Northwood was really unsatisfying. I found that for the money, it was too short with too few stages. While gameplay was fine, the lack of stages simply made the cost not worth it for me.
I've heard the idea batted around that only those residents of the actual States should get the right to vote as they're vote has a direct bearing on the policies that will affect them, whereas expats are removed from such policies by living in foreign countries. This suggestion also leads to the debate about allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote.
As Linux gets more and more momentum behind it, it starts to seem like it will be the last OS that will ever make serious inroads into the general public.
This is not to say that Tannenbaum cultists won't write their own little systems or that Bell Labs won't come up with some ingenious new idea. The thing is that the Open Source nature of Linux makes it possible that any new idea that exists in the real world can be incorporated into the Linux operating system and so Linux grows at the expense of other operating systems.
It's a lot like UNIX, which may be owned by SCO, but whose spirit is embodied in a handful of operating systems including Linux. Lisp is also this way, introducing very useful features that can be copied by other languages making them more Lispy than Lisp becoming more "other-languagy".
It would be enough for me for the Internet to become a place where I can search and find any goddamn thing I'm looking for, whether it be the latest software update from Microsoft or an old album by Boy George or NAMBLA chatrooms.
What I mean is are you getting any preparation for the driving test? Americans can't get the easy license for license swap like other countries citizens.
The test itself is insanely kibishii, normal driving will definitely fail the test. I have about 15 years of driving under my belt but it took me three tries to finally get my license here. I've heard that's about average.
My coworker who came to Japan the same time as me is in the same situation as you with the newly renewed license. That's not a big deal unless you can't document that you've had the license for a while before that. Sounds like you've got that under control.
Remember this about the test: it's not about how well you can drive and handle a car. It's all about how well you know and can follow every single rule of Japanese driving law. The crank, S-curve, and other driving skill tests are a piece of cake. The crap like anzen kakunin and keep to the left of the lane were the things that got me.
If your ISP is also providing spam services to spammers, do you really want to be grouped in with them?
I think the black girl behind me at the screening of The Ring said it best. "Get the fuck out of there!"
Everyone loses when you patronize businesses who willingly accept spammers. Don't give them your money. Do it and feel good about yourself and for the good of your subscribers.
On the one hand, I really don't like how the record companies treat customers. I think that they go way beyond the limits of acceptable practice in their zeal to catch copyright violators, especially lately as it relates to P2P.
On the other hand, I also see the value in having a record company which can front money to new and old bands to keep music fresh and flowing to the audience ears. By not paying for music, musicians will receive less money from the record companies to produce their albums and this will lead to mostly what we see today which is good, interesting bands get left behind for not so good, bland bands which appeal to a larger audience.
The more P2P that goes on, the more Britneys and Outkasts we're going to get.
And especially now at election time such political issues crop up as whether the Republican laissez faire approach to business or the Democrat central control approach to business is more desirable.
Yeah, I know everyone's more interested in Dean making an ass out of himself in that speech after the Iowa caucus, but the longterm health of the American economy is much more fundamentally important than some passing gasbag.
The story is about Australia, but since Oz is perhaps the most culturally similar country to America (barring Canada, of course) it makes sense to really consider what kinds of steps are necessary to prevent fraud in business. Should the approach that Americans are taking now which is primarily a Republican-style approach of letting private companies duke it out in court and leaving the arbitration to judges the right way to go? Or is the Australian method, similar to the approach approved by Democrats, of forcing the company's books open by law the right thing?
I'm torn. Both approaches are relatively unsatisfactory and have repercussions which may be unintended. Pesonally I lean towards the Republican position of leaving private entities to fight amongst themselves with as little governmental intervention as possible.
They are using keys that sound big 168 bits, 256 bits, etc. But those aren't really that big, only 21 bytes and 32 bytes respectively. These sentences are longer than those keys.
Then I note that UNIX limits passwords to 8 bytes. A measly 64 bits.
I don't think I can sleep well knowing that all that stands between my data and some hacker is such a small string.
I got my Japanese driver's license and have been enjoying my new car for the past month.
Everyone parks backwards here because that's what it says in the Rules of the Road handbook. It's fine that everyone parks this way, I have no doubt that it's probably easier to get the car lined up straighter with practice and it's easier to get out of a parking space going forward.
However, the driving ability of many Japanese here is suspect, as is the ability of the Department of Transportation to design adequate roads. I'm not talking about the narrow streets that they can't do anything about, those can be dealt with with some courteous driving. I mean the intersections that allow for a minute for each direction, incomprehensible lights, and an incredibly low speed limit.
The intersection problem is, as I've recently discovered, a workaround for the walking aged problem. Here everyone walks, and the old folks walk slower than most. If the light is too short, they can't make it all the way across, so the solution was to extend the length of the green lights to a minute and beyond. This, of course, causes every other lane to wait for their green light because god knows that they aren't allowed to make a left on red (they drive on the left hand side, so this would be like making a right on red at an intersection). With all the waiting lanes lined up, cars from side streets can't flow smoothly into the arteries and everything comes to a screeching halt.
One problem that I've noticed since I started driving is that the lights are designed to make as little sense as possible. The biggest thing that gets me is that when I am making a right turn across oncoming traffic at an intersection, sometimes the oncoming traffic stops. Of course I have a green light and NO indication that the oncoming lanes have a red light. They've worked around this in some areas by adding a green turning arrow signal that indicates that I have the right of way through the intersection. However, there are still many places (e.g. the right turn into Makuhari Costco) that this is not implemented and traffic sits still for too long because no one knows what the hell is going on.
I am befuddled by the low speed limits of Japanese roads. The Tokyo highway has a maximum posted speed limit of 60km/h. That's a little over 30mph for us Americans. The speed limit in the city is around 20km/h, and on arterials it jumps to 40km/h. These streets aren't so much different than the downtown areas of most American cities where the speed limit is usually a minimum of 25mph. So everyone crawls along but that's not too bad I guess because within a few seconds everyone gets stuck at a stoplight for several minutes and is lucky to make it through without getting T-boned by some other driver who has no idea that you still have the right of way.
While some adulterous adults may not want to have their whereabouts known, it is important for kids to be tracked.
Child abduction is a major problem that affects thousands of families every year. This kind of cell phone tracking would go far to help find missing kids before they end up dead and in a ditch.
I'm running an ADSL broadband line at my house, and splitting the line with a wireless (802.11g) router. However, it means that I can only use my "wireless broadband" network at home. (It's really a wired broadband account, of course.)
Am I missing the point of wireless broadband access? Is it more akin to normal the standard wired broadband where you have a modem/router sitting in the house picking up the broadband signal over the air instead of through the telephone/cable lines?
I would have thought that wireless broadband would be more like having 802.11 hotspots tappable from anywhere. Maybe I'm mistaken.
I can see what you're getting at, but I usually switch from one app to another using keyboard shortcuts rather than hunting and clicking with the mouse. For me, the removal of the master window doesn't buy any benefits, but actually incurs a small penalty.
Making it an option would definitely be nice. Different strokes and all that.
If the executives are really taking the time to try to understand the issues that IT is having, maybe it's time to drop the defensiveness and be frank with your department's issues. There's no need to be accusative or plaintive. You just need to say that A, B, and C are the problems and that X, Y, and Z are the best solutions that IT believes exist.
Management does not want to know what your problems are. They want to know what your solutions are. Prepare to give them solutions to your problems.
Why don't they use a master window to contain all the other child Gimp windows? Every window floats free and disappears and reappears as application focus changes.
Taking a clue from Photoshop, the Gimp could be made much more user-friendly just by adding a simple window frame around all the controls and sub-windowing all the other windows.
I was wondering how you keep people from hooking into the wireless system without paying for a subscription?
Is there some device-specific authentication (based on MAC address or something)? If so, does that mean that each computer in a customer's house needs to be subscribed separately?
Or is there a receiver box (maybe with a router) located in the customer's house which is authenticated by the ISP? Wouldn't this preclude roaming?
How many wireless ISP schemes are there? How do they let customers in and non-customers out?
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Northwood was really unsatisfying. I found that for the money, it was too short with too few stages. While gameplay was fine, the lack of stages simply made the cost not worth it for me.
2 stars.
I've heard the idea batted around that only those residents of the actual States should get the right to vote as they're vote has a direct bearing on the policies that will affect them, whereas expats are removed from such policies by living in foreign countries. This suggestion also leads to the debate about allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote.
As Linux gets more and more momentum behind it, it starts to seem like it will be the last OS that will ever make serious inroads into the general public.
This is not to say that Tannenbaum cultists won't write their own little systems or that Bell Labs won't come up with some ingenious new idea. The thing is that the Open Source nature of Linux makes it possible that any new idea that exists in the real world can be incorporated into the Linux operating system and so Linux grows at the expense of other operating systems.
It's a lot like UNIX, which may be owned by SCO, but whose spirit is embodied in a handful of operating systems including Linux. Lisp is also this way, introducing very useful features that can be copied by other languages making them more Lispy than Lisp becoming more "other-languagy".
I found a rock in my backyard which is composed of material originating from the sun.
Amazing!
It would be enough for me for the Internet to become a place where I can search and find any goddamn thing I'm looking for, whether it be the latest software update from Microsoft or an old album by Boy George or NAMBLA chatrooms.
Perhaps I've said too much...
What I mean is are you getting any preparation for the driving test? Americans can't get the easy license for license swap like other countries citizens.
The test itself is insanely kibishii, normal driving will definitely fail the test. I have about 15 years of driving under my belt but it took me three tries to finally get my license here. I've heard that's about average.
My coworker who came to Japan the same time as me is in the same situation as you with the newly renewed license. That's not a big deal unless you can't document that you've had the license for a while before that. Sounds like you've got that under control.
Remember this about the test: it's not about how well you can drive and handle a car. It's all about how well you know and can follow every single rule of Japanese driving law. The crank, S-curve, and other driving skill tests are a piece of cake. The crap like anzen kakunin and keep to the left of the lane were the things that got me.
Are you receiving any training at a driving school or from one of the expat driver's license services?
If not, that driver's license may be farther down the road than you think.
My only advice to anyone trying to get a license here is anzen kakunin, which translates roughly to "act like a squirrel on amphetamines".
If your ISP is also providing spam services to spammers, do you really want to be grouped in with them?
I think the black girl behind me at the screening of The Ring said it best. "Get the fuck out of there!"
Everyone loses when you patronize businesses who willingly accept spammers. Don't give them your money. Do it and feel good about yourself and for the good of your subscribers.
On the one hand, I really don't like how the record companies treat customers. I think that they go way beyond the limits of acceptable practice in their zeal to catch copyright violators, especially lately as it relates to P2P.
On the other hand, I also see the value in having a record company which can front money to new and old bands to keep music fresh and flowing to the audience ears. By not paying for music, musicians will receive less money from the record companies to produce their albums and this will lead to mostly what we see today which is good, interesting bands get left behind for not so good, bland bands which appeal to a larger audience.
The more P2P that goes on, the more Britneys and Outkasts we're going to get.
If you goddamn kids would close the goddamn door!
And especially now at election time such political issues crop up as whether the Republican laissez faire approach to business or the Democrat central control approach to business is more desirable.
Yeah, I know everyone's more interested in Dean making an ass out of himself in that speech after the Iowa caucus, but the longterm health of the American economy is much more fundamentally important than some passing gasbag.
The story is about Australia, but since Oz is perhaps the most culturally similar country to America (barring Canada, of course) it makes sense to really consider what kinds of steps are necessary to prevent fraud in business. Should the approach that Americans are taking now which is primarily a Republican-style approach of letting private companies duke it out in court and leaving the arbitration to judges the right way to go? Or is the Australian method, similar to the approach approved by Democrats, of forcing the company's books open by law the right thing?
I'm torn. Both approaches are relatively unsatisfactory and have repercussions which may be unintended. Pesonally I lean towards the Republican position of leaving private entities to fight amongst themselves with as little governmental intervention as possible.
"We own Linux."
Isn't that about it?
They are using keys that sound big 168 bits, 256 bits, etc. But those aren't really that big, only 21 bytes and 32 bytes respectively. These sentences are longer than those keys.
Then I note that UNIX limits passwords to 8 bytes. A measly 64 bits.
I don't think I can sleep well knowing that all that stands between my data and some hacker is such a small string.
They cancelled that show two years ago. I think they may have had a few episodes after the pilot.
I got my Japanese driver's license and have been enjoying my new car for the past month.
Everyone parks backwards here because that's what it says in the Rules of the Road handbook. It's fine that everyone parks this way, I have no doubt that it's probably easier to get the car lined up straighter with practice and it's easier to get out of a parking space going forward.
However, the driving ability of many Japanese here is suspect, as is the ability of the Department of Transportation to design adequate roads. I'm not talking about the narrow streets that they can't do anything about, those can be dealt with with some courteous driving. I mean the intersections that allow for a minute for each direction, incomprehensible lights, and an incredibly low speed limit.
The intersection problem is, as I've recently discovered, a workaround for the walking aged problem. Here everyone walks, and the old folks walk slower than most. If the light is too short, they can't make it all the way across, so the solution was to extend the length of the green lights to a minute and beyond. This, of course, causes every other lane to wait for their green light because god knows that they aren't allowed to make a left on red (they drive on the left hand side, so this would be like making a right on red at an intersection). With all the waiting lanes lined up, cars from side streets can't flow smoothly into the arteries and everything comes to a screeching halt.
One problem that I've noticed since I started driving is that the lights are designed to make as little sense as possible. The biggest thing that gets me is that when I am making a right turn across oncoming traffic at an intersection, sometimes the oncoming traffic stops. Of course I have a green light and NO indication that the oncoming lanes have a red light. They've worked around this in some areas by adding a green turning arrow signal that indicates that I have the right of way through the intersection. However, there are still many places (e.g. the right turn into Makuhari Costco) that this is not implemented and traffic sits still for too long because no one knows what the hell is going on.
I am befuddled by the low speed limits of Japanese roads. The Tokyo highway has a maximum posted speed limit of 60km/h. That's a little over 30mph for us Americans. The speed limit in the city is around 20km/h, and on arterials it jumps to 40km/h. These streets aren't so much different than the downtown areas of most American cities where the speed limit is usually a minimum of 25mph. So everyone crawls along but that's not too bad I guess because within a few seconds everyone gets stuck at a stoplight for several minutes and is lucky to make it through without getting T-boned by some other driver who has no idea that you still have the right of way.
Tokyo driving is a zoo.
Free up some of that driving time for important things like cell-phoning, child-swatting, and make up-applying.
Why pay at all?
What's stopping you from using an IM client that allows multiple users in a conference-type configuration?
The IM server is responsible for authentication, so you just add your buddies and then start chatting. Seems simple.
While some adulterous adults may not want to have their whereabouts known, it is important for kids to be tracked.
Child abduction is a major problem that affects thousands of families every year. This kind of cell phone tracking would go far to help find missing kids before they end up dead and in a ditch.
I'm running an ADSL broadband line at my house, and splitting the line with a wireless (802.11g) router. However, it means that I can only use my "wireless broadband" network at home. (It's really a wired broadband account, of course.)
Am I missing the point of wireless broadband access? Is it more akin to normal the standard wired broadband where you have a modem/router sitting in the house picking up the broadband signal over the air instead of through the telephone/cable lines?
I would have thought that wireless broadband would be more like having 802.11 hotspots tappable from anywhere. Maybe I'm mistaken.
I can see what you're getting at, but I usually switch from one app to another using keyboard shortcuts rather than hunting and clicking with the mouse. For me, the removal of the master window doesn't buy any benefits, but actually incurs a small penalty.
Making it an option would definitely be nice. Different strokes and all that.
If the executives are really taking the time to try to understand the issues that IT is having, maybe it's time to drop the defensiveness and be frank with your department's issues. There's no need to be accusative or plaintive. You just need to say that A, B, and C are the problems and that X, Y, and Z are the best solutions that IT believes exist.
Management does not want to know what your problems are. They want to know what your solutions are. Prepare to give them solutions to your problems.
Why don't they use a master window to contain all the other child Gimp windows? Every window floats free and disappears and reappears as application focus changes.
Taking a clue from Photoshop, the Gimp could be made much more user-friendly just by adding a simple window frame around all the controls and sub-windowing all the other windows.
I was wondering how you keep people from hooking into the wireless system without paying for a subscription?
Is there some device-specific authentication (based on MAC address or something)? If so, does that mean that each computer in a customer's house needs to be subscribed separately?
Or is there a receiver box (maybe with a router) located in the customer's house which is authenticated by the ISP? Wouldn't this preclude roaming?
How many wireless ISP schemes are there? How do they let customers in and non-customers out?
I'm all for "mood", but would it really kill them to bring the lights up a couple notches?