all they do is throw a japanese accent on the word and its understood. processor-a, megahertzura, etc.
the words are american, and they're pronounced as americans pronounce them. ever say they words "Here's my resume," "I drive a coupe," or "it is hard to fillet a fish?" If so, then you've pronounced French words in an American way. Do the same in whatever country you're travelling to (why didn't you specify, btw?) and you'll be fine.
in short: just throw the native accent on the word and you'll do fine.
i can't think of a problem. the 802.11b/g spectrum is unlicensed. you can use it for whatever reason you wish. if your kick-ass provider lets you do this, then they won't complain.
as another poster said, is it really worth the trouble when it comes to billing?
also keep in mind that using wireless opens up their computer to the world. make sure folks know this before you let them join your network.
I work for a very, very large insurance company with tens of thousands of employees, and several dozen million policy holders. At least 25% of the nation has auto insurance with us.
We used.NET in the enterprise for a while, until Humpty Dumpty (.NET) fell off the wall and all of Microsoft's Men and Women couldn't put it together again. For two and a half weeks customers were without quotes, or access to their policies online, and agents couldn't sell new policies or make changes to current policies. Customers were furious, agents were foaming at the mouth in anger.
Two and a half weeks. With all of "the Shining Stars" of Microsoft's.NET team flown in they couldn't get it working again for two and a half weeks. Eventually they had to rebuild the entire server room with new Windows installations on every server because they couldn't find out the problem. That might seem bad, but let me make note that the whole system was provisioned, installed, and maintained by Microsoft personnel. They broke it and they couldn't fix it for, say it with me, two and a half weeks. That should make it seem worse, but it still sounds better than it actually was.
A decision was promptly made to drop.NET. We don't even get Visual Studio.NET installed on our development machines anymore. We have a very strong bad taste in our mouth from the whole.NET craze, which Microsoft is going very far out of their way to remove, without result.
We use J2EE and are very happy with where its going. Sun has spent a great deal of effort working with us to transition, and their support has been great. Our J2EE stuff Just Works. It works wonderfully. We are very, very happy with it. I'm using short sentences here to get the point across that we are very happy with J2EE. We've been using it for our web services and as our main development platform. We train on IBM's WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and it also is a great (but expensive!) tool.
I, as a developer, recommend J2EE. I do not represent my company in this recommendation, in case you work out who it is I work for. I am speaking totally on behalf of myself.
i doubt anyone that makes a homemade scrabble set would keep the set number of 'Y' tiles as prescribed by the official version.... parent could be a HHGTTG joke that i'm not getting though. on slashdot its impossible to tell when someone is being serious and when they're quoting some obscure literature (or the not-so-obscure HHGTTG).
because to me anyway, it is considered inbreeding when you link to yourself or an affiliate for a news story. something like "here's another site's take on it, if you don't like ours. oh yeah we're the same company as them."
personally i don't like it at all. I especially hate it when slashdot links to itself about things that have happened in the past. other sites do it, and it hate it when they do it too. if you are in the habit of reading just one site, or watching just one news station for all your news, you begin to filter your view on the world, and make yourself easier to influence. I point at my colleagues who watch Fox News and no other news channels for proof of this. Same for my colleagues who watch CNN and nothing else. Its bad in either direction.
The disclaimer is a way of legally avoiding conflict of interest concerns. It is also a way of attempting to bring more regular visitors to newsforge.
Late model typewriters did this
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· Score: 4, Informative
I remember in High School (1991) using typewriters that had a serial (maybe parallel) port on the back. you could hook them up to a PC and use it as an output device.
If you're wanting an OLD 100% mechanical typewriter, ebay has those too. You'll need to create some USB trickery that accepts serial data and decodes it into individual characters. then sends a signal down a wire associated with the appropriate character, which you amplify and activate solonoids with. solonoids are about the only thing strong enough to fully stroke a mechanical typewriter key with any speed.
well in a newspaper, they're bigger, and readable.
the point is that "look all these folks have switched, you're not alone if you dislike IE." the names don't really matter that much (but the contributors DO!)
no one is going to bother reading even a few names. the idea is to convey a movement from one browser from another.
Every time I mention the bnetd thing i get modded down. new game is out, people don't care what kind of injustices have been forwarded by blizzard. that requires a little bit of bravery and no one has any anymore.
hmm all WHITE meat from the WHITE chicken farmers? who may one day visit the WHITE house? Huh. I see how you are.
I for one welcome our DARK meat 8 foot tall DARK feathered chickens, with the crushing toes and the beak and the poking and the crushing and the hey hey it hurts me.
Before some of you conclude on your own that this is dangerous, read this.
On this site a few months back ("few" = [3..12]) I read a story about some swedish dudes who found a way to cheaply and without prescription make themselves sterile. Their way? To dunk their testes in water that is over 105F for an hour a day.
this killed their sperm, but the effect IS NOT PERMANENT! You will not permanetly damage anything by doing this. The effect lasts weeks but is not permanent.
If you're into painful male birth control, perhaps this is an option for you.
Guys, putting a laptop on your lap for extended periods of time will only make you temporarily less likely to conceive. It will not prevent you from generating sperm, and it will not last forever.
We broke up about 8 months after I moved there, I won't get into why.
I don't believe in bad-talking ex-girlfriends, if a current or future girlfriend knows you trash-talk exes, she's less likely to date you. I've never dated anyone that really deserves to recieve any negative words I have to say anyway.
This particular ex-girlfriend was actually very pretty and very nice, I was just a little messed up with regards to my priorities. She wasn't the right girl for me anyway.
When I moved to Australia - a very Americanized nation really, not like europe at all, i learned the hard way about how americans were viewed abroad, and quickly after that I learned that the american way really isn't the only way or even the best way. i'm MUCH better off for it.
I highly recommend to anyone who reads this that they live out of the US for at least a few years. you will be enlightened beyond belief. you will be called a steenking liberal for the rest of your life, but you'll realize that 'liberal' is actually a very good thing. once i was removed from the biased US media it became extremely obvious what the correct US political choice was.
I did it in Australia. With that rather large caveat in mind, I'm going to tell you my story anyway, in case you can pull a little inspiration out of it.
All my life I'd wanted to move to Australia, but hadn't been too proactive about it. I met a girl online back in 1999 who was from Australia, and in addition to her being extremely freaking cool, she lived in Australia. So I decided that if things kept going well with her that I'd move there. The did, so I did. Before I moved though, I got in touch with some immigration folks there, folks that run businesses for the express purpose of migrating in folks that wanted to live in Australia. His main modus operandi was marriage, but I wasn't ready for that just yet.
I poured myself over newsgroups about immigration into Australia, reading every post, answering questions where I could, etc. I learned a hell of a lot in a very short amount of time. I decided that my best bet was to just go there and try to find work after I got there. I was lucky enough to be hired by Yahoo! a couple weeks later. They sponsored me on what was to be a class-457 Business visa, that allowed me to work for one employer and live in Australia. My visa was for 2 years, but could easily be extended, and only cost me AUD$150 (my employer paid for most of it).
After I lived in Australia for a while (this part you'll be interested in) I found out about places that act as temp-agencies for out-of-countrymen. They would sponsor you, and they would pay you, but you would be hired out to various places for 6 months to a year at a time. You were in constant employment, but your gigs were short. I think this could be an option for you, especially if you can speak Italian.
Hit the newsgroups, read read read read read read all you can about immigration law, find some immigration lawyers and suck every word out of them that you can before they want money, and just live and breathe the Italian immigration process. Soon folks will approach you with options that I've not experienced and that neither of us have imagined. There is a way, I guarantee it.
Your wife, unless Italy disallows it, could become a dual-citizen. She could become a citizen of Italy and the US, with all the privileges of each and zero downside. Since you're married to her you could get two passports as well, and live in each country as long as you wished, with or without a job. This is probably the most robust option, but would probably take the longest time to set up. If you're patient, and dual-citizenship is an option, I would go this way.
I know this post is all over the spectrum, I'm not a good writer. But I hope something in here has given you an idea. The only thing between you and Italian employment is time. You'll get there if you really want to.
I have a DS, and YES it is capable of playing four player games with just one gamecard. if its not available in the US version, that's the game publisher's intention, its not a DS difference.
all DSs can play 4 player games with one game card, if the game supports it.
I wouldn't worry too much about it being too cold. if you have a pusher fan, take that out. puller fans (that exhaust air, instead of pulling it in) will have the temp of the air inside the case, rather than the temp of the outside air. lubricants become more viscous with colder temps, so you want you fan to breathe the warmer air from inside the case.
you probably want to make it a smaller fan also, you don't want too much cold air going through. cold is good for CPUs but too much cold breaks solder joints.
if you can control your fan thermostatically i would recommend that. having computer parts get hot, then cold, then hot, then cold, then hot, then cold, due to day/night cycles KILLS solder joints quick. condensation is also a concern with widely varying temperatures. condensation is bad, of course.
as someone else said, rodent-proof the case and check it for infestation often. mice will chew right through sheet metal when they need to. Try mounting it on a wall somehow so rodents can't get to it.
i'm not worried about the below zero C temps, i'm worried about temperature fluctuation. using a smaller than OEM fan will keep what warm air there is inside the case there a little longer, and should keep the insides of the case above 0C constantly.
They're CONSTANTLY changing game dynamics. From one patch to the next, the entire game dynamic could change, depending on your profession. If you're one of the professions that was "revamped" then the entire game changes for you - you feel like you're playing a different star wars game with the same graphics. Its not fun.
They're STILL changing the amount of experience you get for certain things, changing how groups work, changing tons of things that don't really need to be change.
if youre game stunk that bad that you have to eventually revamp entire sections of the game design, then DESIGN A NEW GAME.
THAT would be a novel idea in MMORPG games - realize you're game is broken and work on a new game. the SWG revamps are so huge because their mistakes were so huge.
that's so cool because [overheat! overheat! overheat!] i just love excite bike, with the [overheat! overheat! overheat!] jumping and the racing and [overheat! overheat! overheat!] the superfast opponents. wow it was[overheat! overheat! overheat!] great!!
well i'm going to have the mainboard replaced under warranty now. i need a new one anyway (loses power when i pull the power plug out, but runs fine on batteries).
hopefully the problem is in the mainboard. occaisionally I have a very difficult time getting the computer to come out of standby, but I rarely (never?) put it into standby when it is plugged in. (and why do the windows xp default power settings always put the laptop into standby when it is plugged in? why would anyone want that???)
web programmer by night. css, xul, javascript. anything i can do to pull in an extra buck and enrich my knowledge and experience at the same time, really.
when I lived in Australia I was on a commuter train from Campbelltown to Sydney and I noticed a guy get on somewhere along the way and use a device like this to find an empty seat. he had gauze patches over both eyes so I know he wasn't faking that he was blind.
he held a cane in one hand and this device in the other. He pointed it right at my face and i got a good look at it. at the time i remember thinking it was a sonar device of some kind, as it had what appeared to be an emitter and reciever, and he had headphones plugged into it. he would point it at a seat, and if someone was sitting there or there was garbage on the seat he would move to the next. didn't take long for him to find a seat that was empty. In fact he was seated before the train started moving. It wasn't rush-hour so it didn't take long for the train to start moving.
anyway i was impressed with it and wondered why i hadn't seen any before or after. maybe he was a beta tester?
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create a site where you can license your photos via a creative commons license.
one of those licenses probably has all the rights & restrictions you desire.
all they do is throw a japanese accent on the word and its understood. processor-a, megahertzura, etc.
the words are american, and they're pronounced as americans pronounce them. ever say they words "Here's my resume," "I drive a coupe," or "it is hard to fillet a fish?" If so, then you've pronounced French words in an American way. Do the same in whatever country you're travelling to (why didn't you specify, btw?) and you'll be fine.
in short: just throw the native accent on the word and you'll do fine.
i can't think of a problem. the 802.11b/g spectrum is unlicensed. you can use it for whatever reason you wish. if your kick-ass provider lets you do this, then they won't complain.
as another poster said, is it really worth the trouble when it comes to billing?
also keep in mind that using wireless opens up their computer to the world. make sure folks know this before you let them join your network.
I work for a very, very large insurance company with tens of thousands of employees, and several dozen million policy holders. At least 25% of the nation has auto insurance with us.
.NET in the enterprise for a while, until Humpty Dumpty (.NET) fell off the wall and all of Microsoft's Men and Women couldn't put it together again. For two and a half weeks customers were without quotes, or access to their policies online, and agents couldn't sell new policies or make changes to current policies. Customers were furious, agents were foaming at the mouth in anger.
.NET team flown in they couldn't get it working again for two and a half weeks. Eventually they had to rebuild the entire server room with new Windows installations on every server because they couldn't find out the problem. That might seem bad, but let me make note that the whole system was provisioned, installed, and maintained by Microsoft personnel. They broke it and they couldn't fix it for, say it with me, two and a half weeks. That should make it seem worse, but it still sounds better than it actually was.
.NET. We don't even get Visual Studio.NET installed on our development machines anymore. We have a very strong bad taste in our mouth from the whole .NET craze, which Microsoft is going very far out of their way to remove, without result.
We used
Two and a half weeks. With all of "the Shining Stars" of Microsoft's
A decision was promptly made to drop
We use J2EE and are very happy with where its going. Sun has spent a great deal of effort working with us to transition, and their support has been great. Our J2EE stuff Just Works. It works wonderfully. We are very, very happy with it. I'm using short sentences here to get the point across that we are very happy with J2EE. We've been using it for our web services and as our main development platform. We train on IBM's WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and it also is a great (but expensive!) tool.
I, as a developer, recommend J2EE. I do not represent my company in this recommendation, in case you work out who it is I work for. I am speaking totally on behalf of myself.
i doubt anyone that makes a homemade scrabble set would keep the set number of 'Y' tiles as prescribed by the official version. ... parent could be a HHGTTG joke that i'm not getting though. on slashdot its impossible to tell when someone is being serious and when they're quoting some obscure literature (or the not-so-obscure HHGTTG).
because to me anyway, it is considered inbreeding when you link to yourself or an affiliate for a news story. something like "here's another site's take on it, if you don't like ours. oh yeah we're the same company as them."
personally i don't like it at all. I especially hate it when slashdot links to itself about things that have happened in the past. other sites do it, and it hate it when they do it too. if you are in the habit of reading just one site, or watching just one news station for all your news, you begin to filter your view on the world, and make yourself easier to influence. I point at my colleagues who watch Fox News and no other news channels for proof of this. Same for my colleagues who watch CNN and nothing else. Its bad in either direction.
The disclaimer is a way of legally avoiding conflict of interest concerns. It is also a way of attempting to bring more regular visitors to newsforge.
I remember in High School (1991) using typewriters that had a serial (maybe parallel) port on the back. you could hook them up to a PC and use it as an output device.
Try looking for typewriters like this, the work is already done for you.
If you're wanting an OLD 100% mechanical typewriter, ebay has those too. You'll need to create some USB trickery that accepts serial data and decodes it into individual characters. then sends a signal down a wire associated with the appropriate character, which you amplify and activate solonoids with. solonoids are about the only thing strong enough to fully stroke a mechanical typewriter key with any speed.
Disclaimer: I have no idea how you'd do this.
Perhaps you're not familiar with bnetd:
Battle.net is (at the time of bnetd, anyway) a free service. creating bnetd did not save anyone any money.
the bnetd team did a double-blind reverse engineering process, which is perfectly legal.
the purpose of bnetd was to have your own private game server, free of cheaters and griefers. NOT to save money.
bnetd was created legally with good intentions. Not a single EULA of Blizzard's was breached. It was a totally fucked up situation.
So look back and read about what happened to the bnetd team before you defend them.
well in a newspaper, they're bigger, and readable.
the point is that "look all these folks have switched, you're not alone if you dislike IE." the names don't really matter that much (but the contributors DO!)
no one is going to bother reading even a few names. the idea is to convey a movement from one browser from another.
ZERO comments and the site is Slashdotted.
Yay.
Every time I mention the bnetd thing i get modded down. new game is out, people don't care what kind of injustices have been forwarded by blizzard. that requires a little bit of bravery and no one has any anymore.
three HOTKEY bars. you can have many more button bars.
[1234567890-=] is the first bar
ALT+[1234567890-=] is the second
CTRL+[1234567890-=] is the third.
the others are just button bars.
hmm all WHITE meat from the WHITE chicken farmers? who may one day visit the WHITE house? Huh. I see how you are.
I for one welcome our DARK meat 8 foot tall DARK feathered chickens, with the crushing toes and the beak and the poking and the crushing and the hey hey it hurts me.
Before some of you conclude on your own that this is dangerous, read this.
On this site a few months back ("few" = [3..12]) I read a story about some swedish dudes who found a way to cheaply and without prescription make themselves sterile. Their way? To dunk their testes in water that is over 105F for an hour a day.
this killed their sperm, but the effect IS NOT PERMANENT! You will not permanetly damage anything by doing this. The effect lasts weeks but is not permanent.
If you're into painful male birth control, perhaps this is an option for you.
Guys, putting a laptop on your lap for extended periods of time will only make you temporarily less likely to conceive. It will not prevent you from generating sperm, and it will not last forever.
my letter to the ptc:
to: editor@parentstv.org
subject: wow congratulations
99.8% of all FCC complaints come from you.
with this knowledge the FCC has just ignored you. no one that complains that much has any real intelligence. you've marginalized yourselves.
i believe in free speech, and the right to not use a shift key when everyone else does. i'm a liberal, and a card carrying liberal at that.
the ptc (not capitalized because you don't deserve it) can eat my ass.
signed, with pride,
Jeremiah Joseph Johnson
We broke up about 8 months after I moved there, I won't get into why.
I don't believe in bad-talking ex-girlfriends, if a current or future girlfriend knows you trash-talk exes, she's less likely to date you. I've never dated anyone that really deserves to recieve any negative words I have to say anyway.
This particular ex-girlfriend was actually very pretty and very nice, I was just a little messed up with regards to my priorities. She wasn't the right girl for me anyway.
When I moved to Australia - a very Americanized nation really, not like europe at all, i learned the hard way about how americans were viewed abroad, and quickly after that I learned that the american way really isn't the only way or even the best way. i'm MUCH better off for it.
I highly recommend to anyone who reads this that they live out of the US for at least a few years. you will be enlightened beyond belief. you will be called a steenking liberal for the rest of your life, but you'll realize that 'liberal' is actually a very good thing. once i was removed from the biased US media it became extremely obvious what the correct US political choice was.
I did it in Australia. With that rather large caveat in mind, I'm going to tell you my story anyway, in case you can pull a little inspiration out of it.
All my life I'd wanted to move to Australia, but hadn't been too proactive about it. I met a girl online back in 1999 who was from Australia, and in addition to her being extremely freaking cool, she lived in Australia. So I decided that if things kept going well with her that I'd move there. The did, so I did. Before I moved though, I got in touch with some immigration folks there, folks that run businesses for the express purpose of migrating in folks that wanted to live in Australia. His main modus operandi was marriage, but I wasn't ready for that just yet.
I poured myself over newsgroups about immigration into Australia, reading every post, answering questions where I could, etc. I learned a hell of a lot in a very short amount of time. I decided that my best bet was to just go there and try to find work after I got there. I was lucky enough to be hired by Yahoo! a couple weeks later. They sponsored me on what was to be a class-457 Business visa, that allowed me to work for one employer and live in Australia. My visa was for 2 years, but could easily be extended, and only cost me AUD$150 (my employer paid for most of it).
After I lived in Australia for a while (this part you'll be interested in) I found out about places that act as temp-agencies for out-of-countrymen. They would sponsor you, and they would pay you, but you would be hired out to various places for 6 months to a year at a time. You were in constant employment, but your gigs were short. I think this could be an option for you, especially if you can speak Italian.
Hit the newsgroups, read read read read read read all you can about immigration law, find some immigration lawyers and suck every word out of them that you can before they want money, and just live and breathe the Italian immigration process. Soon folks will approach you with options that I've not experienced and that neither of us have imagined. There is a way, I guarantee it.
Your wife, unless Italy disallows it, could become a dual-citizen. She could become a citizen of Italy and the US, with all the privileges of each and zero downside. Since you're married to her you could get two passports as well, and live in each country as long as you wished, with or without a job. This is probably the most robust option, but would probably take the longest time to set up. If you're patient, and dual-citizenship is an option, I would go this way.
I know this post is all over the spectrum, I'm not a good writer. But I hope something in here has given you an idea. The only thing between you and Italian employment is time. You'll get there if you really want to.
that's not a DS thing, that's a game thing.
I have a DS, and YES it is capable of playing four player games with just one gamecard. if its not available in the US version, that's the game publisher's intention, its not a DS difference.
all DSs can play 4 player games with one game card, if the game supports it.
I wouldn't worry too much about it being too cold. if you have a pusher fan, take that out. puller fans (that exhaust air, instead of pulling it in) will have the temp of the air inside the case, rather than the temp of the outside air. lubricants become more viscous with colder temps, so you want you fan to breathe the warmer air from inside the case.
you probably want to make it a smaller fan also, you don't want too much cold air going through. cold is good for CPUs but too much cold breaks solder joints.
if you can control your fan thermostatically i would recommend that. having computer parts get hot, then cold, then hot, then cold, then hot, then cold, due to day/night cycles KILLS solder joints quick. condensation is also a concern with widely varying temperatures. condensation is bad, of course.
as someone else said, rodent-proof the case and check it for infestation often. mice will chew right through sheet metal when they need to. Try mounting it on a wall somehow so rodents can't get to it.
i'm not worried about the below zero C temps, i'm worried about temperature fluctuation. using a smaller than OEM fan will keep what warm air there is inside the case there a little longer, and should keep the insides of the case above 0C constantly.
They're CONSTANTLY changing game dynamics. From one patch to the next, the entire game dynamic could change, depending on your profession. If you're one of the professions that was "revamped" then the entire game changes for you - you feel like you're playing a different star wars game with the same graphics. Its not fun.
They're STILL changing the amount of experience you get for certain things, changing how groups work, changing tons of things that don't really need to be change.
if youre game stunk that bad that you have to eventually revamp entire sections of the game design, then DESIGN A NEW GAME.
THAT would be a novel idea in MMORPG games - realize you're game is broken and work on a new game. the SWG revamps are so huge because their mistakes were so huge.
that's so cool because [overheat! overheat! overheat!] i just love excite bike, with the [overheat! overheat! overheat!] jumping and the racing and [overheat! overheat! overheat!] the superfast opponents. wow it was[overheat! overheat! overheat!] great!!
ah, those were the days.
well i'm going to have the mainboard replaced under warranty now. i need a new one anyway (loses power when i pull the power plug out, but runs fine on batteries).
hopefully the problem is in the mainboard. occaisionally I have a very difficult time getting the computer to come out of standby, but I rarely (never?) put it into standby when it is plugged in. (and why do the windows xp default power settings always put the laptop into standby when it is plugged in? why would anyone want that???)
web programmer by night. css, xul, javascript. anything i can do to pull in an extra buck and enrich my knowledge and experience at the same time, really.
when I lived in Australia I was on a commuter train from Campbelltown to Sydney and I noticed a guy get on somewhere along the way and use a device like this to find an empty seat. he had gauze patches over both eyes so I know he wasn't faking that he was blind.
he held a cane in one hand and this device in the other. He pointed it right at my face and i got a good look at it. at the time i remember thinking it was a sonar device of some kind, as it had what appeared to be an emitter and reciever, and he had headphones plugged into it. he would point it at a seat, and if someone was sitting there or there was garbage on the seat he would move to the next. didn't take long for him to find a seat that was empty. In fact he was seated before the train started moving. It wasn't rush-hour so it didn't take long for the train to start moving.
anyway i was impressed with it and wondered why i hadn't seen any before or after. maybe he was a beta tester?