Asnwer this then: 1/5th the gun deaths in Canada compared to the US.
Your shit's only worth 2/3 of what our shit's worth.:) Maybe everyone in your country who would want to be an armed robber jumps the border to make it more worth their while?
I just got Dvonn two weeks ago, and it is a fabulous game. Takes about 5 minutes to learn how to play it, and a game takes about 20 minutes to play. It's for two people only. I've played several friends who said that it looked really straightforward until they actually sat down to play it and realize how much thinking it requires.
Dvonn is part of the GIPF project, there are 4 other games (with one more game to follow apparently). (Since you probably didn't follow the link:) )
Based on my experience with Dvonn, I asked for two of the other games for Christmas.:)
I'm in law school now, and one thing you can count on is that everyone else is running Windows, and 99% of them are taking notes in Word (I've run into a few people who use WordPerfect).
In fact, law school is yet another place that being a Linux geek does not help you. When someone wants to borrow notes, you can bet that they're not gonna want yours, as yours aren't in Word format. This isn't so bad, except that of course, when it comes time for you to grab notes from someone else, your options may be limited by the fact that your notes haven't been circulated.
Any study aides that your wife purchases in software form are going to run on Windows. Bar review materials run on Windows. Patent bar review materials run on Windows.
Beyond law school, any firm that your wife works for is going to run Windows, she's gonna have to do Word documents, there's no way around it. Short of working for yourself, the law world works with Windows and Word. Even when working for yourself, you can believe that any software you want to use for billing, forms, etc. will be Windows-based.
The point of this is that your wife, if she's going to law school, is going to have to deal with Windows. At the top tier schools and otherwise.
And the monetary issue is laughable. I don't know how expensive UW is, but I'm going to a state school on half scholarship, and I'm still gonna be $55k in the hole when I get out. The $1500 for a laptop is pocket change in those terms.
If your wife is hellbent on sticking with Linux, going to law school might not be the best idea for her.
Don't buy them gifts...chances are that it will be shit they don't need, when they can probably use the money. They know how to spend the money on themselves better than you know how to spend it on them.
And no, there is no amount of money that is ever "too much".
with Mario Kart, Pikmin 2, and their Metal Gear Solid remake, all still coming out this year
Unfortunately, I've read on several sites that Pikmin 2 has been moved to Q2 2004 (may was the prediction). Definitely a disappointment, as it was the one title I was really looking forward to this fall. Almost 2 years later, the game I still play the most on my GC is Pikmin.
IANAL of course, but there is a legal premise that says that someone accused of criminal activity gets the opportunity to confront their accuser...it seems to me that if a machine is taking pictures of you, you don't get the opportunity to confront it (ie, cross-examine it).
Unfortunately, for you and me, it makes a lot more sense to just pay the fine than it does to try to take on the constitutionality of the law. We'll need someone like the ACLU to take this on.
A couple of ACs posted it, but didn't get modded up and I don't have any mod points right now.
Solitaire, written in Python. Better than any other solitaire games I've seen (including some commercial). There are something like 200 different solitaire games built in.
Something that might be even more effective than a boycott is this: everyone buys copy-protected CDs, opens them, returns them. Repackaging costs (if that's what they do with them) would be extensive, possibly making the record labels reconsider their copy-protection schemes. If they don't repackage and just chuck them, those costs would also be extensive, possibly making the record labels reconsider.
Even using this scheme, though, there will have to be massive numbers of people returning these CDs for the record companies to take notice. But it's certainly easier for the record companies to take notice that people aren't happy this way.
It's possible that a boycott just makes the record companies think people didn't like the music. By returning the CDs, the record companies will know that it's the technology that the consumers don't like.
Actually, as a Tivo subscriber, I got an email a month or two ago about new units that they will be shipping later this year (and of course a "special deal" on them), and the units are going to have USB ports on the back of them.
The email stated that these ports were going to be for peripheral attachment, but it did not specify what those peripherals were going to be.
A year ago tomorrow, Katz posted an article about CSI. I guess the ol' idea bin is running dry for him or something. That or they're paying him by the article.
Then how is showing a movie on TV any safer? According to this rationale, the movie's DVD has lost value. And yet, last time I checked, they're still showing movies on TV.
The argument they give here has absolutely no merit, as it is still possible, without a PVR, to look at the local listings and program your VCR to tape all of them for you. Better still, you can just make sure you're home to watch them live. There's nothing stopping you from doing that...in fact, maybe they shouldn't show anything on TV, because if you see it for free on TV, you won't buy it when it comes out on video. What will they argue next? TV Guide shouldn't be published, because then you'll know the shows are on, then you'll watch them, which will "cause substantial harm to the market" for the DVDs.
I'm interested to see what happens, but I have a hard time believing that the case won't be thrown out almost immediately.
A lot of the scientific-type information that he gives on that show comes directly from Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking by Shirley Corriher (whom he often has on the show). The book is amazing with the information that it gives as far as why food works the way it does.
But you're absolutely correct, it's the best instructional show on Food TV (the iron chef might be entertaining, but it's not instructional).
Maybe product placement could work with it. There was an episode of Dawson's Creek that had Dawson and his dad talking about it, they showed the screen for a second. Problem there is, Dawson's Creek doesn't get enough ratings. Beyond the obvious problem that no one over 16 (except me) watches the show.
Think about this: if there were an episode of say, Friends, that had Monica and Chandler getting one and they start fighting over who gets to put the season passes in (or something), and they actually show the Friends cast being excited about it, I think that would do a lot to make people see what it does and how cool it is.
After all, isn't NBC one of Tivo's investors?
I don't believe for one second that this is going to happen, though.
Yeah, and the beauty of/. is that it points out those silly sites and give them credence through web site hits.
OTOH, the chances are probably minimal that the site is prepared to get/.'ed, so hopefully it will be brought to its knees. What're the chances that "Mom" has enough horsepower to deal with it.
Bullshit. Probably a tenth of the packet traffic on the Internet is SMTP and NNTP spam. That's real hardware, folks.
And a real drain on sysadmins' time.
Hmm..somehow you didn't refute my claim that email spam is no different than junk mail.
While it's true that spam can be a drain on sysadmins' time, what about all of the time spent by people on real junk mail? I would argue that it's much greater than the amount of time spent by sysadmins. You have the USPS postal carriers who have to make more pickups because of junk mail, more gas burned by driving the junk mail around, more trips to be made by driving the junk mail around. Once I get the junk mail, it takes me a few seconds to throw out the junk mail. Multiply that by everyone who gets the junk mail (not just the sysadmins, I might point out), and multiply that by the several times a week that junk mail arrives in the average mail box.
And still that's only part of the story. Once I throw it out, there is still all of the extra time that it takes the garbage men to do their rounds (not much per individual house, but multiply it by all of the houses they go to). Then there's all the gas that's burned in driving it to the landfill.
But wait, there's more. What about all of the paper that was used in printing the junk mail? Surely we could use it for something more productive than that.
And then, think about all of the space that's taken up in the landfills by the paper. Granted, it's biodegradable, but it's still taking up space.
I'm not trying to take away from the problem of spam. All I'm saying is that the government isn't playing it straight with its citizens. It condones certain types of spam, as long as it is a beneficiary of it.
I completely agree. If it's too much to hit the delete in your mail reader, it's time for you to find a mail reader that's easier to use.
What I find interesting is that the government actually condones this behavior if it is in its interest - junk mail. I don't see the government interested in passing a bill outlawing junk mail. And why not? It's no different from this, except that it uses tangible resources rather than electrical ones. But since the government runs the USPS, and the USPS benefits from the income from junk mail, there's no law against it.
So by that rationale, if the spammers can figure out a way to cut the government in on the action, they can ensure that the goverment won't pass a bill on it. It's rare that the government passes a bill that limits its behavior. Only the behavior of its citizens.
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It's an "injection" you get in the PYITA prison.
# Perl 6 :w modifier surrounds all tokens with "automagic" whitespace,
# which basically means it will match what most people would call
# "words"
'whereas in Perl 5 you can match "hello there" with "hello there" itself, in Perl 6 you'd have to ask for /hello <sp> there/ instead.'
Then: grammar English { rule name :w { <singlename> <singlename> };
rule singlename { <[A-Z]><[a-z]>+ };
};
Shouldn't this be: "{ <singlename> <sp> <singlename> };"?
Your shit's only worth 2/3 of what our shit's worth. :) Maybe everyone in your country who would want to be an armed robber jumps the border to make it more worth their while?
Yes, extremely tongue-in-cheek.
Dammit, now Solarquest is even more out of date!
Does anyone else find it funny that the link was to a .au site?
Dvonn is part of the GIPF project, there are 4 other games (with one more game to follow apparently). (Since you probably didn't follow the link :) )
Based on my experience with Dvonn, I asked for two of the other games for Christmas. :)
So that's an unqualified thumbs up for Dvonn.
And back on C64, there was also Space Taxi, which sounds a lot like what you're talking about. That one has to be 15-20 years ago...
In fact, law school is yet another place that being a Linux geek does not help you. When someone wants to borrow notes, you can bet that they're not gonna want yours, as yours aren't in Word format. This isn't so bad, except that of course, when it comes time for you to grab notes from someone else, your options may be limited by the fact that your notes haven't been circulated.
Any study aides that your wife purchases in software form are going to run on Windows. Bar review materials run on Windows. Patent bar review materials run on Windows.
Beyond law school, any firm that your wife works for is going to run Windows, she's gonna have to do Word documents, there's no way around it. Short of working for yourself, the law world works with Windows and Word. Even when working for yourself, you can believe that any software you want to use for billing, forms, etc. will be Windows-based.
The point of this is that your wife, if she's going to law school, is going to have to deal with Windows. At the top tier schools and otherwise.
And the monetary issue is laughable. I don't know how expensive UW is, but I'm going to a state school on half scholarship, and I'm still gonna be $55k in the hole when I get out. The $1500 for a laptop is pocket change in those terms.
If your wife is hellbent on sticking with Linux, going to law school might not be the best idea for her.
And no, there is no amount of money that is ever "too much".
Unfortunately, I've read on several sites that Pikmin 2 has been moved to Q2 2004 (may was the prediction). Definitely a disappointment, as it was the one title I was really looking forward to this fall. Almost 2 years later, the game I still play the most on my GC is Pikmin.
This is the worst Ask Slashdot ever.
Unfortunately, for you and me, it makes a lot more sense to just pay the fine than it does to try to take on the constitutionality of the law. We'll need someone like the ACLU to take this on.
Solitaire, written in Python. Better than any other solitaire games I've seen (including some commercial). There are something like 200 different solitaire games built in.
It can be found here.
There isn't a windows build on the page, it's python, dude.
For example, $360 for a 1.6 GHz P4 w/ 3 year on-site service.
Even using this scheme, though, there will have to be massive numbers of people returning these CDs for the record companies to take notice. But it's certainly easier for the record companies to take notice that people aren't happy this way.
It's possible that a boycott just makes the record companies think people didn't like the music. By returning the CDs, the record companies will know that it's the technology that the consumers don't like.
Actually, as a Tivo subscriber, I got an email a month or two ago about new units that they will be shipping later this year (and of course a "special deal" on them), and the units are going to have USB ports on the back of them.
The email stated that these ports were going to be for peripheral attachment, but it did not specify what those peripherals were going to be.
A year ago tomorrow, Katz posted an article about CSI. I guess the ol' idea bin is running dry for him or something. That or they're paying him by the article.
The argument they give here has absolutely no merit, as it is still possible, without a PVR, to look at the local listings and program your VCR to tape all of them for you. Better still, you can just make sure you're home to watch them live. There's nothing stopping you from doing that...in fact, maybe they shouldn't show anything on TV, because if you see it for free on TV, you won't buy it when it comes out on video. What will they argue next? TV Guide shouldn't be published, because then you'll know the shows are on, then you'll watch them, which will "cause substantial harm to the market" for the DVDs.
I'm interested to see what happens, but I have a hard time believing that the case won't be thrown out almost immediately.
But you're absolutely correct, it's the best instructional show on Food TV (the iron chef might be entertaining, but it's not instructional).
Think about this: if there were an episode of say, Friends, that had Monica and Chandler getting one and they start fighting over who gets to put the season passes in (or something), and they actually show the Friends cast being excited about it, I think that would do a lot to make people see what it does and how cool it is.
After all, isn't NBC one of Tivo's investors?
I don't believe for one second that this is going to happen, though.
OTOH, the chances are probably minimal that the site is prepared to get /.'ed, so hopefully it will be brought to its knees. What're the chances that "Mom" has enough horsepower to deal with it.
Man, I can remember my mom getting pissed that they had it in the movie and it got the PG rating. Yeah, my virgin ears.
Hmm..somehow you didn't refute my claim that email spam is no different than junk mail.
While it's true that spam can be a drain on sysadmins' time, what about all of the time spent by people on real junk mail? I would argue that it's much greater than the amount of time spent by sysadmins. You have the USPS postal carriers who have to make more pickups because of junk mail, more gas burned by driving the junk mail around, more trips to be made by driving the junk mail around. Once I get the junk mail, it takes me a few seconds to throw out the junk mail. Multiply that by everyone who gets the junk mail (not just the sysadmins, I might point out), and multiply that by the several times a week that junk mail arrives in the average mail box.
And still that's only part of the story. Once I throw it out, there is still all of the extra time that it takes the garbage men to do their rounds (not much per individual house, but multiply it by all of the houses they go to). Then there's all the gas that's burned in driving it to the landfill.
But wait, there's more. What about all of the paper that was used in printing the junk mail? Surely we could use it for something more productive than that.
And then, think about all of the space that's taken up in the landfills by the paper. Granted, it's biodegradable, but it's still taking up space.
I'm not trying to take away from the problem of spam. All I'm saying is that the government isn't playing it straight with its citizens. It condones certain types of spam, as long as it is a beneficiary of it.
What I find interesting is that the government actually condones this behavior if it is in its interest - junk mail. I don't see the government interested in passing a bill outlawing junk mail. And why not? It's no different from this, except that it uses tangible resources rather than electrical ones. But since the government runs the USPS, and the USPS benefits from the income from junk mail, there's no law against it.
So by that rationale, if the spammers can figure out a way to cut the government in on the action, they can ensure that the goverment won't pass a bill on it. It's rare that the government passes a bill that limits its behavior. Only the behavior of its citizens.