I'm sure that their motive has nothing to do with whether it makes the kindle "more useful". This threatens their monopoly market for the books.
You missed a word there. I added it for you.
That other vendor also allows me to build a shopping cart of books to buy at once, allowing me to build a list of what books are available that I like and thus determine if a Kindle-type device is right for me. Amazon's store only offers One-Click Buy-It-Now links, and the Save For Later links also only appear if you're using a Kindle to access the store. No shopping cart, no wishlists for Kindle Books for those not already locked in. Probably can't even buy a Kindle Book as a gift for another Kindle user.
Blank Reg: This is a network linker. It's a bit out of your league, idn'it, Paula? Paula: So, whatch'll you trade for it?... What's that? Blank Reg: It's a book! Paula: Well, what's that? Blank Reg: It's a non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare. You should 'ave one. Paula: Stuff it!
I prefer Tree Style Tab with the tabs down the left. Only problems I have with it are (1) closing a tab which is hiding other tabs closes them all (a feature), but Undo Close Tab only brings them back one at a time, and if it contained a lot, you can't get them all back, and (2) it occasionally locks up for me trying to drag tabs to new positions, but which I don't do very often.
Caller: Yeah, hi, love the show, love hearing people's opinions. That's what made this country great: people. And opinions. And stuff. Most of all guns. I hate it when people whine about "guns kill people". Guns don't kill people, death kills people. Ask a doctor, it's a medical fact: you can't die from a bullet! You can die from a cardiac arrest or organ failure or a major hemorrhage -- a small piece of metal ain't the problem! Besides, I only use my machine gun in the safety of my own home or car, I ain't hurtin' nobody. And countries that don't have guns ain't American.
Lazlow: You know, that's a really good point: Countries that don't have guns aren't American... You know, if more people had guns there'd be less shootings in this country.
I didn't really notice the exoskeletons in Exosquad. I paid more attention to the plight of the Neo-Sapiens. I also wasn't much of a toy collector at the time.
My high school's computer programming class was also AppleSoft BASIC on Apple//e computers. For awhile it was a mandatory class. Eventually they created another class called Keyboarding, which really was just typing but using a computer instead of an IBM typewriter, and it counted as computer science credit.
Programs in the BASIC class were writing a database program (which I'd rewritten the original spaghetti code one year to use GOSUB instead of GOTOs, which then became the standard that was taught), a graphics program (make an interesting picture using BASIC, by formula or read from DATA statements), and finally a program using shape tables (to introduce binary and hexadecimal numbers and their conversion to decimal).
I'd spend at least a half hour every day in the high school's computer room while my mother finished for the day (a teacher in the same school) even before taking high school classes. I'd find myself writing other students' programs for money, teaching myself assembly language and the basics of how games were written for the platform, while at home I moved on from the Apple ][e to the IIgs and started applying what I learned to its capabilities.
Senior year, when it came time to take the course, I was just given credit and an extra free period as, during the previous summer, I'd already taken enough classes to have more college education on the subject than the teacher.
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i bought a box set of games from Circuit City I think it was Half Life, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike. I installed it, and it needed to call home to activate. But the activation software version in the packaging was old, so I had to upgrade to the latest version. Did so, ran it again, and it gave me a terse alert telling me I still needed to upgrade, but it was the latest version, and it didn't even tell me where to go to get a newer version. The software sat unused for months on the hard drive.
Eventually I got curious again and did more searches and found that the registration software had been replaced and that I needed to install Steam to manage the games now. I did so, went to register... and the registration codes were already registered by someone else! Well, for everything other than Half-Life. Some more research and I found that the packager of my set of games had put the same registration keys in all the boxes! If it had been within the first 30 days, I could get a free set of keys. This being months later, they offered to sell me a new set of keys... for the same price I paid for the games, effectively doubling the price!
Except for Half-Life, they still sit unplayed on my hard drive.
And is the MPAA going to start requiring theaters to record exactly where each of its customers are sitting at each screening of every movie that might be pirated?
Yes, the movie will watch you. No foreign travel visa required.
This is not about Verizon. It is about Verizon Wireless...
So which one bought Alltel, and are Alltel customers who opted out with Alltel going find themselves "stealth opted-in"?
Alltel spun off its land-line and DSL services to Windstream, so since Alltel itself is completely wireless now, it's probably Verizon Wireless.
And it's also likely this change is so that this information can be shared with their new Alltel holdings as the merger gets underway and they converge to one billing system.
and cutting/unwinding wire ties in a dozen different places
Well, one thing you can do with those plastic-coated wire-ties is bend them into an oversized paper-clip shape. Add a pair of small googly eyes and you have your very own Clippy Action Figure (whom you can then torture in so many ways).
Hasn't Dell also shipped a box full of boxes each containing one carefully padded sheet of paper? Weren't they going to revisit their packaging system?
It makes the packaging used for two WristStrong bracelets from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report seem conservationist by comparison.
"Fogbank is the most secure modification of Trident missile warheads in the world." "I know that." "Do you know why it's so thoroughly secure?" "Well, presumably because knowledge of its manufacture is severely restricted." "No! Knowledge of its manufacture is non-existent. No one knows how to make Fogbank! No one at all!"
"So, if our source is correct, the only person who knows how to make Fogbank lives somewhere in there." "Which makes him about the only thing that does." "At least we'll recognize him when we see him even if we don't recognize it when we see him, if he's the only one there, if you see what I mean." "Oh, shut up." "I'm just trying to help!"
Maybe he doesn't think it's that major. Maybe he thinks it's something between.1 and.0.
There is no middle ground. It's either a major revision or a minor revision. You're supposed to be counting them.
When counting how many atoms there are in Glucose (C6H12O6), do you count 24 of them or do you count Hydrogen as 1/12 the atom that Carbon is and Oxygen 1 1/3 times (26)? If the latter, you're not counting atoms anymore, you're summing atomic weights. Similarly, when you subdivide between revisions and repurpose them, you aren't counting revisions anymore.
For proper versioning, each field must monotonically increase; it's called counting!
But to not believe, don't you have to acknowledge or believe in something first?
You're confusing atheism (disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings) with nihilism (an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth).
Yet something that takes out the whole computer can still take out both drives. Backup drives should be in separate enclosures or at the very least readily removable so that they can be periodically moved off-site. This fails both.
If you don't want a clutter of wires, use a WiFi NAS for your backups. At least then you can prevent losing both drives to a coffee spill. (Don't use the Mac Mini as a coffee hot plate.)
Meanwhile, make sure you learn how to Remote Install Mac OS X for when you need to reinstall or upgrade to Snow Leopard since you can't boot off a Remote Disc drive. That is, assuming that ability exists on computers other than a MacBook Air. Otherwise, unless they've enabled booting off of USB drives (my mother's eMac couldn't) you're likely going to need a Firewire DVD-ROM drive and likely a Firewire 400-800 adapter or hub, or boot the Mac Mini into Target Disk Mode and install from another computer (which for some reason I had to do for my G4 Cube that wouldn't boot from the Leopard DVD).
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I'm sure that their motive has nothing to do with whether it makes the kindle "more useful". This threatens their monopoly market for the books.
You missed a word there. I added it for you.
That other vendor also allows me to build a shopping cart of books to buy at once, allowing me to build a list of what books are available that I like and thus determine if a Kindle-type device is right for me. Amazon's store only offers One-Click Buy-It-Now links, and the Save For Later links also only appear if you're using a Kindle to access the store. No shopping cart, no wishlists for Kindle Books for those not already locked in. Probably can't even buy a Kindle Book as a gift for another Kindle user.
If someone gets books to work with the reader that weren't purchased through Amazon, then they lose money.
How does Amazon lose money when you buy books they don't sell? Surely it's Amazon's fault for not carrying Ethyl the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.
Blank Reg: This is a network linker. It's a bit out of your league, idn'it, Paula? ... What's that?
Paula: So, whatch'll you trade for it?
Blank Reg: It's a book!
Paula: Well, what's that?
Blank Reg: It's a non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare. You should 'ave one.
Paula: Stuff it!
I prefer Tree Style Tab with the tabs down the left. Only problems I have with it are (1) closing a tab which is hiding other tabs closes them all (a feature), but Undo Close Tab only brings them back one at a time, and if it contained a lot, you can't get them all back, and (2) it occasionally locks up for me trying to drag tabs to new positions, but which I don't do very often.
Lazlow: Hello caller, you're on Chatterbox.
Caller: Yeah, hi, love the show, love hearing people's opinions. That's what made this country great: people. And opinions. And stuff. Most of all guns. I hate it when people whine about "guns kill people". Guns don't kill people, death kills people. Ask a doctor, it's a medical fact: you can't die from a bullet! You can die from a cardiac arrest or organ failure or a major hemorrhage -- a small piece of metal ain't the problem! Besides, I only use my machine gun in the safety of my own home or car, I ain't hurtin' nobody. And countries that don't have guns ain't American.
Lazlow: You know, that's a really good point: Countries that don't have guns aren't American... You know, if more people had guns there'd be less shootings in this country.
Strange Luck! One of the worst decisions by Fox was to cancel that gem.
And still not out on DVD. Not even available for an alert on Amazon (.com nor .co.uk).
I'm eerily reminded, by the thread you've started here, that the TV will never love anyone back.
"Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover."
I didn't really notice the exoskeletons in Exosquad. I paid more attention to the plight of the Neo-Sapiens. I also wasn't much of a toy collector at the time.
Indeed. It should be based on bowling: with 10 strikes you get two more.
Or use the rules of Brockian Ultra Cricket. The setting is already set up for apologizing at a distance.
What, no references to the Mechanically Automated NeuroTransmitter Interactive System?
My high school's computer programming class was also AppleSoft BASIC on Apple //e computers. For awhile it was a mandatory class. Eventually they created another class called Keyboarding, which really was just typing but using a computer instead of an IBM typewriter, and it counted as computer science credit.
Programs in the BASIC class were writing a database program (which I'd rewritten the original spaghetti code one year to use GOSUB instead of GOTOs, which then became the standard that was taught), a graphics program (make an interesting picture using BASIC, by formula or read from DATA statements), and finally a program using shape tables (to introduce binary and hexadecimal numbers and their conversion to decimal).
I'd spend at least a half hour every day in the high school's computer room while my mother finished for the day (a teacher in the same school) even before taking high school classes. I'd find myself writing other students' programs for money, teaching myself assembly language and the basics of how games were written for the platform, while at home I moved on from the Apple ][e to the IIgs and started applying what I learned to its capabilities.
Senior year, when it came time to take the course, I was just given credit and an extra free period as, during the previous summer, I'd already taken enough classes to have more college education on the subject than the teacher.
i bought a box set of games from Circuit City I think it was Half Life, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike. I installed it, and it needed to call home to activate. But the activation software version in the packaging was old, so I had to upgrade to the latest version. Did so, ran it again, and it gave me a terse alert telling me I still needed to upgrade, but it was the latest version, and it didn't even tell me where to go to get a newer version. The software sat unused for months on the hard drive.
Eventually I got curious again and did more searches and found that the registration software had been replaced and that I needed to install Steam to manage the games now. I did so, went to register... and the registration codes were already registered by someone else! Well, for everything other than Half-Life. Some more research and I found that the packager of my set of games had put the same registration keys in all the boxes! If it had been within the first 30 days, I could get a free set of keys. This being months later, they offered to sell me a new set of keys... for the same price I paid for the games, effectively doubling the price!
Except for Half-Life, they still sit unplayed on my hard drive.
And is the MPAA going to start requiring theaters to record exactly where each of its customers are sitting at each screening of every movie that might be pirated?
Yes, the movie will watch you. No foreign travel visa required.
This is not about Verizon. It is about Verizon Wireless...
So which one bought Alltel, and are Alltel customers who opted out with Alltel going find themselves "stealth opted-in"?
Alltel spun off its land-line and DSL services to Windstream, so since Alltel itself is completely wireless now, it's probably Verizon Wireless.
And it's also likely this change is so that this information can be shared with their new Alltel holdings as the merger gets underway and they converge to one billing system.
Sounds almost like a real-life game of tetris. In 3d. ;)
Who says videogames don't teach useful skills.
and cutting/unwinding wire ties in a dozen different places
Well, one thing you can do with those plastic-coated wire-ties is bend them into an oversized paper-clip shape. Add a pair of small googly eyes and you have your very own Clippy Action Figure (whom you can then torture in so many ways).
Hasn't Dell also shipped a box full of boxes each containing one carefully padded sheet of paper? Weren't they going to revisit their packaging system?
It makes the packaging used for two WristStrong bracelets from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report seem conservationist by comparison.
The SciFi Channel has already envisioned the same thing, except in their case it was an SUV that collapses small enough to carry in your purse.
"Fogbank is the most secure modification of Trident missile warheads in the world."
"I know that."
"Do you know why it's so thoroughly secure?"
"Well, presumably because knowledge of its manufacture is severely restricted."
"No! Knowledge of its manufacture is non-existent. No one knows how to make Fogbank! No one at all!"
"So, if our source is correct, the only person who knows how to make Fogbank lives somewhere in there."
"Which makes him about the only thing that does."
"At least we'll recognize him when we see him even if we don't recognize it when we see him, if he's the only one there, if you see what I mean."
"Oh, shut up."
"I'm just trying to help!"
Maybe he doesn't think it's that major. Maybe he thinks it's something between .1 and .0.
There is no middle ground. It's either a major revision or a minor revision. You're supposed to be counting them.
When counting how many atoms there are in Glucose (C6H12O6), do you count 24 of them or do you count Hydrogen as 1/12 the atom that Carbon is and Oxygen 1 1/3 times (26)? If the latter, you're not counting atoms anymore, you're summing atomic weights. Similarly, when you subdivide between revisions and repurpose them, you aren't counting revisions anymore.
For proper versioning, each field must monotonically increase; it's called counting!
Then it would be just as reasonable to have this progression:
3.4.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.6.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.9.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.11.1, 3.11.2, 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.3.1, 3.75, 4.0
"Religion for all."
"Boo!"
"Very well, no religion for anyone."
"BOO!"
"Hmm... religion for some, secular government for others!"
"YAY!"
But to not believe, don't you have to acknowledge or believe in something first?
You're confusing atheism (disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings) with nihilism (an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth).
Yet something that takes out the whole computer can still take out both drives. Backup drives should be in separate enclosures or at the very least readily removable so that they can be periodically moved off-site. This fails both.
If you don't want a clutter of wires, use a WiFi NAS for your backups. At least then you can prevent losing both drives to a coffee spill. (Don't use the Mac Mini as a coffee hot plate.)
Meanwhile, make sure you learn how to Remote Install Mac OS X for when you need to reinstall or upgrade to Snow Leopard since you can't boot off a Remote Disc drive. That is, assuming that ability exists on computers other than a MacBook Air. Otherwise, unless they've enabled booting off of USB drives (my mother's eMac couldn't) you're likely going to need a Firewire DVD-ROM drive and likely a Firewire 400-800 adapter or hub, or boot the Mac Mini into Target Disk Mode and install from another computer (which for some reason I had to do for my G4 Cube that wouldn't boot from the Leopard DVD).
We decided to see if we could stuff a full terabyte worth of storage into our new Mac mini. Why would anyone possibly want this much storage?
Brilliant! When the drive dies, it takes out your backup too!