An Allstate policy covering my entire apartment, my home machines and my laptop (including accidental damage and theft) was cheaper than SafeWare's policy for just the laptop.
Some other insurers (like State Farm) want laptops on a separate rider.
Be sure to check the specifics if you go this route. Some insurers only cover your property while it's in your home or apartment. Allstate only covers 10% if my machine is in another residence and I'm not present when it's lost, stolen, or broken.
Man, I remember when we had metal Tonka Trucks with dangerous corners. Chinese kids have toys made of folded tin with the razor sharp corners and edges.
Now and then a kid bled, and he learned a lesson about being reckless. You could count the number of resulting deaths on fewer fingers than it took to count kids struck by lightning.
Now we're Nerfing the world, and kids are growing up without any common sense or practical caution.
The point I didn't address was your complaint against consumerism. If you equate that to prostitution, I'm afraid I can't find a rational response. Even Lasn/AdBusters doesn't take it that far.
Hell, even without the implied prostitution, it is indefensible
Please play the game before you make this kind of comment. You gather a posse -- boys and girls. At no point does the game suggest that you're acquiring a girlfriend or a boyfriend. The people you gather in your posse stand courtside and cheer you on as you play. Period.
Do me a favor and play the game before taking the article for its word. In the game you acquire friends -- girls and boys. And all of the female images were cleared by the ESRB. You're being joined by women (and men) dressed far more tastefully than your average modern school student.
I bought a three year warranty for my HP laptop, and they promise next-day on-site service anywhere in the US. I'm sure HP hasn't got reps in every city on the continent. So how does this normally work? Where do the reps come from?
I'm a fan of the Hauppauge WinTV PCI cards. You can find them cheap on ebay, as little as $20. And they work just fine with Linux (bt848). No HDTV, telecine deinterlacing and such like the newer Hauppauge cards, but cheap & fine under Linux is good.
The WinTV PCI Radio (or PCI FM) is the same card with an FM radio tuner as well -- the radio also works just fine under Linux.
There are a few other bt848 and bt878 cards out there as well. While they're a little old, they've got one especially cool feature many other cards don't: card-to-card bus mastering. With most modern video cards, you can have the cards talk to each other directly and the TV card uses zero CPU cycles -- just a smidge of bus contention when you're banging on video.
That said, the card can be a bit of a bitch with Windows XP. Hauppauge's driver engineers haven't kept the drivers very well up to date.
When I was developing for Windows platform, I never needed any documentation other than MSDN.
Then you only worked on small projects, or you had a lot of tolerance for wrong and outdated documentation.
I wonder how many Linux developers looked at the sources of the APIs they use. I have never did such a thing.
That's because you couldn't.
Once you get used to building projects where you can view data paths from end to end with no opaque blocks in the middle, and once you get used to being able to compile debug code into any and every library, you'll never want to go back.
MS is already pushing XML-RPC. They would love the web to turn into a network of XML-RPC applications with a rich desktop interface, rather than a bunch of server-local copies of stuff with a dumb client.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Most of what's out there is regurgitated AP and Reuters news. It's good stuff, mostly. But it's also very incomplete, and too easily controlled. You can pay for press releases to be put out on the wire, and aren't even directly flagged as such by the time they're posted by many newspapers and news sites.
"apple's just doing what it needs to remain in business"
No, they're doing what they see maximizing profit even if it's not in the users' best interest, just like any other business. They're no different than the Nikes and the Microsofts in this regard.
Hey, if one studio/team/developer isn't effecting a positive return, it doesn't matter if the company is in the black or not. EA isn't a charity any more than any other business is.
I have read thousands of Slash posts, and I promise you that being funny has never been a problem.
Seriously. I've read Dilbert and User Friendly, and what passes for +1 Funny with you folks isn't. It's complaining with community tech jargon thrown in, or it's complaining, or it's misuse of community jargon by outsiders.
I'm not the only one who's made this observation. You guys need a serious humor overhaul. Look to some humor sources from better-adjusted people to fully understand your problem.
LOL, I hate Monday too, John Arbuckle. Let's see what ole Marmaduke's up to.
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Some other insurers (like State Farm) want laptops on a separate rider.
Be sure to check the specifics if you go this route. Some insurers only cover your property while it's in your home or apartment. Allstate only covers 10% if my machine is in another residence and I'm not present when it's lost, stolen, or broken.
Hollywood is a largely liberal institution. It's exempt from many forms of government-sponsored corporate abuse that plague other markets.
Now and then a kid bled, and he learned a lesson about being reckless. You could count the number of resulting deaths on fewer fingers than it took to count kids struck by lightning.
Now we're Nerfing the world, and kids are growing up without any common sense or practical caution.
The point I didn't address was your complaint against consumerism. If you equate that to prostitution, I'm afraid I can't find a rational response. Even Lasn/AdBusters doesn't take it that far.
Try it! The best result is in the blue box at the top!
I'm curious if these are even being made by Tulip, or if they're just placing the Commodore brand on some cheap Taiwanese imports.
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Do me a favor and play the game before taking the article for its word. In the game you acquire friends -- girls and boys. And all of the female images were cleared by the ESRB. You're being joined by women (and men) dressed far more tastefully than your average modern school student.
Ballers wasn't our favorite choice, but we couldn't get management to agree to "Shootin' in the Hood."
I bought a three year warranty for my HP laptop, and they promise next-day on-site service anywhere in the US. I'm sure HP hasn't got reps in every city on the continent. So how does this normally work? Where do the reps come from?
The same people also run Sub300.com, for any who find Canadian currency to be challenging.
The WinTV PCI Radio (or PCI FM) is the same card with an FM radio tuner as well -- the radio also works just fine under Linux.
There are a few other bt848 and bt878 cards out there as well. While they're a little old, they've got one especially cool feature many other cards don't: card-to-card bus mastering. With most modern video cards, you can have the cards talk to each other directly and the TV card uses zero CPU cycles -- just a smidge of bus contention when you're banging on video.
That said, the card can be a bit of a bitch with Windows XP. Hauppauge's driver engineers haven't kept the drivers very well up to date.
Once you get used to building projects where you can view data paths from end to end with no opaque blocks in the middle, and once you get used to being able to compile debug code into any and every library, you'll never want to go back.
MS is already pushing XML-RPC. They would love the web to turn into a network of XML-RPC applications with a rich desktop interface, rather than a bunch of server-local copies of stuff with a dumb client.
It's all good. I don't take the karma thing personally. :)
But to a tennis player, love means nothing.
Most of what's out there is regurgitated AP and Reuters news. It's good stuff, mostly. But it's also very incomplete, and too easily controlled. You can pay for press releases to be put out on the wire, and aren't even directly flagged as such by the time they're posted by many newspapers and news sites.
No, they're doing what they see maximizing profit even if it's not in the users' best interest, just like any other business. They're no different than the Nikes and the Microsofts in this regard.
That said, I'm first in line for the coffee-cooled PowerBook thermos.
And sometimes, they just sit on the front page of Slashdot.
Hey, if one studio/team/developer isn't effecting a positive return, it doesn't matter if the company is in the black or not. EA isn't a charity any more than any other business is.
Hey-oooo! Debian versioning joke!!!
I have read thousands of Slash posts, and I promise you that being funny has never been a problem.
Seriously. I've read Dilbert and User Friendly, and what passes for +1 Funny with you folks isn't. It's complaining with community tech jargon thrown in, or it's complaining, or it's misuse of community jargon by outsiders.
I'm not the only one who's made this observation. You guys need a serious humor overhaul. Look to some humor sources from better-adjusted people to fully understand your problem.
LOL, I hate Monday too, John Arbuckle. Let's see what ole Marmaduke's up to.
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