(I forget the name offhand, but it was discovered in a research facility in the US).
Ebola Reston (named for Reston, VA) was the strain if I remember The Hot Zone correctly. Good book too. the opening chapter describing someone crashing and bleeding out are pretty intense.
The company I work for is already helping, they've donated voice lines and bandwidth for the red cross and other agencies at the various shelters.
Kind of impressive to see SBC deliver a bundle of T1's in about 12 hours for these sites. I still think they should be taking the legacy IT gear that we have here and setting it up for the people in the shelters so they can send email, keep in contact with family, etc.
as a matter of fact, I've received almost $200 in rebate checks in the last 3 weeks alone.. $100 for my cell phones from Cingular, iomagic, intuit, etc..
Sure, it takes more like 12-14 weeks instead of the 6-8 they promise. the IOMagic rebate was more than 4 months old..
Only rebate I ever had a problem with was a $100 rebate on a laptop from Tiger Direct, but after a few emails and irate phone calls, they're processing the rebate now..
The big thing is you need to keep copies of EVERYTHING. receipts, completed rebate forms, etc. I even date the photocopies and store them in case I either dont get a rebate, or I get a letter saying I "forgot" something. usually sending copies of everything I sent them with a sternly worded letter clears that right up..
I've also found that if you go someplace like Office Depot or officemax, they'll offer a substitute item if they're out of stock for the price AFTER the rebate, so, sometimes it pays to wait a day or 2 and not be there banging on the door sunday morning..
I think Dan should be better remembered for Modem Wars, Possibly the very first online RTS than MULE.
It was great fun playing against a friend of mine in MI who was possibly the best MW player out there on my C64 at 2400 baud.
I dont watch movies on my G4 anyway. If I want to watch a movie, I watch it on my TV where I can be comfortable. But I do enjoy the lack of DRM on my mac.
Not really. Almost all the hardcore gamers I know use Speakeasy.net or any other provider that will allow them to get a static IP and run servers, so they can provide services like GTV and shoutcast feeds for live commentary on the matches. TSN whores for speakeasy quite alot, simply because their gamer packages kick ass.
No, I'm not a speakeasy customer.
My blanket statement mostly applied to gamers, not just generic DSL connections. If the gamer has the cash to drop on a Geforce4 Ti4600, more than likely he has a decent DSL connection.
After a certain number of violations, sure. Look at anti-spam organizations that do the same thing on a much larger scale like SPEWS. They blacklist larger blocks than/24. Now this isnt on the same legality level as spam, but it sure is just as annoying.
Too many violations from that IP range? Ban the/24 it came from. Send back a "Too many cheaters from your ISP" error.
MACs are too easily changed, but then again, so are IP's. But considering most gamers have DSL with a static IP, an IP ban is a much better option.
They dont have to interoperate or open the protocol, because in the merger agreement, it was said if they offer "next-gen messaging, such as real time video" then they have to, but AOL has *NO* intention of doing that. IM is now all it's ever going to be, text-based chat.
So, cry antitrust all you want, but it's all there in the merger agreement.
I really enjoy my cube, I've had it for like 3 months now ($1300 total for Cube and Monitor), and with the new Geforce2MX-ADC on the way, I'll be quartz extreming all over the place:)
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I'd personally go for a nice old fashioned Guru Meditation Error. :) *Digs around his garage for his A500*
Uhm, ok, maybe a few years ago the Razor was hot shit, but I think more kids this year are whining for a 360.
The company I work for is already helping, they've donated voice lines and bandwidth for the red cross and other agencies at the various shelters. Kind of impressive to see SBC deliver a bundle of T1's in about 12 hours for these sites. I still think they should be taking the legacy IT gear that we have here and setting it up for the people in the shelters so they can send email, keep in contact with family, etc.
Am I the only person that read that as "Chinese and Taiwanese Pimps"?
So how much are they? can they undercut apple but a significant amount?
even if they're a blatant ripoff, I'd buy one if they were cheap.
as a matter of fact, I've received almost $200 in rebate checks in the last 3 weeks alone.. $100 for my cell phones from Cingular, iomagic, intuit, etc.. Sure, it takes more like 12-14 weeks instead of the 6-8 they promise. the IOMagic rebate was more than 4 months old.. Only rebate I ever had a problem with was a $100 rebate on a laptop from Tiger Direct, but after a few emails and irate phone calls, they're processing the rebate now.. The big thing is you need to keep copies of EVERYTHING. receipts, completed rebate forms, etc. I even date the photocopies and store them in case I either dont get a rebate, or I get a letter saying I "forgot" something. usually sending copies of everything I sent them with a sternly worded letter clears that right up.. I've also found that if you go someplace like Office Depot or officemax, they'll offer a substitute item if they're out of stock for the price AFTER the rebate, so, sometimes it pays to wait a day or 2 and not be there banging on the door sunday morning..
I think Dan should be better remembered for Modem Wars, Possibly the very first online RTS than MULE. It was great fun playing against a friend of mine in MI who was possibly the best MW player out there on my C64 at 2400 baud.
I dont watch movies on my G4 anyway. If I want to watch a movie, I watch it on my TV where I can be comfortable. But I do enjoy the lack of DRM on my mac.
Not really. Almost all the hardcore gamers I know use Speakeasy.net or any other provider that will allow them to get a static IP and run servers, so they can provide services like GTV and shoutcast feeds for live commentary on the matches. TSN whores for speakeasy quite alot, simply because their gamer packages kick ass.
No, I'm not a speakeasy customer.
My blanket statement mostly applied to gamers, not just generic DSL connections. If the gamer has the cash to drop on a Geforce4 Ti4600, more than likely he has a decent DSL connection.
After a certain number of violations, sure. Look at anti-spam organizations that do the same thing on a much larger scale like SPEWS. They blacklist larger blocks than /24. Now this isnt on the same legality level as spam, but it sure is just as annoying.
Too many violations from that IP range? Ban the /24 it came from. Send back a "Too many cheaters from your ISP" error.
MACs are too easily changed, but then again, so are IP's. But considering most gamers have DSL with a static IP, an IP ban is a much better option.
They dont have to interoperate or open the protocol, because in the merger agreement, it was said if they offer "next-gen messaging, such as real time video" then they have to, but AOL has *NO* intention of doing that. IM is now all it's ever going to be, text-based chat. So, cry antitrust all you want, but it's all there in the merger agreement.
I really enjoy my cube, I've had it for like 3 months now ($1300 total for Cube and Monitor), and with the new Geforce2MX-ADC on the way, I'll be quartz extreming all over the place :)