Planet Money did a great piece on dealership laws awhile back, talking about a startup that wanted to sell cars directly, and how insurmountable the obstacles they faced ended up being.
I agree with the parent. I'm currently using the TMobile Galaxy S2 in Canada, which I had unlocked 60 days after purchase. Whenever I cross the border north, I drop in a PAYG SIM from Fido. Works great. I'm also able to buy a $1 daypass from Fido for data on the fly, and that works great as well. (the 10M data cap on the day pass makes it for emergencies only, but it's certainly nice to have it for that).
I agree. There was a game called Sentinel Worlds, back in the day that featured resource mining much like Mass Effect 2. I just finished ME2 a short while back, and I wondered if the authors had played that game back in the day; the mining feature caused a lot of nostalgic appeal...
Oh, I don't know. The reboot of the Fallout series (I'm only speaking to Fallout 3, here) is rife with side quests, and is very much an 'explore only as you like' sort of environment; not roller coaster at all. I spent many days (cumulatively) exploring possibilities in this game. Not that I'm saying there aren't plenty of examples of what you're describing, but there are *some* good new ones out there.
AFAIK, you can't. Asphalt is cheap, but has a far lower maximum axle load than concrete. A lot of what the weigh stations are for is ensuring compliance with that maximum. See also.
Just confirming the parent post above that the Sony Reader does do ePub format. It does PDF as well, although that can be more frustrating than not; on a device with a smaller screen like the new Reader touch, enlarging the font does not reflow the page with PDFs. You end up being stuck with single pages with a sentence or two on them (at the size I read), unless your eyes are exceptional.
Unfortunately, the local library has far more PDF offerings than ePub, and far more DRM'ed Windows Media content than anything else.
So, I'm a little unclear on this. The last I heard, the latest jailbreak code relied on using some iPad firmware that was a much higher version number than current built iterations of the iPhone codebase. The downsides of installing this, as spelled on on the dev team blog, revolved around revealing to Apple unequivocally that your phone was jailbroken (and violating TOS for warranty), as well as being unable to come back down from this jailbroken state due to newer version numbers still being lower than this iPad version. Is this no longer the case with the Greenpois0n update?
The Air Force was the same way, unfortunately. I don't know if this is still true, but I used to work on the flight line, and it didn't matter if your jet was flying or not; there was always something to do, and if you didn't smoke, you had to go out of your way to hide for a 15 minute break. The higher ups that worked indoors would task you if they caught you sitting around and bs-ing, but they could see you outside smoking and bs-ing and could care less. I know many folks who learned that lesson early on.
Hopefully it's on the way out. I know it seemed far less prevalent during the latter portion of my career. Of course, I had changed job fields at that point, so that may have affected it as well.
I'm confused, here. I'm certainly no biology expert, but I have taken a few courses, one of which the prof seemed to describe exactly how DNA folds. Indeed, it's spelled out in detail on this Wikipedia page on chromatin.
Wouldn't this cause problems with perfusion? As I understand it, the arteries absorb some of the force of the heart's contraction due to their elasticity, and reuse it when they contract in turn to send the blood to more distal points in the body. It's been suggested that increased arterial stiffness is associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, and it seems like this might cause a similar effect over time. If you're getting an artificial heart, perhaps this point is moot, and from the story, it sounds like she doesn't have a choice, but I wonder if it would be an issue.
Bear in mind that director Peter Jackson did "Dead Alive", as well as "Meet the Feebles". I never saw anyone taking a lawnmower to a crowd of rat-monkey zombies or a huge finale piece with the chorus line "I enjoy the act of sodomy" in LOTR.
Are they real? I know there's a lot of knockoffs right now that are supposed to be indistinguishable from a distance. Wired ran a story about them very recently.
What kind of LaTEX do you need to be writing? If it's just mathematics, and you're on linux or osx, you may want to consider LaTeXiT. It renders equations to pdf and image formats, one of which I know for sure you can embed in a google document. It also lets you maintain libraries of equations, so you can modify them later.
I used it recently, in conjunction with Apple keynote for the Mac. It was far easier to deal with just the math LaTEX subset, and only at points where I needed it. I imagine a non-technical audience may agree.
Laequed purports to do something similar for windows. Haven't tried it myself.
What was your AFSC, just out of curiosity? I searched quite a bit for programming positions while I was in as targets for cross training. It sounds like it's best that I wasn't successful, from how you're describing it.
This is a huge issue for me. There were some issues with hardware encoded locking with the 6th generation ipods (the ipod nano with the video screen). Prior iPods could be mounted and the music interchange performed with a variety of different linux software packages. These newer versions could be mounted and read, but writes just plain failed.
I had just finished purchasing a nano for my sister for christmas as well (I had previously set her up with an ubuntu box). She's having to use a roommate's XP box to do the transfer. This is an area where Apple has done far worse than just drop the ball, in my book. I've been an Apple fan for awhile, but they lost a lot of my goodwill when I discovered this move.
People who own Wiis wouldn't even think of looking for a Prince of Persia game... they're looking for sudoku or mini-games to shake the Wiimote around a bit.
I have to disagree with this last statement. I was just visiting a friend who owned a Wii, and had Splinter Cell: Double Agent for it. While by and large the games he owned would live up to your statement, it's not always true.
The game was fairly difficult as well, primarily due to usage of the Wii remote and the nunchuk adapter in conjunction to move and shoot. Far cry from most Wii games. I don't own a Wii (yet), but the fact that both types are available is very appealing to me, as that means I can enjoy this type of game myself, and still have the more out-of-the-box-intuitive games that everyone can enjoy.
Halliburton: We're suing you for violating our patent.
Random_company: How can that be your patent! We've had that as company trade secret for -
Halliburton (interrupts): and now we're suing you for discovering our patent troll, which could only be done by violating our patent on the discovery process for patent trolling.
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Planet Money did a great piece on dealership laws awhile back, talking about a startup that wanted to sell cars directly, and how insurmountable the obstacles they faced ended up being.
Broder appears to have posted a response.
I agree with the parent. I'm currently using the TMobile Galaxy S2 in Canada, which I had unlocked 60 days after purchase. Whenever I cross the border north, I drop in a PAYG SIM from Fido. Works great. I'm also able to buy a $1 daypass from Fido for data on the fly, and that works great as well. (the 10M data cap on the day pass makes it for emergencies only, but it's certainly nice to have it for that).
I agree. There was a game called Sentinel Worlds, back in the day that featured resource mining much like Mass Effect 2. I just finished ME2 a short while back, and I wondered if the authors had played that game back in the day; the mining feature caused a lot of nostalgic appeal...
There's a Times article available today on the subject.
Oh, I don't know. The reboot of the Fallout series (I'm only speaking to Fallout 3, here) is rife with side quests, and is very much an 'explore only as you like' sort of environment; not roller coaster at all. I spent many days (cumulatively) exploring possibilities in this game. Not that I'm saying there aren't plenty of examples of what you're describing, but there are *some* good new ones out there.
AFAIK, you can't. Asphalt is cheap, but has a far lower maximum axle load than concrete. A lot of what the weigh stations are for is ensuring compliance with that maximum. See also.
Just confirming the parent post above that the Sony Reader does do ePub format. It does PDF as well, although that can be more frustrating than not; on a device with a smaller screen like the new Reader touch, enlarging the font does not reflow the page with PDFs. You end up being stuck with single pages with a sentence or two on them (at the size I read), unless your eyes are exceptional.
Unfortunately, the local library has far more PDF offerings than ePub, and far more DRM'ed Windows Media content than anything else.
So, I'm a little unclear on this. The last I heard, the latest jailbreak code relied on using some iPad firmware that was a much higher version number than current built iterations of the iPhone codebase. The downsides of installing this, as spelled on on the dev team blog, revolved around revealing to Apple unequivocally that your phone was jailbroken (and violating TOS for warranty), as well as being unable to come back down from this jailbroken state due to newer version numbers still being lower than this iPad version. Is this no longer the case with the Greenpois0n update?
I tell ya, if I had a NaCl for every pun on here...
The Air Force was the same way, unfortunately. I don't know if this is still true, but I used to work on the flight line, and it didn't matter if your jet was flying or not; there was always something to do, and if you didn't smoke, you had to go out of your way to hide for a 15 minute break. The higher ups that worked indoors would task you if they caught you sitting around and bs-ing, but they could see you outside smoking and bs-ing and could care less. I know many folks who learned that lesson early on. Hopefully it's on the way out. I know it seemed far less prevalent during the latter portion of my career. Of course, I had changed job fields at that point, so that may have affected it as well.
Looks like he had better hurry. All the high radiation level stuff is already sold out.
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Am I the only one who's a little disturbed by that?
I'm confused, here. I'm certainly no biology expert, but I have taken a few courses, one of which the prof seemed to describe exactly how DNA folds. Indeed, it's spelled out in detail on this Wikipedia page on chromatin.
Is this information now obsolete?
mod parent up +1 inthawteful, plz.
Wouldn't this cause problems with perfusion? As I understand it, the arteries absorb some of the force of the heart's contraction due to their elasticity, and reuse it when they contract in turn to send the blood to more distal points in the body. It's been suggested that increased arterial stiffness is associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, and it seems like this might cause a similar effect over time. If you're getting an artificial heart, perhaps this point is moot, and from the story, it sounds like she doesn't have a choice, but I wonder if it would be an issue.
This serves as well, I believe:
Monsanto v Schmeiser
Bear in mind that director Peter Jackson did "Dead Alive", as well as "Meet the Feebles". I never saw anyone taking a lawnmower to a crowd of rat-monkey zombies or a huge finale piece with the chorus line "I enjoy the act of sodomy" in LOTR.
I grant, I haven't yet seen the director's cut.
Are they real? I know there's a lot of knockoffs right now that are supposed to be indistinguishable from a distance. Wired ran a story about them very recently.
Sam Robert Jacob Christinson...Someone may confuse me with them
Sam Robert Jacob Christinson,
His name is my name too.
Whenever we go out
The people always shout,
"There goes Sam Robert Jacob Christinson."
What kind of LaTEX do you need to be writing? If it's just mathematics, and you're on linux or osx, you may want to consider LaTeXiT. It renders equations to pdf and image formats, one of which I know for sure you can embed in a google document. It also lets you maintain libraries of equations, so you can modify them later.
I used it recently, in conjunction with Apple keynote for the Mac. It was far easier to deal with just the math LaTEX subset, and only at points where I needed it. I imagine a non-technical audience may agree.
Laequed purports to do something similar for windows. Haven't tried it myself.
What was your AFSC, just out of curiosity? I searched quite a bit for programming positions while I was in as targets for cross training. It sounds like it's best that I wasn't successful, from how you're describing it.
This is a huge issue for me. There were some issues with hardware encoded locking with the 6th generation ipods (the ipod nano with the video screen). Prior iPods could be mounted and the music interchange performed with a variety of different linux software packages. These newer versions could be mounted and read, but writes just plain failed.
I had just finished purchasing a nano for my sister for christmas as well (I had previously set her up with an ubuntu box). She's having to use a roommate's XP box to do the transfer. This is an area where Apple has done far worse than just drop the ball, in my book. I've been an Apple fan for awhile, but they lost a lot of my goodwill when I discovered this move.
People who own Wiis wouldn't even think of looking for a Prince of Persia game... they're looking for sudoku or mini-games to shake the Wiimote around a bit.
I have to disagree with this last statement. I was just visiting a friend who owned a Wii, and had Splinter Cell: Double Agent for it. While by and large the games he owned would live up to your statement, it's not always true.
The game was fairly difficult as well, primarily due to usage of the Wii remote and the nunchuk adapter in conjunction to move and shoot. Far cry from most Wii games. I don't own a Wii (yet), but the fact that both types are available is very appealing to me, as that means I can enjoy this type of game myself, and still have the more out-of-the-box-intuitive games that everyone can enjoy.
I never did this in scouts, but it looks like this might be what you're talking about?
from what I understand, it now works like this?:
Halliburton: We're suing you for violating our patent.
Random_company: How can that be your patent! We've had that as company trade secret for -
Halliburton (interrupts): and now we're suing you for discovering our patent troll, which could only be done by violating our patent on the discovery process for patent trolling.