Or...you can use it for old-school one-player games like Nethack. The main reason you'd use the arrows on the numpad versus the arrows on the keypad is for the diagonals.
Also, hitting the . on the numpad to wait a turn is easier than hitting the . next to /
every library i've been to has been constantly hurting for money, and both library administrators i know spend the majority of their time attempting to secure grants. my local library recently held a fundraiser to replace old and damaged bookshelves, and people/organizations who donated a lot of money had a dedication plaque with their name on it on a shelf.
this system sounds like it will cost a hell of a lot of money to start up, let alone implement. the libraries must be getting grants from someone or somewhere to do it.
before you get conspiracy theories, follow the money.
i find this one of those brain-busting situations...morally, i can't support a lawsuit in which the plaintiff is accusing the defendant of refusing to install nasty spyware (are webhancer, bde, and toptext still bundled with kazaa?) i haven't touched most mainstream p2p clients in years, for that very reason. but i also obviously can't support the RIAA, for obvious reasons.
even though my support either way matters absolutely nothing in the long run, i am supportive of the fact that this lawsuit exists. why? because it'll distract them just a little bit more from doing other things that will piss me off.
and by the way, i don't know if the record companies are still using the same "encryption" scheme for preventing ripping tracks as they did in 2001, when tori amos's "strange little girls" was released. i bought that cd (used, of course...gold-stamped with "promotional use only"), and it's one of those corrupted discs. it doesn't play at all on my main computer...it just hangs when i try to access the disc's filespace, but i have a very old compaq (the ones they sold without audio cables and no way to hook one up, just so that they could save a buck by cutting corners, at their customers' expense) and i am able to listen to and rip all the tracks with it. i was highly surprised to find that that compaq is actually useful for something other than an expensive doorstop!
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Or...you can use it for old-school one-player games like Nethack. The main reason you'd use the arrows on the numpad versus the arrows on the keypad is for the diagonals. Also, hitting the . on the numpad to wait a turn is easier than hitting the . next to /
those have had wildcarded DNS for years now. sitefinder's nothing new.
every library i've been to has been constantly hurting for money, and both library administrators i know spend the majority of their time attempting to secure grants. my local library recently held a fundraiser to replace old and damaged bookshelves, and people/organizations who donated a lot of money had a dedication plaque with their name on it on a shelf. this system sounds like it will cost a hell of a lot of money to start up, let alone implement. the libraries must be getting grants from someone or somewhere to do it. before you get conspiracy theories, follow the money.
i find this one of those brain-busting situations...morally, i can't support a lawsuit in which the plaintiff is accusing the defendant of refusing to install nasty spyware (are webhancer, bde, and toptext still bundled with kazaa?) i haven't touched most mainstream p2p clients in years, for that very reason. but i also obviously can't support the RIAA, for obvious reasons.
even though my support either way matters absolutely nothing in the long run, i am supportive of the fact that this lawsuit exists. why? because it'll distract them just a little bit more from doing other things that will piss me off.
and by the way, i don't know if the record companies are still using the same "encryption" scheme for preventing ripping tracks as they did in 2001, when tori amos's "strange little girls" was released. i bought that cd (used, of course...gold-stamped with "promotional use only"), and it's one of those corrupted discs. it doesn't play at all on my main computer...it just hangs when i try to access the disc's filespace, but i have a very old compaq (the ones they sold without audio cables and no way to hook one up, just so that they could save a buck by cutting corners, at their customers' expense) and i am able to listen to and rip all the tracks with it. i was highly surprised to find that that compaq is actually useful for something other than an expensive doorstop!