First Contact. Presumably, that was the version auctioned off.
Good reason to look more at the 2605n then. The HPLIP drivers support that one:l or_laser.html
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/co
From that article, it really sounds like from the Copyright Office's point-of-view (which granted, has its own bias), this is a simplification. They in fact claim that separate copies currently require separate licensing to be accounted for -- this will remove that need by allowing distributors/streamers to be covered for all transitory copies (caching/whatnot in distribution) or stream fragments. Put that way, the bill makes a lot of sense to me.
What's much more interesting is the section on Designated Agents. If this doesn't scream "lock the RIAA into their position via legal means", I don't know what does. Agents get to use royalties collected for tangential purposes such as legislation and "industry negotiations".. sheesh guys -- why not just add in "Designated Agents will receive services from suitably nubile copyright holders at will" while you're at it. Oh and the "Agent is the sole judge of auditing whether a liscencee has underpaid an agent" is really cute too... I appreciate the Copyright Office calling these jokers out on this... let's hope Congress pays attention to them.
One thing the summary glosses over that bugs me, though:
Does that read to anyone else as locking those agents with "significant marketshare" as the only gatekeepers of said blanket licensing (previously established as needed for distribution in this revised model)... which makes me wonder how individual independant artists (those who don't wish to be affiliated with a General Designated Agent) would go about licensing their work to iTunes or whatnot. If they're now effectively represented by a GDA (read RIAA and the like) whether they want to be or not... then I have to read this as a powergrab by the RIAA to ensure they maintain their position as the gatekeepers of distribution (now in the digital age), with all artists having to sign with them. Maybe I've just gotten too cynical..
Sorry to break this to you -- but I've boarded an airplane wearing a T-shirt before.
Perhaps you were worried about your bare arms when arming bears?
And the underlying National Hurricane Center data is biased for a political agenda, how?
Disagree with JunkScience's analysis if you wish (I posted that URL mainly because it has several links to interesting NOAA data), but you should back it up with your own analysis or dispute the underlying data.
What pattern of slow, continual growth are you getting? Backup your assertions.
h tm, which granted dates to 2004 -- but certainly a "slow, continual growth" pattern where 2005 isn't a freak year would show up in that data.
As a counterpoint, I'd point you at:
http://www.junkscience.com/Hurricanes/Hurricanes.
More importantly, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml has the raw data. I tend to agree with the JunkScience analysis of it, which implies that we're simply on the rising edge of the cycle coming out of a lull.
People do think of this, Kevin Smith's "Clerks" movie being the best example I've heard of:
:) ) -- but if the game is rated Mature and the stores are required to card people who are buying it then either there are some terribly impressionable 18+ year olds out there who haven't found their cult yet... or some parents need to do a better job of screening what they buy their kids. Neither scenario means that we need the government involved.
http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html
Back on point, there are some who are desensitized by wiping out virtual opponents (I get the urge to take out newts and hope for the mild buzz, myself...
I don't know what qualifies as "adamant" to you -- but the Catholic Church has what seems to me to be a consistent position.
Queue the Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" quoters, I'm sure... but the Church is logical enough starting from their base assumptions.
"No more HPUX"...
That link is just about 11.0 going into "support only" mode this year, and end-of-life in 2006. Hardly surprising since 11i v1.0 (11.11) has been around since 2000 to replace it... [not to mention 11i v2.0 for IPF and PA this year, with 11i v3.0 upcoming].
That's like saying that MS has done away with Windows as a whole just because they want to stop supporting Win98.
Unfortunately he gets left back in the 1970's as a child during yet another time jaunt.
Everything works out though -- they showed Data doing some research that showed he had a successful career hosting a pseudo-news show on a comedy "television" network, though he only went by Jon at that point.
Interesting spin on this -- didn't this already get hashed out in this prior article that the capsule may well be more a "Right tool for the right job" issue?
It basically boiled down to aerodynamic control surfaces allow you to control your landing more precisely, but introduce a *lot* of complexity and weight (increasing your launch cost) as with the present Shuttle. A capsule based approach can be done much more simply but has issues to work out in the landing (ocean landing is probably easy in this day and age -- no need for a Carrier Task Force for every pick up... except when the trajectory is off for some reason and you move a couple of hundred miles... land is also doable).
All that aside -- this isn't the design contest for the USS Discovery. This is for a cheap, stable orbital taxi effectively. If a more "backwards" design gets NASA up and back cheaper, it seems to me that this makes what should be the *next* steps easier (building some type of assembly station in orbit or getting back to the Moon..) and that's where the steps forward should be taken.
Wow... don't tell that to my Warp 4 box back home. I've made 45Gb HPFS partitions (big shared network drive for my home LAN) without issue.
Hmm... I'm hoping you're not a US citizen, because if you are -- you really slept through civics, didn't you?
2002 did not feature a presidential election. The presidential election cycle is 4 years, so the next one is in 2004. Bush is still in his first term.
The House has elections every two years, and the Senators have a six year election cycle (but are 'staggered' so that 1/3 of the Senate is in an election cycle every two years). Perhaps you meant that the reasonably strong Republican showing in the 2002 elections was a good sign for Bush... I doubt it, but that's the most generous interpretation I could give you.
Please do us a favor and report back when you have disposed of all the undecayed Carbon 14 isotopes in your area, as they must be treated as hazardous material.
You could start with the trees, but a Darwin Award approach may be appropriate.
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Since the batteries in question are going to be beta emitters, I really don't think this is going to be classifiable as even low-level rad waste.
Superman / Doomsday, actually.
:)
Not the most creative of titles.
Offtopic, I know... but just off the top of my head:
:) )
Blowgun/dart (probably poisonous)
Slingshot
Compound bow and arrow (pretty good range on those, you know)
Remote triggered device (bomb, dart/spear/whatnot payload, etc.)
Virus
Bomb on a timer or a tripwire
Pungi sticks (of couse, digging the pit is a little conspicuous..
Radio controlled airplane with small missiles/bombs/whatnot.
Vicious animals trained to attack N yards/miles away (dogs, probably... heck train a chimp to conceal a knife and attack)
I'm not saying all (or many) of those are particularly likely or as efficient as a scoped rifle... but let's be honest. Humans have been working out new ways to kill from out of range of their target for millenia -- removing one weapon from a list of possibilities will NOT make the task impossible, or even make it impossible to not get caught.
They're just learning from historical precedent... sounds just like Iran-Contra to me...
Hmm... so your economic model for your employers would be:
1) Conceive idea for new tool/features in existing tool.
2) Pay for programmer to code ideas.
3) Don't sell the tool -- give it away!
4) ???
5) Profit!
Seriously - I am very curious where you expect those paying you to get the money from in the first place? I fully understand and support the 'hobbyist' programmer who makes money in some other fashion (inheritance, programming at another job, etc.) and who gives away code just for the joy of seeing people appreciate the effort or idea -- but somehow the bills have to be paid.
He probably doesn't seem to understand it because what you said doesn't follow at all.
What he said was "Use what works - and if nothing does, either write your own or help out those who _are_ writing what you need" (loose paraphrasing).
There's nothing implying that _only_ non-Free software will fill your needs, nor is there anything implying that people will automagically stop writing Free software just because someone is willing to pay for a non-Free piece they feel does the job better. You seem to be implying that everyone should use only Free software - regardless of the competence of the software for the task at hand, and frankly - that's either just silly or you need to look in the mirror and confess that you've become a zealot.
If there's a need for a piece of software, someone will write it. If it is someone who believes in Free (and presumably not necessarily free unless they have a day job) software, they write it and it fits the need, people will use it.
You're both right.
The _November_ exam is cancelled worldwide (as is the April). There will still be a December exam in all countries except China and India.
So US students are not as affected (they still can take an exam this winter), though I would expect the slots to fill up quickly if any are left at all by now.
There's just one flaw in this argument.
Car A is happily driving the speed limit.
Car B zooms up behind A going 2X A's speed.
In your scenario, A now speeds up to B's speed to make B feel all warm and fuzzy (of course, the twits who would go 2x the speed limit on a WINDING COUNTY ROAD where someone would be Sunday driving are also likely to have some psychotic reaction just because they see a bumper instead of open road... but we won't go into that).
C now zooms up behind B (and therefore A) going 1.5 times the NEW speed (because C is a complete moron or high or something). Should B and A both speed up now? Where does it end? When A flies off the curve up ahead into flaming death?When they redline their engines and blow a few seals (not like Kip Adotta)?
Oh... B and A should stop at the speed they feel they can handle and the road is good for?
That's what A was doing in the first place.
In other words, stop wanting everyone to go your speed and let them go their own.
This message firmly dedicated to the two morons who passed me on a double yellow, winding mountain road with crappy visibility because I was only going 52 in a 45 -- and they felt like going 70.
Seems to me that if these people were taking the Vatican's teachings to heart as you say, the epidemic would be over in a generation or two.
Or did you forget that HUGE chunk on no sex until marriage and stay faithful after that? Yes, it won't solve everything (transmission via blood banks, mother/child transmission, etc.) but that's definately going to put a big crimp in things -- and makes the contraception issue much more reasonable.
Well, I live just a bit west of Morgan Hill. I was already awake when it hit since our cats and dog were going nuts -- you can debate if they sensed the quake coming if you like... they _always_ run around like nut cases between 9-11pm :)
At any rate - being a transplant from the East Coast, I really wasn't sure it _was_ a quake until I saw the news this morning. The house quivered and shook a bit as if there had been a really strong gust of wind (one 'larger' one, then a more minor shake). My first instinct was to look for the thunderstorm... my second for the plane causing the sonic boom.
No damage - didn't even knock over a ladder leaning against the house outside.
According to my wife (she watched the local news this morning):
South San Jose had 1 house burn down - apparently a gas line to the furnace snapped and ignited.
Gilroy shops are going to have 'Earthquake sales' - dubious reasons except for glass shops and the Gilroy Wal*Mart -- the quake set off the sprinklers there... you can imagine what that does to the clothing sections..