I suppose it's too late to point out that I spotted the error due to recognizing the -or/-rix as a gender-based construction rather than anything more than passing familiarity with any fetish scene. =P
1. Conversion of energy to matter. Depends on the amount of freely available power (but if we have infinite ability to create items of arbitrary complexity, power generation should be the least of our problems)
2. How much stuff do you NEED, anyway? I figure if you want a new car, you cram the old one in the replicator's "raw materials" box. Beyond one house, one car per person, one computer per person...and you wouldn't need as many other things. Books, you'd only need a few,'cause your library is electronic and you chuck old books in the replicator to get new ones out. Same with music. Same with food. (poop/wastewater would be acceptable raw materials, provided you didn't have to see the details of the process. =P)
I think just about every DOS and Win3.1 chess game did that. =P Certainly everything in the Sargon series did (I had all of 'em, including Sargon III which had a neat feature where you could watch the computer parse through the move look-up tables in human-readable speed).
OTOH, the added trouble of piggybacking on IE's API means that anyone whose personal firewall authorizes IE traffic also authorized the spyware by default. You'd be surprised how much spyware does this.
I ran a test about three years ago with some various shareware programs and ZoneAlarm, which ended up revealing that IE would request internet access when I was happily browsing with Mozilla and reading e-mail in Eudora (with "microsoft preview pane" disabled, thank you).
Actually, in many jurisdictions in the US (may even be federal at this point) it's already illegal to possess legally generated (either CGI or young-looking actors/actressess) porn that impersonates child porn.
Not if Lycoris has a perpetual GPL-compatible license from SCO, which is possible--given they claim to be able to keep the entirety open-source and modify it.
Of course, that assumes Microsoft can move openly to take IBM down without the DoJ having to spank them again (public opinion still counts a bit in this country.)
Assuming Microsoft could even take down IBM un-interfered with for that matter.
Perhaps it's because the commercial gear has to conform exactly to gov't regulations? (or rather, the strictest regulations in every country it's sold in)
I think the 24dB power is a government-imposed limit somewhere, for example, since most gear seems to be set with that as max stock power.
There are magazines for which the back catalog would be incredibly useful (any hobby mag with instructions for a different thing each month, for example, or a consumer reports-style mag so you could look up something older that you found on sale/used) and/or interesting (Time, Life, any "serious" news/commentary magazine) and/or timeless (Playboy--porn doesn't go out of date. =P)
I don't know that there are many magazines whose back catalog would suck, except straight news magazines and "People"-style trash.
While I'm perfectly willing to be convinced, I would like to see evidence of any actual use of military tribunals to sentence people to death as a result of the so-called "War on Terrorism".
I'm libertarian and dislike the gov't as much as the next guy, but I prefer to keep my facts straight.
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I suppose it's too late to point out that I spotted the error due to recognizing the -or/-rix as a gender-based construction rather than anything more than passing familiarity with any fetish scene. =P
Obscure language nazi!
Bubba can't be a dominatrix in prison, as they don't allow him to cross-dress. Dominatrix is a female-gendered form of dominator.
Compare to aviator/aviatrix (which is now an archaic term, has been since the 50s)
*blinks* Interesting that Excel alone costs around half as much as the entire Office XP Professional suite. Thanks for the link in any case.
I would highly appreciate a link to a place where I can buy standalone Excel XP in quantities of less than five.
Two possible solutions:
1. Conversion of energy to matter. Depends on the amount of freely available power (but if we have infinite ability to create items of arbitrary complexity, power generation should be the least of our problems)
2. How much stuff do you NEED, anyway? I figure if you want a new car, you cram the old one in the replicator's "raw materials" box. Beyond one house, one car per person, one computer per person...and you wouldn't need as many other things. Books, you'd only need a few,'cause your library is electronic and you chuck old books in the replicator to get new ones out. Same with music. Same with food. (poop/wastewater would be acceptable raw materials, provided you didn't have to see the details of the process. =P)
I think just about every DOS and Win3.1 chess game did that. =P Certainly everything in the Sargon series did (I had all of 'em, including Sargon III which had a neat feature where you could watch the computer parse through the move look-up tables in human-readable speed).
OTOH, the added trouble of piggybacking on IE's API means that anyone whose personal firewall authorizes IE traffic also authorized the spyware by default.
You'd be surprised how much spyware does this.
I ran a test about three years ago with some various shareware programs and ZoneAlarm, which ended up revealing that IE would request internet access when I was happily browsing with Mozilla and reading e-mail in Eudora (with "microsoft preview pane" disabled, thank you).
Dammit, I have the exact same problem, except my company is sufficiently small that I have no layers of insulation between myself and the CEO. =-P
Huh. I would suspect that offer is only available in certain markets.
Can't unbundle Excel ever, mind you, which is what *I'D* want, given Excel pretty much rules my spreadsheet world.
Oh, well. Submitting feature requests to OOo is more rewarding in the long run. =)
....Mark Marino? Izzat you?
I believe part of his point was that with a sufficiently long incubation time, you could call into question the validity of your backups.
Especially if the virus does slow data-corruption rather than just wiping the data obviously.
Pretty easily. You take a list of gov't decisions, and a list of public decisions (not general opinion survey, but specific public opinions).
You let the public (but not the gov't) assess the fairness (i.e., Metamoderation) of each decision.
You will find that it's fairly easy to determine that the gov't makes more fair decisions than the mob in the opinion of the mob. Or not.
As an example of the gov't making more fair decisions than the mob--Civil rights in the 1960s.
I dunno, "I command it" just doesn't seem like enough of an abuse of good English for Darl...
I theorize all Darl's edicts actually end with "THIS I COMMAND!" a la Serpentor (I think) from G.I. Joe.
If you don't buy from me, I'll CLUB this BABY SEAL!!
I have only one thing to say about those who downloaded these ersatz "cheats"...
Ha-ha! *points*
In all seriousness, aren't cheaters supposed to be extra paranoid, lest they be cheated themselves?
So which country is this?
Actually, in many jurisdictions in the US (may even be federal at this point) it's already illegal to possess legally generated (either CGI or young-looking actors/actressess) porn that impersonates child porn.
You are incorrect.
The last name does not change for gender (it does, however, change for grammatical case).
The PATRONYMIC most Slavs have instead of a middle name does change-- it takes the suffix -ovich (son of) or -ova/-eva (daughter of).
Go look at some Russian literature. Or for that matter, history--find me one female member of the Romanov dynasty referred to as Romanova.
Not if Lycoris has a perpetual GPL-compatible license from SCO, which is possible--given they claim to be able to keep the entirety open-source and modify it.
Of course, that assumes Microsoft can move openly to take IBM down without the DoJ having to spank them again (public opinion still counts a bit in this country.)
Assuming Microsoft could even take down IBM un-interfered with for that matter.
Perhaps it's because the commercial gear has to conform exactly to gov't regulations? (or rather, the strictest regulations in every country it's sold in)
I think the 24dB power is a government-imposed limit somewhere, for example, since most gear seems to be set with that as max stock power.
There are magazines for which the back catalog would be incredibly useful (any hobby mag with instructions for a different thing each month, for example, or a consumer reports-style mag so you could look up something older that you found on sale/used) and/or interesting (Time, Life, any "serious" news/commentary magazine) and/or timeless (Playboy--porn doesn't go out of date. =P)
I don't know that there are many magazines whose back catalog would suck, except straight news magazines and "People"-style trash.
What does it say that I checked the changelog on this to see if I had to re-read it.
If nothing else, it's funny as crap. =)
While I'm perfectly willing to be convinced, I would like to see evidence of any actual use of military tribunals to sentence people to death as a result of the so-called "War on Terrorism".
I'm libertarian and dislike the gov't as much as the next guy, but I prefer to keep my facts straight.
You'll note they had seperate classes for unmodded commercial gear and modded commercial gear such as you describe.
Look again, you'll find the categories for power-boosted stock equipment.