It's simple. Use The Washington Post. The archives remain free as long as you have a valid link....true, you can't search into the past, but for most website with proper uris, you can simply use a search engine, which will link to a blog, which will link to the article in question. Yes, you have to register, but that is what BugMeNot is for.
Plus, the WaPo has Dana Milbank, one of the best reporters in the business!
And here's the official FCC link to the TCPA which details that it is illegal to call not only a cell phone, but also hospitals or any service where someone is charged for the call. Read. Learn. Fight back.
A useful link on Slashdot, to an organization I actually want to join! I'm stunned.
Then I started to read about WashTech and I realized...it's a local affiliate in the state of Washington, not in the District of Columbia. So, no good for me. I'm off to pester the CWA about local unions here in Washington, D.C.
I'd suggest, humbly, that the hubris involved in naming your main character "Hiro Protagonist" is worth at least 1 point of S, bringing the total to 4-2.
These are the guys that managed to crush every single other player into the ground...the fact that nVidia was knocked backwards by ATI was a huge deal, but they weren't the champ for being slow on your feet. At the end of the next few months, the continuing battle should be good news for all of us consumers.
Did anyone else notice the size of the die rivals even that of the Pentium 4 EE? This thing is frickin' huge!
Today, we must FEAR those EVIL Canadians and their rum-running abilities. In fact, we have to use our "army of cryptographers, chaos theorists, mathematicians and computer scientists" to defeat just one of those crazy canuck masterminds.
"We probably do about 10 cars a week," Diebold said. And the coming of warmer weather is bringing in a new wave of customers to KTR, which was originally owned by Boston rocker J. Geils.
Um, so can we get the cars to play "freeze frame" now?
But if the earth's circumference is around 25,000 miles, and this jet can go 5,000 miles an hour, that would mean it would take only 2.5 hours to get from any location to any other.
Okay, if it only takes 2.5 hours at top speed to go anywhere on the planet, how much time is spent accelerating and decelerating versus actually flying at Mach 10? And how much fuel are you burning in the process? I remember working at LaRC when they were just starting to test scramjets and I still think the science is good for orbit, but bad for commercial applications.
Actually, both my friends who work in the government and my father who works in a hospital have this requirement. One has to do with security, the other with interference of pacemakers and electronic equipment. Sometimes a cell-phone ban (though I'm not in favor of it) actually is the responsible thing to do.
I'm going to share a secret with you; the average video gamer isn't big on
fist-pumping competition with strangers. That's the territory of the jocks and the scholarship-clutching Future Businessmen of America members. Among gamers, the Unreal Tournament champions and Warcraft III prodigies and SoCom Seal wannabes are a small, hard-core faction.
This sentiment is another breathtakingly naive statement. I still have a copy of Quake 3 demo version that I play from time to time. It's tons of fun. Unreal Tournament 2004 is much better. There's a huge amount of room to grow for online gaming, and saying that online gamers are a "small, hard-core faction" really only refers to online console gamers. Unlike the author, I never owned a console until the PS2 came out. I exclusively played computer games, and enjoyed them. Once consoles start becoming networked by default, I imagine a great deal of computer gamers will relook at consoles for precisely this reason. Or, more predictable, computers will start to look more like consoles and vice-versa, so the differences will blur. In ten years, I think Unreal Tournament 2014 will actually be a big deal.
Compare Madden NFL 2001 to Madden 2004. You have to squint to tell the difference. Do you think innovations for Madden 2007 will be startling by comparison? I'll never forget the IGN Madden 2002 screenshot with a caption pointing out that it would be the first Madden to depict players' arm hair.
I'm not so sure comparing sports games to other types is a fair comparison. Sure, Madden 2004 has a limited amount of improvement....but that doesn't mean newer, fresher, more interesting games can't be developed. Saying "Creativity" is dead seems too simple to me, especially when your example is a sporting game. Think of games like Tetris or Snood: before they were created no one would've thought they'd be so addictive. While I agree that a limit to "realism" may occur soon, I certainly don't think that a lack of new games will occur.
Does it have built in SATA support? Because that's what's killing me now...the 2.6 kernel support for certain controllers is fairly sketchy. I'm thinking Silicon Image here...
I was merely poking fun at the inevitable "I can do a much better job at marketing" comments that I was sure would follow this post. I mean, if every empirical fact we have suggests LucasArts are complete idiots for not producing the game, perhaps we're not in possession of all the facts. Something doesn't add up...
"Wait a minute...some kid on Slashdot said he and a bunch of his friends wanted to play this game! Who cares what our high-priced marketing team said...let's go ahead and develop the game!"
Actually, the fact that everyone is missing has nothing to do with the article in question, because the article in question misses the key point: the only news item from today that is noteworthy is that an alternative bill is being put forward in the House Energy and Commerce Committee that will specifically alter the sections the House Judiciary Committee proposed.
The Wired story is out of date. I'd link to the article in CQ today, but it's restricted. HR3261 will hopefully be beaten by the energy and commerce version, which will bring the database protection under the scope of the FTC, rather than under an individual corporation's scope.
He think it's a good idea and reminds people it's a perfect example of a natural monopoly, except in this case, citizens own the infrastructure, not a private organization. Go local fiber runs!
Did anyone else get the correct number long before the fictional protagonists did...and wonder why, if these people were so smart, they didn't know the difference between the two bombs? I mean, all the NSA people I know are uber-trivia nerds and would've nailed that number in ten seconds, tops. It made an otherwise interesting book hopelessly simplistic imnsho.
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It's simple. Use The Washington Post. The archives remain free as long as you have a valid link....true, you can't search into the past, but for most website with proper uris, you can simply use a search engine, which will link to a blog, which will link to the article in question. Yes, you have to register, but that is what BugMeNot is for. Plus, the WaPo has Dana Milbank, one of the best reporters in the business!
Any change regarding the status of SATA support under x86_64?
Now I'm really sold. If it's a "limited time offer" it must be really, really, cool. What would sci-fi be without free lapel pins...for our lapels?
Here's what you get!
A Discount! 10% off! A Membership Card!
They must think sci-fi geeks are dumber than they...wait, a newsletter too? Sign me up!
And here's the official FCC link to the TCPA which details that it is illegal to call not only a cell phone, but also hospitals or any service where someone is charged for the call. Read. Learn. Fight back.
A useful link on Slashdot, to an organization I actually want to join! I'm stunned. Then I started to read about WashTech and I realized...it's a local affiliate in the state of Washington, not in the District of Columbia. So, no good for me. I'm off to pester the CWA about local unions here in Washington, D.C.
Yeas, the only ass being kicked right now is that of their pitiful webserver.
I'd suggest, humbly, that the hubris involved in naming your main character "Hiro Protagonist" is worth at least 1 point of S, bringing the total to 4-2.
Did anyone else notice the size of the die rivals even that of the Pentium 4 EE? This thing is frickin' huge!
Today, we must FEAR those EVIL Canadians and their rum-running abilities. In fact, we have to use our "army of cryptographers, chaos theorists, mathematicians and computer scientists" to defeat just one of those crazy canuck masterminds.
Um, so can we get the cars to play "freeze frame" now?
But if the earth's circumference is around 25,000 miles, and this jet can go 5,000 miles an hour, that would mean it would take only 2.5 hours to get from any location to any other.
Okay, if it only takes 2.5 hours at top speed to go anywhere on the planet, how much time is spent accelerating and decelerating versus actually flying at Mach 10? And how much fuel are you burning in the process? I remember working at LaRC when they were just starting to test scramjets and I still think the science is good for orbit, but bad for commercial applications.
Actually, both my friends who work in the government and my father who works in a hospital have this requirement. One has to do with security, the other with interference of pacemakers and electronic equipment. Sometimes a cell-phone ban (though I'm not in favor of it) actually is the responsible thing to do.
Until this makes it into the win32 version of the GIMP? Or will this make any difference?
Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism...at least it's an ethos!
This sentiment is another breathtakingly naive statement. I still have a copy of Quake 3 demo version that I play from time to time. It's tons of fun. Unreal Tournament 2004 is much better. There's a huge amount of room to grow for online gaming, and saying that online gamers are a "small, hard-core faction" really only refers to online console gamers. Unlike the author, I never owned a console until the PS2 came out. I exclusively played computer games, and enjoyed them. Once consoles start becoming networked by default, I imagine a great deal of computer gamers will relook at consoles for precisely this reason. Or, more predictable, computers will start to look more like consoles and vice-versa, so the differences will blur. In ten years, I think Unreal Tournament 2014 will actually be a big deal.
I'm not so sure comparing sports games to other types is a fair comparison. Sure, Madden 2004 has a limited amount of improvement....but that doesn't mean newer, fresher, more interesting games can't be developed. Saying "Creativity" is dead seems too simple to me, especially when your example is a sporting game. Think of games like Tetris or Snood: before they were created no one would've thought they'd be so addictive. While I agree that a limit to "realism" may occur soon, I certainly don't think that a lack of new games will occur.
Does it have built in SATA support? Because that's what's killing me now...the 2.6 kernel support for certain controllers is fairly sketchy. I'm thinking Silicon Image here...
I was merely poking fun at the inevitable "I can do a much better job at marketing" comments that I was sure would follow this post. I mean, if every empirical fact we have suggests LucasArts are complete idiots for not producing the game, perhaps we're not in possession of all the facts. Something doesn't add up...
"Wait a minute...some kid on Slashdot said he and a bunch of his friends wanted to play this game! Who cares what our high-priced marketing team said...let's go ahead and develop the game!"
Actually, the fact that everyone is missing has nothing to do with the article in question, because the article in question misses the key point: the only news item from today that is noteworthy is that an alternative bill is being put forward in the House Energy and Commerce Committee that will specifically alter the sections the House Judiciary Committee proposed.
The Wired story is out of date. I'd link to the article in CQ today, but it's restricted. HR3261 will hopefully be beaten by the energy and commerce version, which will bring the database protection under the scope of the FTC, rather than under an individual corporation's scope.
I bet Rosencrantz is pissed to find this out!
He think it's a good idea and reminds people it's a perfect example of a natural monopoly, except in this case, citizens own the infrastructure, not a private organization. Go local fiber runs!
Did anyone else get the correct number long before the fictional protagonists did...and wonder why, if these people were so smart, they didn't know the difference between the two bombs? I mean, all the NSA people I know are uber-trivia nerds and would've nailed that number in ten seconds, tops. It made an otherwise interesting book hopelessly simplistic imnsho.
Man, I hate when I forget to unshort my pins and I get majorly fried. It totally sucks...