Just call them. I just did this a week ago. A laptop got so riddled with spyware that it was worthless. The recovery CD was a partial recovery - not full. For that you had to call Hell and have them ship you out the real thing. I have WinXP Home on cd - so i install it on the laptop and give it the laptop's key. It chokes of course. So I call the number provided and chat with a Microserf who gives me some insane 45 digit number to type in - now it Just Works. No hassle, no fuss. Give them a call, it may work.
Actually the dicotomy of the public's attitudes between the two always struck me as odd. The Harry Potter books are great fun and if they get a kid to read, even better. But at least around here they did spreads in the paper about how HP "taught" witchcraft to kids. Pretty scary. But here is a list for you - from the ALA I will give you three guesses as to why Ms Rowling is on that list. And you are right "universally" is t0o strong a word, and tongue-in-cheek never transmits on the web like you want it to.
For instance, around the time LOTR:FOTR came out his magazine ran an article that attempted to claim that LOTR was Christian allegory.
Actually that is old news to the Tolkien folk. If you search around you will find that His works have always been well recieved by the greater christian community, Compare that to any Harry Potter book, universally reviled as witchcraft, satanist, and evil. Good or bad the original Tolkien books were loved by the christian orthodoxy. It has been said that the acceptance of them has been due to JRR's conversion to Catholocism. I dont know. The Triolgy has been given many meanings through the years - the Ring as Nuclear power, as Race relations, as a simple life vs the worldly one. For me, it only showed how different the original Artist's product is different than how the original Artist meant it to be. For me, they are the best stories ever told.
....Of course you wrote this up. And of course you are willing to help newbies. Ah? No? Then it NEVER HAPPENED. Even if you saw it/made it happen. Welcome to the world of testable results. If you did this - post the results and methods for ALL of us to see.
My Plant Systemics professor Dr Doebley said that the greatest amount of speciation occurs when plants and creatures are wiped out. Essentially, if you nuked the amazon rain forest flat, you would create the largest amount of species ever. The reason being is what you quoted. The only way to truly define a species is to stop it from evolving, and that is only possible when they all are dead.
...or it could be the fact that BF2 is a bloated pile of festering code. I have the game, and my clan has fought on it many a time (I am a gunny sgt). If I can play Doom3/HL2 maxed out on my system and yet have the same BF2 video issues that you seem to, it tells me that it is the game not the card.
You beat me to it. Great the new MS autocode strongs a space...wow count me underwhelmed. Last I allowed Word generated HTML it produced a 600K file of a 4 page all text.doc. All of the office products are astonishingly bad at producing html.
I know, lets use 3 Astronouts, not 5, it will be cheaper. And instead of a space station, how about a space ship. And then...we will place it 6 years in the past instead of the future like this Shadowrun game...yeah ooooh, I got the name!! How about : "2001: a paranoid Odyssey" huh?;)
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StarshipTroopers, Johnny Mnemonic
, I could go on. So Hollywood and gaming are converging. Great. I wish they would let tinsel town keep their bad ways to themselves, and out of gaming.
How about finding three friends that want to play your real time strategy game that don't own the game? My intro to Halo was going over to someone's house to get thrashed by them all the time. He had an xbox - I didn't. Maybe you have friends that like that - I don't. Chances are that anyone that wants to multiplay those games with you already owns the system. Now the four players are out $2k regardless, and we are back to PC's are better for gaming.
The grandparent's comments about longswords is about the fact that in modern nomenclature there is no difference between a dnd broadsword and a dnd longsword. They do not exist as seperate entities. The gp is also correct about bastard swords. A bastard sword is (traditionally) a blade of equal length to a broadsword, or a bit more, but with extra length to the hilt. This allowed the man weilding it to do what came naturally, grab and swing with both hands. Making it "exotic" is like making a two handed back-hand in tennis and "exotic" skill. It is a common fallacy than a fully armored knight was cumbersome and slow. Slow on a battlefield means dead on a battlefield. The rules in the game are a mechanic, so that everyone isn't running around in plate mail 24/7 - they are not meant to be a reflection of reality (or that is what I keep telling myself).
There was a Dragon issue ages ago where some of the editorial staff went out to a boffer fight and came away some revelations such as that shields are worth far more than +1.
And no, I am no armchair warrior. I have made the stuff before. And trust me, you work there, you have to know your history.
My brother supervises a staff of 50. He is responsible for *everything* they do. From the smallest comment, to the largest gaffe. He is scrutinized by hundreds of people every working day, and even every night. His total budget is in the millions, which has accountants, internal, external, and armchair crawling over it all the time. The performance of his customers is judged every day, and many times by the Feds,the State, and by the customers. He is an Elementary School Principle. His salary is under 100k, in the richest school district in the state ( and a very rich state at that ). None of you has been there. Stop the "When I was still in school,...." Crap - you were a student, like you knew shit about the inner workings of the District. And here is a shocker from the parent "At least at the district my husband works in, the administrators make much more than the teachers, " WOW - Admins make more than the people they supervise???? say it aint so!!! Her further arg drags in the whole "more admin" thing - What were they? Teacher Specialists in many places are considered Administration, yeah, sucks they hired more Special Ed teachers. I have seen the other side, School Admins make every dime in thier pay.
I think what they are trying to get at is that you may not use some software of your own creation to use the Passport Network to harm MS or it's affliates. Essentially, if you sign up and see a flaw you can't exploit it.
Capt - When you do look into it start with HARP The 'light' rules are free to download(Caution pdf). You will find combat slow till you get used to it, once you do it is usually quick and bloody. And the full rules are a $10 pdf. Good luck - it is a great game.
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This post is official rules. I am a DM, I am not your DM, and this is not rule advice.
Yup, he is. Doom3 will never be on any level as Citizen Kane. And the knee-jerk reaction is to twst it back, Citizen Kane is no Doom3. But I guess I would go the other way. Doom3 is no Citizen Kane, but no film version or Romeo and Juliet is worth even a spirited High School performance of that play. To take it even further, No modern performance of Romeo and Juliet can even hold a candle to reading it, if you have had the proper education to understand it, or lived the originals. So here we are, back to reading. Mr Ebert, you are right, the new media isn't as good as the old media, but your films suffers from the same.
I also happen to disagree with the whole "expertise" issue. I would say that true 'expertise' is a 'nerd' factor, not a geek one.
By your def you are a geek. You know html, sql, css, and bits of Perl. This makes you above 99.9% of internet users. I work as a sys admin/web dev... mentioning learning html to the college professors that I serve makes thier blood run cold. The article confuses knowledge of science as "geeky" with what it means to be a computer 'geek' these days. Geeks are computer people, not science people, calling science people 'geeks' is so off the mark, it really is insulting. It is like calling any religeous person a 'fundie', or anyone who lives south of the Mason-Dixon line a 'Hick'. Your intellectual curiousity launches you up above the general populace. Enjoy that, you are a geek, we have reclaimed the word, and it is OK. Part of geekdom is to be thoughtful about all of the sciences without being a scientist - and that is great too.
You sir are a geek, you may not look, act, or smell the part, but you are, and that is a good thing, welcome.
Not to be a troll, but didn't they release a patch for Vista for the.wmv vuln? Seems there is legacy code in there after all. On a side note - you wouldn't know anyone who still has the old Karnath (Karnack?) code from MECC would you?
...You really are an asshole that drags down the entire profession.You should be disbarred. You represent everything that is wrong with being a lawyer.
It just isn't annoying - it is downright dumb. Yes, CS is the bastard child of Mathematics, but we have grown up now, we can walk on our own two legs. When I went for my BS in CS, I got to speak to the head of IT recruitment for the U of MN. They had at the time the requirement that you have 4 5cr classes of calculus and 2 5cr classes of calculus based physics. Which if you add it all up is one total year of pure math/physics (15cr/sem 2sems/yr) I though of all the computer languages out there (yes, I know learn one set of principles - apply to many languages) But add in all the theory, the algorythms, and Discrete Math ( I would still like to have more course work in discrete) and I had to wonder. So I asked why in the world would you require a year of this stuff? His answer, and I quote "To turn out well rounded graduates.". I asked if the U offered literature, anthropology, philosophy, forien languages. He said yes and looked confused. I walked away.
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Actually that is old news to the Tolkien folk. If you search around you will find that His works have always been well recieved by the greater christian community, Compare that to any Harry Potter book, universally reviled as witchcraft, satanist, and evil. Good or bad the original Tolkien books were loved by the christian orthodoxy. It has been said that the acceptance of them has been due to JRR's conversion to Catholocism. I dont know. The Triolgy has been given many meanings through the years - the Ring as Nuclear power, as Race relations, as a simple life vs the worldly one. For me, it only showed how different the original Artist's product is different than how the original Artist meant it to be. For me, they are the best stories ever told.
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....Of course you wrote this up. And of course you are willing to help newbies. Ah? No? Then it NEVER HAPPENED. Even if you saw it/made it happen. Welcome to the world of testable results. If you did this - post the results and methods for ALL of us to see.
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How about finding three friends that want to play your real time strategy game that don't own the game? My intro to Halo was going over to someone's house to get thrashed by them all the time. He had an xbox - I didn't. Maybe you have friends that like that - I don't. Chances are that anyone that wants to multiplay those games with you already owns the system. Now the four players are out $2k regardless, and we are back to PC's are better for gaming.
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There was a Dragon issue ages ago where some of the editorial staff went out to a boffer fight and came away some revelations such as that shields are worth far more than +1.
And no, I am no armchair warrior. I have made the stuff before. And trust me, you work there, you have to know your history.
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This post is official rules. I am a DM, I am not your DM, and this is not rule advice.
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I also happen to disagree with the whole "expertise" issue. I would say that true 'expertise' is a 'nerd' factor, not a geek one.
By your def you are a geek. You know html, sql, css, and bits of Perl. This makes you above 99.9% of internet users. I work as a sys admin/web dev ... mentioning learning html to the college professors that I serve makes thier blood run cold. The article confuses knowledge of science as "geeky" with what it means to be a computer 'geek' these days. Geeks are computer people, not science people, calling science people 'geeks' is so off the mark, it really is insulting. It is like calling any religeous person a 'fundie', or anyone who lives south of the Mason-Dixon line a 'Hick'. Your intellectual curiousity launches you up above the general populace. Enjoy that, you are a geek, we have reclaimed the word, and it is OK. Part of geekdom is to be thoughtful about all of the sciences without being a scientist - and that is great too.
You sir are a geek, you may not look, act, or smell the part, but you are, and that is a good thing, welcome.
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...You really are an asshole that drags down the entire profession.You should be disbarred. You represent everything that is wrong with being a lawyer.
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