Granted, the Dell workstations may come with less pre-installed crapware and trialware than their home pc counterparts. So the price gap between a Linux vs Win install on home pc's vs their business may be slightly different
Pffft.... diamonds. Just cause its the most expensive gemstone, doesn't make it the prettiest. Now moissanite, there's a nice high tech and beautiful stone to put on a laptop, plus its rarer to boot.
I would have linked Charles and Colvrad's page but it's kinda cheesy, enjoy a wikipedia link instead (if you want to see the stones, check em out at a local jeweler, a web page does it no justice).
Now, the two big companies in the US to watch for Synthetic diamonds since nobody posted the links: Gemesis: Use the traditional High Pressure, High Temp method. Apollo Diamond Use a more innovative (and elusive) Carbon Vapor Depositation method.
The RIAA is bad, but they're nothing compared to the Nazis. Copyright infringers are bad, but nothing like *Pirates*. Unless you want to compare murder, rape, and theft in the high seas to making an illegal copy.
Come to think of it, we need a really derogatory name for companies that alienate their customerbase like this.... I vote for *molesters*, in that they bother their customer base (from the spanish molestar). Vague but it conveys a good image for them!
Wouldn't evaporating or boiling some of the water via nuclear reactors or orbiting mirrors increase the humidity and heat retention of the atmosphere I can see it now... "The Simple Guide to Terraforming a Planet"
1. Bring the whole planet to a slow boil. * 2. Let planet sit until it reaches room temperature 3. Colonize!
As a side effect you would also be sterilizing the planet (at least of bacteria that can't survive boiling water, granted water would boil at a lower temp on Mars).
* For a more delicious recipe, add noodles and flavor packet after Step 1.
Something to like already, from the faq (emphasis mine):
What are the recommended and supported browsers for the Armory?
The Armory supports Internet Explorer (version 6.0 and up), Opera 9, and Safari. However, the Armory is best experienced with Firefox. In addition, certain features require Flash Player to function. Currently, the arena team icons are Flash elements, and future aspects of the Armory may be reliant on Flash as well. Nice, the more high profile sites recommending Firefox the better!
Depends on which kind of chorizo you're talking about. Mexican chorizo (the kind I've seen anyway) has a consistency like uncooked breakfast sausage (and indeed when you buy it in the store it must be cooked before consumption).
Spanish chorizo (my favorite by far) is a different animal all together (well still pig). It's ready to eat, has a consistency like salami and is generally sliced a few mm thick when served on a sandwich.
Now you should see the difference between what Mexicans call tortillas and what tortillas are in Spain! (Spanish tortillas are more like a quiche or omelet made from a dozen to 18 eggs, containing green peppers and potatoes, they're about 6cm thick and quite delicious).
Ok, now I'm hungry for a Spanish chorizo and Manchego cheese sandwich dammit!
One more worth checking out is AV Personal from Avira. I've using it for years (till I switched to Linux) and always recommend it first to friends and family. I've always noted it to be lean and effective.
Every other compound you can order from Aldrich will kill cancer cells in vitro. So will a ball peen hammer. Drano, playground sand, double-acting baking powder. Pledge will kill them and leave a lemony-fresh scent. Yes but which one would you like to have applied to your colon in the event of Colon Cancer? Sure the ball peen hammer would be way out, Drano? Ow! Playground sand.... hmm... bean bag colon. Pledge would be an interesting option.
Now what I want to know is why arent' we seeing more scented cures for cancer? "Would you prefer lemon, pine, or new car smell Mr. Johnson? Keep in mind your insurance doesn't cover pine".
Read carefully:
Now, using that phone you bought to replace your existing phone on an old line I can't say I know any co that'll extend your contract for that. That would qualify as an *existing* line and usually they don't care or in the case of a GSM phone they don't have to know about it.
Before you go out of the way to buy a new phone at regular retail, check to see if the company you're gonna activate your new phone with won't require a contract *anyway*. I know, seems asinine that a co would require a contract for just activating a new line without giving you a phone, but I know at least 1 that does.
Now, using that phone you bought to replace your existing phone on an old line I can't say I know any co that'll extend your contract for that. Now changing service plans on the other hand...
Remember when AMD made Intel clones down to the very chip architecture and it didn't matter which manifacturer you bought from?
Remember how AMD K5 sucked and people started leaning towards Intels? And then Pentium 4 happened, and AMD's new architecture was much superior? And then Core turned things on their head again?
Aye his video lectures really came in useful last semester when I was actually taking Linear Algebra and I needed more exposure to the material. Definitely good stuff and I now make it a point to look up the equivalent MIT OpenCourseware page to the class(es) I'm taking.
On the note of online math tools, professor Paul Dawkins from Lamar University also has his notes ranging from Calc I to Differential Equations and Linear Algebra online, not video lectures but much easier to read and follow than the DFQ's texbook I had that semester. This guy really needs to be writing textbooks!
I think they may be talking about brining in someone to the 2nd Area when they havn't reached it yet. But if you all start together you should be ok. So in other words you (and your teammates) can only enter areas that you've gained entry to by clearing prior areas.
Two come to mind as bringing many hours of enjoyment to me and my wife:
Baulder's Gate for the PS2 (though also available for the cube and XBox). Phantasy Star Online for the Gamecube via the splitscreen (though it would have been cool to play it with a couple of networked gamecubes and separate screens without having to hook them up online (and paying the whatever/mo fee).
Another one that was excellent for multiplayer and even supported up to 4 players was Armada (Dreamcast). Sadly the sequel for that gamed was abandoned and the Metro3d's (the co behind the game) website is no longer there.
Any of these should be cheap to pick up and worth playing.
Heh, sorry, didn't realize outsourcing didn't exist in the world. Well, maybe one day companies can collaborate on a product, think I might have to start a company that'll be in charge of officially porting games,to Linux. I may even have to name it after a norse god just to be cool. How does Loki sound?
Since when has bliz released "a totally broken client?", remember, they're not Verant. And I was talking about having Transgaming do the necessary support, including testing and feedback. But wait...
"So now has to do testing for each client against the list of 'official WOW Linux builds supported on WoW'."
At the very least they could form a partnership with Transgaming or the Crossover Folks where they'll reward them for every customer they provide them. So say Bliz throws $1-3 a mo to Transgaming for each client running cedega and in change Transgaming would provide the official Linux support and maybe pass on the discount to the customer (so if you're running WoW under transgaming you would pay only $2-3 a month vs $5).
I don't see how that could really hurt them, Transgaming gets a secured revenue source and gets to work more closely with Bliz, Blizzard gets to keep a fair number of linux players happy, the players know they're officially supported and don't have to deal with issues like this one where without warning cedega users could not log in after a server side change and was not fixed till almost midnight the next day (quick I know, but a pain nonetheless for the ppl who can only play on the weekends).
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Granted, the Dell workstations may come with less pre-installed crapware and trialware than their home pc counterparts. So the price gap between a Linux vs Win install on home pc's vs their business may be slightly different
Story OP is talking about:
1996
And apparently he wasn't the only one successful in creating his own reactor (different type, yes. But a reactor nonetheless):
2006
Pffft.... diamonds. Just cause its the most expensive gemstone, doesn't make it the prettiest. Now moissanite, there's a nice high tech and beautiful stone to put on a laptop, plus its rarer to boot.
I would have linked Charles and Colvrad's page but it's kinda cheesy, enjoy a wikipedia link instead (if you want to see the stones, check em out at a local jeweler, a web page does it no justice).
Now, the two big companies in the US to watch for Synthetic diamonds since nobody posted the links:
Gemesis: Use the traditional High Pressure, High Temp method.
Apollo Diamond Use a more innovative (and elusive) Carbon Vapor Depositation method.
Hey thanks, I was having some trouble with insomnia (hence why I'm reading slashdot at 3am) that really helped. Hmm.... law speak...
Night!
Come to think of it, we need a really derogatory name for companies that alienate their customerbase like this.... I vote for *molesters*, in that they bother their customer base (from the spanish molestar). Vague but it conveys a good image for them!
1. Bring the whole planet to a slow boil. *
2. Let planet sit until it reaches room temperature
3. Colonize!
As a side effect you would also be sterilizing the planet (at least of bacteria that can't survive boiling water, granted water would boil at a lower temp on Mars).
* For a more delicious recipe, add noodles and flavor packet after Step 1.
The Armory supports Internet Explorer (version 6.0 and up), Opera 9, and Safari. However, the Armory is best experienced with Firefox. In addition, certain features require Flash Player to function. Currently, the arena team icons are Flash elements, and future aspects of the Armory may be reliant on Flash as well. Nice, the more high profile sites recommending Firefox the better!
Depends on which kind of chorizo you're talking about. Mexican chorizo (the kind I've seen anyway) has a consistency like uncooked breakfast sausage (and indeed when you buy it in the store it must be cooked before consumption).
Spanish chorizo (my favorite by far) is a different animal all together (well still pig). It's ready to eat, has a consistency like salami and is generally sliced a few mm thick when served on a sandwich.
Now you should see the difference between what Mexicans call tortillas and what tortillas are in Spain! (Spanish tortillas are more like a quiche or omelet made from a dozen to 18 eggs, containing green peppers and potatoes, they're about 6cm thick and quite delicious).
Ok, now I'm hungry for a Spanish chorizo and Manchego cheese sandwich dammit!
This should be used to make bicycles and bicycle clothing in areas with a high population problem.
One more worth checking out is AV Personal from Avira. I've using it for years (till I switched to Linux) and always recommend it first to friends and family. I've always noted it to be lean and effective.
Now what I want to know is why arent' we seeing more scented cures for cancer? "Would you prefer lemon, pine, or new car smell Mr. Johnson? Keep in mind your insurance doesn't cover pine".
Before you go out of the way to buy a new phone at regular retail, check to see if the company you're gonna activate your new phone with won't require a contract *anyway*. I know, seems asinine that a co would require a contract for just activating a new line without giving you a phone, but I know at least 1 that does.
Now, using that phone you bought to replace your existing phone on an old line I can't say I know any co that'll extend your contract for that. Now changing service plans on the other hand...
Remember when AMD made Intel clones down to the very chip architecture and it didn't matter which manifacturer you bought from?
Remember how AMD K5 sucked and people started leaning towards Intels? And then Pentium 4 happened, and AMD's new architecture was much superior? And then Core turned things on their head again?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Aye his video lectures really came in useful last semester when I was actually taking Linear Algebra and I needed more exposure to the material. Definitely good stuff and I now make it a point to look up the equivalent MIT OpenCourseware page to the class(es) I'm taking.
On the note of online math tools, professor Paul Dawkins from Lamar University also has his notes ranging from Calc I to Differential Equations and Linear Algebra online, not video lectures but much easier to read and follow than the DFQ's texbook I had that semester. This guy really needs to be writing textbooks!
Hmmm.. Make anonymous edits get queued till someone who's registered can validate them? Once validated they can be posted.
If you don't want your comments screened first then register. Though I agree, requiring a Driver's license may be a bit much.
I think they may be talking about brining in someone to the 2nd Area when they havn't reached it yet. But if you all start together you should be ok. So in other words you (and your teammates) can only enter areas that you've gained entry to by clearing prior areas.
Two come to mind as bringing many hours of enjoyment to me and my wife:
Baulder's Gate for the PS2 (though also available for the cube and XBox).
Phantasy Star Online for the Gamecube via the splitscreen (though it would have been cool to play it with a couple of networked gamecubes and separate screens without having to hook them up online (and paying the whatever/mo fee).
Another one that was excellent for multiplayer and even supported up to 4 players was Armada (Dreamcast). Sadly the sequel for that gamed was abandoned and the Metro3d's (the co behind the game) website is no longer there.
Any of these should be cheap to pick up and worth playing.
"Oh, and why should Linux players play less than all other players?"
Can we have that again, but this time have it make sense. Cause nobody said anything about anybody playing less...
"it is Blizzard who has to do the testing."
Heh, sorry, didn't realize outsourcing didn't exist in the world. Well, maybe one day companies can collaborate on a product, think I might have to start a company that'll be in charge of officially porting games,to Linux. I may even have to name it after a norse god just to be cool. How does Loki sound?
"So now (*) has to do testing for each client ...
* should read transgaming.
Since when has bliz released "a totally broken client?", remember, they're not Verant. And I was talking about having Transgaming do the necessary support, including testing and feedback. But wait...
"So now has to do testing for each client against the list of 'official WOW Linux builds supported on WoW'."
Fixed it for you. See Transgaming already tests their supported programs under various distros (and provided the varied installers to boot)..
Which linux versions you say?:
"No matter what version of Linux you use"
Can you be more specific?
"Technical Requirements..."
"...* Linux Kernel 2.4 or higher
* XFree 86 4.0 or higher (4.3 is recommended) or Xorg
* glibc 2.2 or higher"
Seems kinda broad. So were talking about collaboration, not duplicating effort. Who would have thunk it.
"Because we all know keeping Linux players happy is SO MUCH more important than keeping the rest of the players happy."
Yes of course, since they're both mutually exclusive...
At the very least they could form a partnership with Transgaming or the Crossover Folks where they'll reward them for every customer they provide them. So say Bliz throws $1-3 a mo to Transgaming for each client running cedega and in change Transgaming would provide the official Linux support and maybe pass on the discount to the customer (so if you're running WoW under transgaming you would pay only $2-3 a month vs $5).
I don't see how that could really hurt them, Transgaming gets a secured revenue source and gets to work more closely with Bliz, Blizzard gets to keep a fair number of linux players happy, the players know they're officially supported and don't have to deal with issues like this one where without warning cedega users could not log in after a server side change and was not fixed till almost midnight the next day (quick I know, but a pain nonetheless for the ppl who can only play on the weekends).
"makes as much sense as being a devout Catholic"
Wait, are you saying that religion is just a giant rep grind with feeble rewards at the end? ZOMG! Why am I playing this game!