I too am dutch living in america and I have to kindly disagree with you. While I am not proud of many americans your generalization simply does apply broadly across europe. For example, when I was in Switzerland last, near Lake Como, they spoke exclusively Italian, and to the west, French, and they all spoke hochdeutch, but not necessarily first. Now, which of these languages is Swiss? Oh, what is that you say? There is no language called Swiss? Frankly, I'm a bit astounded she actually made the leap to German. Mexicans don't speak Mexican either. Unless you are familiar enough to know the dutch (which is hardly a common language here) have their own language, german is a fair assessment, and don't get me started on Flemish. Praise Buddha for dutch humor though, it is among the best in the world.
When I worked for the government, we were allowed to book $120 per night hotel rooms. Outrageous. Really government workers should not receive more than half that allowance ($60) and book at places like Motel 6 or Super 8.
That must be a joke. The "government" is a big place, federal? state? local? I work for Washington State and our per diem is on a sliding scale based on location. Rural work our hotel is just $35, with a $20 meal allowance (all three meals). I won't describe some of the flea bag places i've had to stay in. in major markets, like san francisco, the rate goes up to $120 which, depending on the season, can be hard to accommodate. I don't know what agency you were with but don't shoehorn all "government" into a single group.
for legion as they don't get it. being a long time A/V specialist at an R1 state university I understand your issue completely. For everyone else, the problem with any proprietary system is we need to bring in collaborators from across the world so dedicated hardware is usually not an acceptable solution, though we do use our polycom whenever possible. They need to be able to grab a client that is free or nearly so and easy to setup and use. A web based solution would be idea (one used to exist though I forget the name IPVX maybe?) There are great dedicated solutions out there but as far as I can tell, no cross platform desktop solutions that support multipoint calls. We have been playing with Skype but as others have noted, in a classroom or even meeting room sized event locations it completely falls down. Polycom PVX software has been good but only for folks that are directly associated with us where we can send them out with a package that can call back home. There are free solutions out there such as Access Grid (based on VIC and RAT) but user friendly they are not. I am surprised that something that seems as trivial as multipoint video remains elusive a decade after it appeared on the scene. I'm sure this is because the problem is anything but trivial or we would have seen it by now from Skype or Windows Live. I would have fully expected it to have been commoditized by 2010. I hope you find a solution and I'd love to hear about it if you do.
Beat me too it. However his sig says "post may contain irony" and I think misusing "begs the questions" would qualify as ironic in the context of this post, though I realize I run the risk of being wrong myself here.
Do you mean like a planet where crescent wrenches grow on trees? Or mattresses as living creatures? I can't remember the Adam's quote but it was something to the effect that in an infinite universe, you can find the organic equivalent of everything.
I wouldn't normally post but your comment is crazy. That is not how the law should work. There is discretion that was clearly not used here. Example: two kids in Utah, one 16 year old girl and one 17 year old boy. They take naked pictures of each other and send them to his email account. Boy gets charged with rape and both of them are charged for creating child pornography. Obviously this is an illegal activity, they got caught so by your logic they should both be convicted sex offenders and on the registry for life. Is that justice?
If laws were black and white we wouldn't need lawyers. That said, there is no way this guy is getting convicted. this is not why the law was created and seems clear to me that the higher courts would not want a precedence like this set or else the courts will be jam packed with people making back-ups of DVDs.
this reminds me of that futurama episode where anchovy oil is the ultimate robot lubricant and extremely valuable after they have been fished to extinction. art imitates life yet again.
i thought GI Joe had a jet powered wing but I couldn't find it. Doesn't matter, this nut has nearly been cracked by Jet Man. Give that guy the 10m.
http://media.techeblog.com/images/swissman_6.jpg
But a 13 year old girl was strip searched.... no really THAT is where these policies have gone too far.
-Steve
Just because there are other atrocities being committed daily doesn't make this one any less severe. It is our duty to bring all abuses of power to light so we can hopefully avoid them in the future.
I thought the game was great as far as RPGs go. I am a fan of the comic but I would have liked the game even without that element. To me it brought the best parts together of a forgotten genre. It felt like it vamped a lot on the mechanics of the paper mario series (which IMHO is one of the best RPG series ever) while adding in just enough of the real time elements along the lines of what silicon knights did with KOTOR. Im a dinosour by gaming standards which might be why I am not jiving with the rest of these comments but I couldn't be more pleased to see someone bring back the turn based adventure style of days gone by. I hope their success will encourage others to design more games in this vein.
Ok, so you have to use Win 98SE/ME or OS 9 to get it for free but nevertheless...
http://www.protools.com/
Click on "support" and in the submenu "downloads".
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I too am dutch living in america and I have to kindly disagree with you. While I am not proud of many americans your generalization simply does apply broadly across europe. For example, when I was in Switzerland last, near Lake Como, they spoke exclusively Italian, and to the west, French, and they all spoke hochdeutch, but not necessarily first. Now, which of these languages is Swiss? Oh, what is that you say? There is no language called Swiss? Frankly, I'm a bit astounded she actually made the leap to German. Mexicans don't speak Mexican either. Unless you are familiar enough to know the dutch (which is hardly a common language here) have their own language, german is a fair assessment, and don't get me started on Flemish. Praise Buddha for dutch humor though, it is among the best in the world.
This guy has had a real atomic wristwatch for at least a decade. http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/
When I worked for the government, we were allowed to book $120 per night hotel rooms. Outrageous. Really government workers should not receive more than half that allowance ($60) and book at places like Motel 6 or Super 8.
That must be a joke. The "government" is a big place, federal? state? local? I work for Washington State and our per diem is on a sliding scale based on location. Rural work our hotel is just $35, with a $20 meal allowance (all three meals). I won't describe some of the flea bag places i've had to stay in. in major markets, like san francisco, the rate goes up to $120 which, depending on the season, can be hard to accommodate. I don't know what agency you were with but don't shoehorn all "government" into a single group.
Actually Cthulhu doesn't die. Death may die, but not Cthulhu. "And with strange aeons even death may die" -HP Lovecraft
In 3... 2...
HOT. Science is sexy again.
It exists and solves this guy's problem, you know, if he wants to live inside. Buy him a can of this stuff and tell him to go nuts. http://www.safelivingtechnologies.ca/RF/Products_RF_Shielding_Paint_HSF54.htm
And it was Kip Thorne's book Black Holes and Time Warps. Fantastic book targeted at the layperson with many of the examples described in this review as well. Except it was written 1995. 5 star reviews on amazon. what more can i say? How about a forward from Hawking. It has that too. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/dp/0393312763/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269906159&sr=8-1
for legion as they don't get it. being a long time A/V specialist at an R1 state university I understand your issue completely. For everyone else, the problem with any proprietary system is we need to bring in collaborators from across the world so dedicated hardware is usually not an acceptable solution, though we do use our polycom whenever possible. They need to be able to grab a client that is free or nearly so and easy to setup and use. A web based solution would be idea (one used to exist though I forget the name IPVX maybe?) There are great dedicated solutions out there but as far as I can tell, no cross platform desktop solutions that support multipoint calls. We have been playing with Skype but as others have noted, in a classroom or even meeting room sized event locations it completely falls down. Polycom PVX software has been good but only for folks that are directly associated with us where we can send them out with a package that can call back home. There are free solutions out there such as Access Grid (based on VIC and RAT) but user friendly they are not. I am surprised that something that seems as trivial as multipoint video remains elusive a decade after it appeared on the scene. I'm sure this is because the problem is anything but trivial or we would have seen it by now from Skype or Windows Live. I would have fully expected it to have been commoditized by 2010. I hope you find a solution and I'd love to hear about it if you do.
Beat me too it. However his sig says "post may contain irony" and I think misusing "begs the questions" would qualify as ironic in the context of this post, though I realize I run the risk of being wrong myself here.
Yea, not sure about that. These guys seem to drive pretty well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqeoXAgRBk&feature=related
Do you mean like a planet where crescent wrenches grow on trees? Or mattresses as living creatures? I can't remember the Adam's quote but it was something to the effect that in an infinite universe, you can find the organic equivalent of everything.
I wouldn't normally post but your comment is crazy. That is not how the law should work. There is discretion that was clearly not used here. Example: two kids in Utah, one 16 year old girl and one 17 year old boy. They take naked pictures of each other and send them to his email account. Boy gets charged with rape and both of them are charged for creating child pornography. Obviously this is an illegal activity, they got caught so by your logic they should both be convicted sex offenders and on the registry for life. Is that justice? If laws were black and white we wouldn't need lawyers. That said, there is no way this guy is getting convicted. this is not why the law was created and seems clear to me that the higher courts would not want a precedence like this set or else the courts will be jam packed with people making back-ups of DVDs.
this reminds me of that futurama episode where anchovy oil is the ultimate robot lubricant and extremely valuable after they have been fished to extinction. art imitates life yet again.
i thought GI Joe had a jet powered wing but I couldn't find it. Doesn't matter, this nut has nearly been cracked by Jet Man. Give that guy the 10m. http://media.techeblog.com/images/swissman_6.jpg
But a 13 year old girl was strip searched.... no really THAT is where these policies have gone too far.
-Steve
Just because there are other atrocities being committed daily doesn't make this one any less severe. It is our duty to bring all abuses of power to light so we can hopefully avoid them in the future.
the sad part is that someone probably DID have some version of pr0n on that ENIAC. If you've thought of it, porn has done it first.
I don't know if I should be turned on or not by, what shall now be known forever as "grandma-tramp", outfit.
dude you win, the entire internet officially doesn't know wtf IAANAMB means.
I thought the game was great as far as RPGs go. I am a fan of the comic but I would have liked the game even without that element. To me it brought the best parts together of a forgotten genre. It felt like it vamped a lot on the mechanics of the paper mario series (which IMHO is one of the best RPG series ever) while adding in just enough of the real time elements along the lines of what silicon knights did with KOTOR. Im a dinosour by gaming standards which might be why I am not jiving with the rest of these comments but I couldn't be more pleased to see someone bring back the turn based adventure style of days gone by. I hope their success will encourage others to design more games in this vein.
if it is a coconut palm, it was probably carried there two african swallows and a piece of string.
that summary couldn't have made less sense to me.
now i can drown to a soundtrack.
Written by a guy I know, it is a great app and no charge. So he didn't write it in linux. So what. Website is here and the stepmania binary is here.
Ok, so you have to use Win 98SE/ME or OS 9 to get it for free but nevertheless...
http://www.protools.com/
Click on "support" and in the submenu "downloads".