> Has any sci-fi show other than Firefly ever mentioned duct tape?
Apollo 13 featured duct tape prominently as part of the repair job for the LM's CO2 scrubber. Of course, that actually happened. So I don't know that it properly counts as sci-fi. But I've always assumed that at least *part* of that movie was played up beyond actual events for cinematic drama.
Which episode of Firefly mentions duct tape? It's been a while since I've seen the show.
Relatively few humans are crazy enough to swim near the Golden Gates in the first place. There's a reason Alcatraz was such a secure prison, despite being a fairly short swim away from San Francisco; and it has nothing to do with sharks. Hypothermia, fast tides and currents, a rocky coastline, and a major shipping channel are not very conducive to happyfunbeachday.
Look who you're replying to. He's probably fixed it himself by now. In fact, he's probably re-wired and re-programed the whole thing to get at least 25% better mileage and acceleration by now.
If by "used and stabbed in the back", you mean: "Made into both a millionaire (hundreds of times over) and a household name celebrated by untold millions as being synonymous with genius and innovation"; then sign me up.
After all, where else does a sudden uptick in nitrous oxide emissions come from?
The ricers and rocketry enthusiasts burn it up in their engines. The hippies and dental patients metabolize it. So where else would more nitrous in the environment be coming from except from the relatively recent proliferation of gourmet coffee shops?
Outing drug undercovers is only a bad thing if you agree wholeheartedly with the war on drugs.
There are plenty of reasons why one would quite legitimately oppose the WOD that don't boil down to "being a druggie and wanting to get high." Maybe you believe in civil liberties as a matter of general principle, and think that it's none of the government's business what one puts in their own body. Maybe you believe that drug use or abuse should be treated as a public health matter, not a criminal matter. Maybe you look at the cost of keeping someone incarcerated and the potential tax revenue from legal drug sales and believe that the cost/benefit analyses would come down solidly on legalization and taxation, even if you did have to pay for some addiction treatment programs. Maybe you live in a state where the police and prison guards' unions have an inordinate amount of political power which they keep up by in part by keeping as many things criminal and as many people in prison as possible, power which they regularly abuse; and you'd like to see them knocked down a few notches. Maybe you know the history of the war on drugs, and how it was originally ratcheted up mostly in order to suppress ethnic and cultural groups that Washington wanted to demonize at the time (Chinese, then Hispanics, then the Peace Movement); and you think that's wrong... evil even.
Maybe, as is the case with myself; all of the above apply.
Honestly... After years upon of goatse.cx, tubgirl, and penis bird links; can you blame someone for not clicking on a link out from slashdot?
And no, the link being in the summary is no protection. I recall at least three separate cases when some poor individual had his server crushed by a slashdotting and did a redirect to goatse.cx out of either spite or mischievousness.
I've always enjoyed using them more like virtual building blocks then playing the actual game.
Instead of starting small and building naturally building up a city or household; I'd use the money cheats hardcore. Then I'd start from scratch and zone out a city I'd think would be really cool to live in, or a house that I'd think would be awesome to live in. Then, in Simcity, I'd money cheat a lot more so I'd never have to worry about a budget, and set the tax rates really low to get my population up and city built so I could admire it. In The Sims, I'd move a token family in and dork around with them for a bit to make sure the house design wasn't completely dysfunctional. But I'd usually get bored fairly quickly and move on to the next cool city or house I wanted to design.
I think it comes from having been more of a Lego kid than a Gi-Joe kid growing up.
A delay now is not really a big deal, as far as I'm concerned.
LAN play represented about about 75-85% of the value of the original Starcraft to me. I don't give a rats ass about my ranking or achievements on the ladder. And the collection of asshats that passes itself off as a "community" on battle.net is the main reason I never set foot in WoW. So without LAN functionality, all I've got left is the sliver of the game represented by the single-player campaigns. With only that small fraction of the total value available to me in the first place, I'm planning on waiting until Starcraft 2 is in the bargain bin or battle chest pack anyway. An extra six months on top of that is no big deal.
And wow, that list has grown over the years. It used to be able to be printed on both sides of one piece of paper. I'd leave a copy in my car. And when the ocasion hit me to go music shopping, I'd bring it with me and if the label was on the list, I'd only buy the CD if it was available used.
Used CDs have three big advantages. They're cheaper to guy, obviously. The profit margin for the store is higher; and music stores that sell used CDs tend to be locally-owned independent stores, not the big chains. And, best of all, the RIAA doesn' see a penny from used sales. You get to have your cake and eat it too.
These days, I don't even bother with the list. I simply ONLY buy used unless Im buying directly from the band or DJ. That both simplifies and cheapens things.
Apple, Google, Cisco, Juniper, HP, and Sun come pretty much immediately to mind as major engineering players known for liberal cultures which vary from mildly to extremely. Heck... even most of the Oracle and IBM types I've known, in recent years, seem to be fairly left-minded. If you restrict your sample to power, mining, and defense; OF COURSE you're going to find lots of conservatives. Those three industries are about the biggest recipients of republican government largesse there are. And if you want to play the anecdotal "evidence" game; I know a guy who used to work at NASA Ames before starting his own company... also quite literally a rocket scientist... and he's one of the most *liberal* people I've ever known.
I like that book a lot too. There's also a sequel to it out now that deals just with foods you shop for at the grocery store.
I also have a really handy iPhone app called (simply enough) Restaurant Nutrition. It has most of the major chains, and is kept fairly up to date with menu changes. Because... let's face it... sometimes the choice is to either eat at a chain or just not eat. So you may as well be informed. And there are some absolute shockers in there. My jaw damn near hit the floor when I found out that what I thought was a reasonable and modest sandwich at Quiznos was actually 870 calories, with half of them from fat. Turns out it's actually a better choice (Still not a very good choice, mind you, but better.) to go to Taco Bell and chow down.. fewer calories and less fat.
The bottom line is... that if I want to do the hackintosh thing, I'll do it myself thank-you-very-much. In fact, I've been seriously considering picking up a netbook and doing exactly that. Basically, the only thing holding me back is the wait to see what comes out at WWDC. And even then, I still may just roll my own. But I accept that, in that case, I'm on my own if something goes wrong.
But if I'm actually going to pay a company to build my computer for me; to my mind, I'm not paying just for some drone to pull the parts off the shelf and throw the mess into a box. I'm paying for support and service. Can I get AppleCare for these psystar boxes? If it breaks, can I run it down the road to the Apple store and have a Genius fix it for me? Is psystar going to provide someone to talk me through twenty minutes of the merits and flaws of Parallels vs VMware and let me try both out on a demo machine before I make a choice? Somehow, I think not.
Just to play devil's advocate for half a second; there's something in this story that's been bothering me...
> surely if a law enforcement official is on the phone
Just how the heck do you authenticate that the person on the other end of the phone is, in fact, a law enforcement officer and not some random screwball playing phone games? More to the point, how does a tier-1 support drone make this determination? CallerID is worthless. If the support number is a toll-free, there's ANI; but again, do you expect a tier-1 support drone to know the difference? And even if either could be relied upon, there's no guarantee that the number this supposed LEO is calling from is even registered in the department's name in the first place.
That leaves the option of the officer giving his name, department, and badge number. But how do you authenticate THAT???
To be fair, I think the reason the second movie sucked is that Ghostbusters was at the hight of its popularity at the time. There was a cartoon currently being produced. And the American animation industry STILL hasn't quite gotten the notion that animation can be an adult medium and tell adult stories with adult themes. The Ghostbusters cartoon was quite obnoxiously kiddiefied. And instead of trying to recapture the spirit of the original movie; Ghostbusters tried to emulate the kiddiefied cartoon, with the now infamous results.
If that pack of SNL-at-its-prime comedians are allowed to make a proper SNL-inspired movie, like they did the first time; I suspect it'll be much better than the dumbed-down and sanitized "for the children's sake" sequel.
Don't ships' navigators still train on sextants and chronometers?!?!?
I don't know if it's a holdover from my days as a boy scout or what, but I almost always have a backup, and a backup of the backup of anything critical to my survival. And if I ever get rich enough to own my own ocean-going vessel, *I* sure wouldn't put to sea without a sextant and the training to use it. And I'm just some not-a-professional-ship's-navigator schmuck.
Apple has caved to AT&T in ways that sully their brand before.
The biggest example is the in-store-activation-only fiasco with the 3G launch. Compare and contrast that experience versus the original iPhone; when you could go in, plonk down your money, get the hell out of there, go home, and activate at your leisure. That idiocy alone pretty much guarantees that as soon as the iPhone is available on another carrier, I'll be dropping AT&T.
Apple has also pulled apps from the store at AT&T's behest. And despite by "unlimited 3g data" plan, if I want to download the arger apps or podcast episodes; I can't do so over the cellular data network; I have to connect to WiFi.
Granted... *I* know that none of that is inherent to the iPhone itself; but to AT&T's asshattery. But I suspect that there are plenty of people out there who don't quite make the distinction between the two; and who see Apple as something less than they should because of it.
Yeah... I was especially peeved during the confederate rocket episode when they censored the era-appropriate method for making nitrous oxide. If I wasted NOS to put to nefarious ends, I could just pop out to either the head shops in the Haight, or the ricer shops in Viz Valley; depending on the nefarious purpose I had in mind. There's no way the Mythbusters don't know this... either one is within a fifteen minute drive from M5 with good traffic. So getting nitrous oxide is no problem whatsoever. Food-grade or automotive-grade... just plonk down the cash, you get NOS.
But I had no idea that people knew how to make and store the stuff during the civil war era. It would have been genuinely interesting and educational to know exactly how.
In all fairness to Star Trek, the "greek gods come to life" episode explained away greek mythology as advanced aliens who settled on Earth and were MISTAKEN as gods by ancient humanity. Part of Roddenberry's vision was that, in the future, we'd improve ourselves and advance beyond things like greed, war, poverty, racism, and religion. In fact, he kind of flogged the audience over the head with that occasionally. Remember how profoundly offended Picard was when a scientist once suggested that he set himself up as a godhead and lay down a set of commandments to repair an accidental violation of the prime directive?
Then, of course, Roddenberry died and hacks like Berman et. al. brought religion back for DS9, even going so far as to make captain Cisco into the messiah... *sigh* and *ugh*
Wait... didn't RDM have a major part in DS9's writing and production?
Farscape is a distant memory. Stargate has long since ended; and it sucked pretty hard anyway once they lost Richard Dean Anderson. Doctor Who has lost David Tennant. And Battlestar is about to end. So what's left? Seriously... what reason is left to tune in at all?
SciFi, SyFy, SF, whatever they call it. I doubt I'll be watching anyway.
> And forget agriculture, Japan will do whatever it takes to keep their farms intact, > for instance, there is a 700% import tariff on rice. That's right, seven hundred per cent.
You were doing good until this bit of rubbish led you to fall flat on your face.
Yes, Japan goes out of their way to keep their local agriculture in business. But that has nothing to do with protectionism or bigotry against other countries food products. You should see how much they're willing and HAPPY to pay for foreign produce. It's because they're an island nation. And there are very good (and very obvious) strategic reasons for an island nation to keep their local agriculture up and running, even if other countries can produce foodstuffs cheaper. And that applies even more when said island nation is on the doorstep of such nuclear armed and aggressively hostile neighbors as China and Russia and one completely batshit insane country which may or may not have nukes and has the habit of periodically firing missiles over Japan.
> The Chinese Navy would end up playing the game of spot-the-submarine, > and they'd probably do about as well as did the captain of the General Belgrano, > and then bugger off back to port; not that this would much advantage the Royal > Navy, who probably wouldn't want to park carriers off the Chinese coast
Since you bring up the Belgrano, why even involve surface combatants at all? The Royal Navy's submarine force is nuclear powered, and can remain on station as long as the Prussers Rum holds out. Just announce that the ports of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou are closed until further notice. There's not much for China to do then but either kowtow appropriately, go the ICBM route, or let their entire economy disintegrate.
Yah... at my high school; possessing... not even actually using, but just possessing while on campus... a cell phone, or even merely a pager, was considered grounds for long suspensions and even expulsion. The assumption was, as I recall, that such things were only carried by drug dealers. And if you owned one; well... you must be selling drugs too.
Not that I think one should be chattering or texting away in class anyway.... but DAMN.... high school faculty and administration are infested by some ass-backward neophobes.
I'm kind of surprised that there ARE enough Mac people still playing to fund development. And I'm not particularly surprised that the Linux client would be just as terrible to drive people away.
Say what you want about Blizzard, WoW-tards, and all that. But they don't leave major bugs unfixed and major features missing (Did they EVER bother to add the premium graphics to Mac or Linux?) on one platform versus the other.
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> Has any sci-fi show other than Firefly ever mentioned duct tape?
Apollo 13 featured duct tape prominently as part of the repair job for the LM's CO2 scrubber. Of course, that actually happened. So I don't know that it properly counts as sci-fi. But I've always assumed that at least *part* of that movie was played up beyond actual events for cinematic drama.
Which episode of Firefly mentions duct tape? It's been a while since I've seen the show.
Relatively few humans are crazy enough to swim near the Golden Gates in the first place. There's a reason Alcatraz was such a secure prison, despite being a fairly short swim away from San Francisco; and it has nothing to do with sharks. Hypothermia, fast tides and currents, a rocky coastline, and a major shipping channel are not very conducive to happyfunbeachday.
Look who you're replying to. He's probably fixed it himself by now. In fact, he's probably re-wired and re-programed the whole thing to get at least 25% better mileage and acceleration by now.
> And by "got involved" you mean befriended, C?
If by "used and stabbed in the back", you mean: "Made into both a millionaire (hundreds of times over) and a household name celebrated by untold millions as being synonymous with genius and innovation"; then sign me up.
After all, where else does a sudden uptick in nitrous oxide emissions come from?
The ricers and rocketry enthusiasts burn it up in their engines. The hippies and dental patients metabolize it. So where else would more nitrous in the environment be coming from except from the relatively recent proliferation of gourmet coffee shops?
Outing drug undercovers is only a bad thing if you agree wholeheartedly with the war on drugs.
There are plenty of reasons why one would quite legitimately oppose the WOD that don't boil down to "being a druggie and wanting to get high." Maybe you believe in civil liberties as a matter of general principle, and think that it's none of the government's business what one puts in their own body. Maybe you believe that drug use or abuse should be treated as a public health matter, not a criminal matter. Maybe you look at the cost of keeping someone incarcerated and the potential tax revenue from legal drug sales and believe that the cost/benefit analyses would come down solidly on legalization and taxation, even if you did have to pay for some addiction treatment programs. Maybe you live in a state where the police and prison guards' unions have an inordinate amount of political power which they keep up by in part by keeping as many things criminal and as many people in prison as possible, power which they regularly abuse; and you'd like to see them knocked down a few notches. Maybe you know the history of the war on drugs, and how it was originally ratcheted up mostly in order to suppress ethnic and cultural groups that Washington wanted to demonize at the time (Chinese, then Hispanics, then the Peace Movement); and you think that's wrong... evil even.
Maybe, as is the case with myself; all of the above apply.
Honestly... After years upon of goatse.cx, tubgirl, and penis bird links; can you blame someone for not clicking on a link out from slashdot?
And no, the link being in the summary is no protection. I recall at least three separate cases when some poor individual had his server crushed by a slashdotting and did a redirect to goatse.cx out of either spite or mischievousness.
I've always enjoyed using them more like virtual building blocks then playing the actual game.
Instead of starting small and building naturally building up a city or household; I'd use the money cheats hardcore. Then I'd start from scratch and zone out a city I'd think would be really cool to live in, or a house that I'd think would be awesome to live in. Then, in Simcity, I'd money cheat a lot more so I'd never have to worry about a budget, and set the tax rates really low to get my population up and city built so I could admire it. In The Sims, I'd move a token family in and dork around with them for a bit to make sure the house design wasn't completely dysfunctional. But I'd usually get bored fairly quickly and move on to the next cool city or house I wanted to design.
I think it comes from having been more of a Lego kid than a Gi-Joe kid growing up.
cya,
john
A delay now is not really a big deal, as far as I'm concerned.
LAN play represented about about 75-85% of the value of the original Starcraft to me. I don't give a rats ass about my ranking or achievements on the ladder. And the collection of asshats that passes itself off as a "community" on battle.net is the main reason I never set foot in WoW. So without LAN functionality, all I've got left is the sliver of the game represented by the single-player campaigns. With only that small fraction of the total value available to me in the first place, I'm planning on waiting until Starcraft 2 is in the bargain bin or battle chest pack anyway. An extra six months on top of that is no big deal.
cya,
john
Those three were Apollo astronauts. And only one on them had been part of Mercury.
They also provide a list of their members on their own website:
http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=aboutus_members
And wow, that list has grown over the years. It used to be able to be printed on both sides of one piece of paper. I'd leave a copy in my car. And when the ocasion hit me to go music shopping, I'd bring it with me and if the label was on the list, I'd only buy the CD if it was available used.
Used CDs have three big advantages. They're cheaper to guy, obviously. The profit margin for the store is higher; and music stores that sell used CDs tend to be locally-owned independent stores, not the big chains. And, best of all, the RIAA doesn' see a penny from used sales. You get to have your cake and eat it too.
These days, I don't even bother with the list. I simply ONLY buy used unless Im buying directly from the band or DJ. That both simplifies and cheapens things.
Apple, Google, Cisco, Juniper, HP, and Sun come pretty much immediately to mind as major engineering players known for liberal cultures which vary from mildly to extremely. Heck... even most of the Oracle and IBM types I've known, in recent years, seem to be fairly left-minded. If you restrict your sample to power, mining, and defense; OF COURSE you're going to find lots of conservatives. Those three industries are about the biggest recipients of republican government largesse there are. And if you want to play the anecdotal "evidence" game; I know a guy who used to work at NASA Ames before starting his own company... also quite literally a rocket scientist... and he's one of the most *liberal* people I've ever known.
I like that book a lot too. There's also a sequel to it out now that deals just with foods you shop for at the grocery store.
I also have a really handy iPhone app called (simply enough) Restaurant Nutrition. It has most of the major chains, and is kept fairly up to date with menu changes. Because... let's face it... sometimes the choice is to either eat at a chain or just not eat. So you may as well be informed. And there are some absolute shockers in there. My jaw damn near hit the floor when I found out that what I thought was a reasonable and modest sandwich at Quiznos was actually 870 calories, with half of them from fat. Turns out it's actually a better choice (Still not a very good choice, mind you, but better.) to go to Taco Bell and chow down.. fewer calories and less fat.
Exactly.
The bottom line is... that if I want to do the hackintosh thing, I'll do it myself thank-you-very-much. In fact, I've been seriously considering picking up a netbook and doing exactly that. Basically, the only thing holding me back is the wait to see what comes out at WWDC. And even then, I still may just roll my own. But I accept that, in that case, I'm on my own if something goes wrong.
But if I'm actually going to pay a company to build my computer for me; to my mind, I'm not paying just for some drone to pull the parts off the shelf and throw the mess into a box. I'm paying for support and service. Can I get AppleCare for these psystar boxes? If it breaks, can I run it down the road to the Apple store and have a Genius fix it for me? Is psystar going to provide someone to talk me through twenty minutes of the merits and flaws of Parallels vs VMware and let me try both out on a demo machine before I make a choice? Somehow, I think not.
cya,
john
Just to play devil's advocate for half a second; there's something in this story that's been bothering me...
> surely if a law enforcement official is on the phone
Just how the heck do you authenticate that the person on the other end of the phone is, in fact, a law enforcement officer and not some random screwball playing phone games? More to the point, how does a tier-1 support drone make this determination? CallerID is worthless. If the support number is a toll-free, there's ANI; but again, do you expect a tier-1 support drone to know the difference? And even if either could be relied upon, there's no guarantee that the number this supposed LEO is calling from is even registered in the department's name in the first place.
That leaves the option of the officer giving his name, department, and badge number. But how do you authenticate THAT???
To be fair, I think the reason the second movie sucked is that Ghostbusters was at the hight of its popularity at the time. There was a cartoon currently being produced. And the American animation industry STILL hasn't quite gotten the notion that animation can be an adult medium and tell adult stories with adult themes. The Ghostbusters cartoon was quite obnoxiously kiddiefied. And instead of trying to recapture the spirit of the original movie; Ghostbusters tried to emulate the kiddiefied cartoon, with the now infamous results.
If that pack of SNL-at-its-prime comedians are allowed to make a proper SNL-inspired movie, like they did the first time; I suspect it'll be much better than the dumbed-down and sanitized "for the children's sake" sequel.
cya,
john
Don't ships' navigators still train on sextants and chronometers?!?!?
I don't know if it's a holdover from my days as a boy scout or what, but I almost always have a backup, and a backup of the backup of anything critical to my survival. And if I ever get rich enough to own my own ocean-going vessel, *I* sure wouldn't put to sea without a sextant and the training to use it. And I'm just some not-a-professional-ship's-navigator schmuck.
Apple has caved to AT&T in ways that sully their brand before.
The biggest example is the in-store-activation-only fiasco with the 3G launch. Compare and contrast that experience versus the original iPhone; when you could go in, plonk down your money, get the hell out of there, go home, and activate at your leisure. That idiocy alone pretty much guarantees that as soon as the iPhone is available on another carrier, I'll be dropping AT&T.
Apple has also pulled apps from the store at AT&T's behest. And despite by "unlimited 3g data" plan, if I want to download the arger apps or podcast episodes; I can't do so over the cellular data network; I have to connect to WiFi.
Granted... *I* know that none of that is inherent to the iPhone itself; but to AT&T's asshattery. But I suspect that there are plenty of people out there who don't quite make the distinction between the two; and who see Apple as something less than they should because of it.
cya,
john
Yeah... I was especially peeved during the confederate rocket episode when they censored the era-appropriate method for making nitrous oxide. If I wasted NOS to put to nefarious ends, I could just pop out to either the head shops in the Haight, or the ricer shops in Viz Valley; depending on the nefarious purpose I had in mind. There's no way the Mythbusters don't know this... either one is within a fifteen minute drive from M5 with good traffic. So getting nitrous oxide is no problem whatsoever. Food-grade or automotive-grade... just plonk down the cash, you get NOS.
But I had no idea that people knew how to make and store the stuff during the civil war era. It would have been genuinely interesting and educational to know exactly how.
cya,
john
In all fairness to Star Trek, the "greek gods come to life" episode explained away greek mythology as advanced aliens who settled on Earth and were MISTAKEN as gods by ancient humanity. Part of Roddenberry's vision was that, in the future, we'd improve ourselves and advance beyond things like greed, war, poverty, racism, and religion. In fact, he kind of flogged the audience over the head with that occasionally. Remember how profoundly offended Picard was when a scientist once suggested that he set himself up as a godhead and lay down a set of commandments to repair an accidental violation of the prime directive?
Then, of course, Roddenberry died and hacks like Berman et. al. brought religion back for DS9, even going so far as to make captain Cisco into the messiah... *sigh* and *ugh*
Wait... didn't RDM have a major part in DS9's writing and production?
What does it matter?
Farscape is a distant memory. Stargate has long since ended; and it sucked pretty hard anyway once they lost Richard Dean Anderson. Doctor Who has lost David Tennant. And Battlestar is about to end. So what's left? Seriously... what reason is left to tune in at all?
SciFi, SyFy, SF, whatever they call it. I doubt I'll be watching anyway.
> And forget agriculture, Japan will do whatever it takes to keep their farms intact,
> for instance, there is a 700% import tariff on rice. That's right, seven hundred per cent.
You were doing good until this bit of rubbish led you to fall flat on your face.
Yes, Japan goes out of their way to keep their local agriculture in business. But that has nothing to do with protectionism or bigotry against other countries food products. You should see how much they're willing and HAPPY to pay for foreign produce. It's because they're an island nation. And there are very good (and very obvious) strategic reasons for an island nation to keep their local agriculture up and running, even if other countries can produce foodstuffs cheaper. And that applies even more when said island nation is on the doorstep of such nuclear armed and aggressively hostile neighbors as China and Russia and one completely batshit insane country which may or may not have nukes and has the habit of periodically firing missiles over Japan.
cya,
john
> The Chinese Navy would end up playing the game of spot-the-submarine,
> and they'd probably do about as well as did the captain of the General Belgrano,
> and then bugger off back to port; not that this would much advantage the Royal
> Navy, who probably wouldn't want to park carriers off the Chinese coast
Since you bring up the Belgrano, why even involve surface combatants at all? The Royal Navy's submarine force is nuclear powered, and can remain on station as long as the Prussers Rum holds out. Just announce that the ports of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou are closed until further notice. There's not much for China to do then but either kowtow appropriately, go the ICBM route, or let their entire economy disintegrate.
cya,
john
Yah... at my high school; possessing... not even actually using, but just possessing while on campus... a cell phone, or even merely a pager, was considered grounds for long suspensions and even expulsion. The assumption was, as I recall, that such things were only carried by drug dealers. And if you owned one; well... you must be selling drugs too.
Not that I think one should be chattering or texting away in class anyway.... but DAMN.... high school faculty and administration are infested by some ass-backward neophobes.
cya,
john
I'm kind of surprised that there ARE enough Mac people still playing to fund development. And I'm not particularly surprised that the Linux client would be just as terrible to drive people away.
Say what you want about Blizzard, WoW-tards, and all that. But they don't leave major bugs unfixed and major features missing (Did they EVER bother to add the premium graphics to Mac or Linux?) on one platform versus the other.
cya,
john