Get a dictionary crack boy. I'm not in the U.S. and have no idea if or what a particular party called "Libertarian Party" in your country might believe.
Libertarians believe in individual rights, not corporate rights.
The corporation as a government-granted entity. The Libertarian view would be that the corporate charter should go back to only being granted for projects for the public good, like bridges.
There are some embedded flags that ensure that only these expensive "CD-Audio" recordables work in consumer CD audio recorders. Generic blanks won't function in these devices.
If it's the same as it was before, it only applies to blank CDs that are specifically designed for CD-Audio use, not bulk (eg. spindle) packs that may or may not be used for music.
More importantly, this levy goes hand-in-hand with the philosophy not of assumed guilt, but of "fair use" that includes sharing. Yes, sharing your tunes is perfectly legal in Canada, as it's simply assumed that people will continue to make copies and mixed CDs for friends, etc. in the new digital world.
librarying (verb) : To be in a library, doing something that makes use of resources available at libraries, such as working in a quiet environment or reading.
Yep, and GM is also pioneering hydrogen powered vehicles...
... while the Japanese are (again) dominating with hybrids.
Where's your nearest Hydrogen pumping station ?
Hydrogen is a pipe dream, and a dangerous one at that -- extracting hydrogen from water (destroying the water in the process) is a recipe for the end of life on Earth. The returned water is, as I understand it, less than what is net removed.
If GM continues to live in the Surreal World the price that will be paid will be the ultimate demise of The General. It's not as unimaginable as you might think. The analysts say the clock is already ticking...
Tribes is a great online game because it blends action with strategy.
Tribes was also one of the first online FPS games with useful vehicles.
Tribes also had classes and deployables before these things were fashionable.
Unfortunately, the all-too-common Tribes fan variant, otherwise known as the TribalWhore, went half-cocked kicking and screaming for everything but these fundamentals.
Perhaps you've heard the calls for jetpacks and skiing ? This 'aint Duke Nuke'em Forever set in the Rockies. Folks who thought these were the foundations of Tribes got exactly what they wanted with the last game in the franchise.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, the franchise now all but dead. Luckily there's no patent on vehicles, deployables, strategy... or jetpacks and skiing for that matter.
This 'aint no $20 Linux variant, you're talking about the mainstream PC OS from the world's biggest software factory. I sure hope they continue to support your $200+ investment.
What I'm talking about is the hanful of MS desktop OS licenses that I now own that are now all but worthless thanks to Microsoft and their pitiful incremental upgrades.
If Microsoft had a reasonable upgrade model we'd all be current. Instead, they strong-arm everyone to pay for the latest version. Imagine if shareware authors did the same...
I agree with other members regarding security -- firewalls, common sense, etc. beat constant reactive patching any day.
My big problem with Windows is the user interface, which hasn't really changed since 1995.
Things that shouldn't take any time (opening the file search pane, right-click for context menus) can take forever, everything important is saved in a single arcane "registry" file, and there is no way to realistically disable the "swap file" even if you have way too much RAM.
MSN's new search system already beats Google. Heck it's spidering my site on a regular basis, where I've had to ask Google to list it several times and it's only visited once or twice.
Seems Google is more interested in ad revenue and link placement, where Microsoft is only interested in spidering the web, like any good search engine should.
I'm surprised to be supporting Microsoft but they've got a winner this time... let hope they don't sell it out once they crush Gooooog.
Oh, and if you don't think Google can fall, remember Yahoo ? Heck, remember Webcrawler ? The nature of the net allows a better search to take off easily by word-of-mouth. If it works better, people will switch.
Quit your yammering. Of course microwaves create more microwave energy, otherwise there'd be a lineup of cooked laps in the emergency wards.
Microwaves, particularly at the 2.4 ghz range, are being studied more and more often now. Don't be surprised if they're conclusively found to be dangerous to living tissue regardless of source signal strength.
Painting your home or office with microwave-reflecting paint sounds like a stupid idea to me, but then again so does using a WiFi network.
Perhaps it's a good time to let research catch-up to product announcements.
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I'm sure it's been said but I'll try to say it better and/or shorter;)
People multitask because it is expected, encouraged, and considered vital, yet cognitive scientist David Meyer reports that truly effective multitasking is beyond people's capabilities.
The best multi-tasking is... human-folk getting computer(s) to perform long-duration tasks, particularly where other computing is concerned. Damn 'puters like to "make-work" if you know what I mean...
I'd agree that humans should do one thing at one time, but until technology catches-up, there are a lot of propellers to wind.
The Last Starfighter was hardly a ripoff of Star Wars.
The idea of being conscripted because of skills on a video game was unique to this flick, as far as I know.
Add the fact that it was one of the first, if not THE first movie to do all space fighting sequences with computer graphics, and, well, you have a winner.
I think the real issue is that Canadian mass-market beer is full strength, 5% alc/vol. Alcohol content is not listed on American beer, because from what I understand it's illegal to do so.
Sure, the U.S. has some fine micro-brews, but so does Canada and the rest of the world.
Coleco's promise to bring a computer module to their ColecoVision system ended-up killing them, despite it being a decent (but buggy) system, which was also available as a stand-alone computer (the ADAM).
But it's different this time: the XBox already is a PC, more-or-less. Since we've all standardized on this (horrid) PC platform, they have a much better chance at success with a PC-based console, especially these days when everyone wants a sleek black "media box" in their living room.
I've turned-off every service, every applet, everything, short of the XP fax manager (which is the machine's raison d'etre). If I'm lucky, I get a few minutes of peace and quiet at a time, every hour or so. I've even tried rebooting and not logging-in... and I check for virus/trojan and adware regularly.
I have an XP-based home-office PC that has to stay on in my bedroom. The damn thing spins-down the hard drive for a net time of approximately 20 minutes per day, even though the machine isn't running anything !!
I've even tried disconnecting the LAN cable... XP is just kludgey bloatware. That's no way to manage a high-tech soldier.
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Get a dictionary crack boy. I'm not in the U.S. and have no idea if or what a particular party called "Libertarian Party" in your country might believe.
*is* a government-granted entity.
When is Slashdot going to allow users to edit their posts, if even for a limited time period as on digg?
Libertarians believe in individual rights, not corporate rights.
The corporation as a government-granted entity. The Libertarian view would be that the corporate charter should go back to only being granted for projects for the public good, like bridges.
There are some embedded flags that ensure that only these expensive "CD-Audio" recordables work in consumer CD audio recorders. Generic blanks won't function in these devices.
If it's the same as it was before, it only applies to blank CDs that are specifically designed for CD-Audio use, not bulk (eg. spindle) packs that may or may not be used for music.
More importantly, this levy goes hand-in-hand with the philosophy not of assumed guilt, but of "fair use" that includes sharing. Yes, sharing your tunes is perfectly legal in Canada, as it's simply assumed that people will continue to make copies and mixed CDs for friends, etc. in the new digital world.
It's the end of the world.
Counterweight ?? Don't you mean countermass ???
Not that microgravity is zero-gravity... aren't all things in orbit in a free-fall towards the earth anyway ?
Hmm, one end tethered to the planet, and the other in microgravity... I'm calling my grade 12 Physics teacher.
1) We don't yet have an efficient way of extracting hydrogen from water.
2) Water will be the next oil, according to leaked Pentagon reports.
And that's not in 100 years but 20 years.
Still want to rip apart the planet's water molecules to feed The General?
Yep, and GM is also pioneering hydrogen powered vehicles...
... while the Japanese are (again) dominating with hybrids.
Where's your nearest Hydrogen pumping station ?
Hydrogen is a pipe dream, and a dangerous one at that -- extracting hydrogen from water (destroying the water in the process) is a recipe for the end of life on Earth. The returned water is, as I understand it, less than what is net removed.
If GM continues to live in the Surreal World the price that will be paid will be the ultimate demise of The General. It's not as unimaginable as you might think. The analysts say the clock is already ticking...
It's not that God hates trailer parks, it's more that trailer parks are usually built in disaster zones.
Then there's the banks of the Mississippi...
And now there's New Orleans.
Makes me wonder if future generations will build communities around rotted nuclear fission plants because of the 'warm glow' ...
Google is clearly getting arrogant -- they're not even the best search anymore (though they continue to add nifty services at a rapid clip).
Most arrogant is the recent "tweak" to the AdWords pricing. They basically doubled prices overnight.
I cancelled the account that I had set-up for my not-for-profit website (totalk.ca Toronto talk site).
> there's a real problem with people buying and
> selling multi-day tickets that have unused days
> on them
Take a look at this article on Slashdot today. Maybe you should adjust your licensing model instead of calling your customers thieves.
Ever think this "real problem" is really just a large corporation trying to force people to waste their unused days ?
When a horrible reason is behind a horrible idea, it's time to run. Run far away.
Umm, ya, that's the ticket, blame the fans ! Damn oversaturated lot of 'ya ;)
Tribes is a great online game because it blends action with strategy.
Tribes was also one of the first online FPS games with useful vehicles.
Tribes also had classes and deployables before these things were fashionable.
Unfortunately, the all-too-common Tribes fan variant, otherwise known as the TribalWhore, went half-cocked kicking and screaming for everything but these fundamentals.
Perhaps you've heard the calls for jetpacks and skiing ? This 'aint Duke Nuke'em Forever set in the Rockies. Folks who thought these were the foundations of Tribes got exactly what they wanted with the last game in the franchise.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, the franchise now all but dead. Luckily there's no patent on vehicles, deployables, strategy... or jetpacks and skiing for that matter.
This 'aint no $20 Linux variant, you're talking about the mainstream PC OS from the world's biggest software factory. I sure hope they continue to support your $200+ investment.
What I'm talking about is the hanful of MS desktop OS licenses that I now own that are now all but worthless thanks to Microsoft and their pitiful incremental upgrades.
If Microsoft had a reasonable upgrade model we'd all be current. Instead, they strong-arm everyone to pay for the latest version. Imagine if shareware authors did the same...
I agree with other members regarding security -- firewalls, common sense, etc. beat constant reactive patching any day.
My big problem with Windows is the user interface, which hasn't really changed since 1995.
Things that shouldn't take any time (opening the file search pane, right-click for context menus) can take forever, everything important is saved in a single arcane "registry" file, and there is no way to realistically disable the "swap file" even if you have way too much RAM.
Oh, and it can't multitask for sh!t.
MSN's new search system already beats Google. Heck it's spidering my site on a regular basis, where I've had to ask Google to list it several times and it's only visited once or twice.
Seems Google is more interested in ad revenue and link placement, where Microsoft is only interested in spidering the web, like any good search engine should.
I'm surprised to be supporting Microsoft but they've got a winner this time... let hope they don't sell it out once they crush Gooooog.
Oh, and if you don't think Google can fall, remember Yahoo ? Heck, remember Webcrawler ? The nature of the net allows a better search to take off easily by word-of-mouth. If it works better, people will switch.
> In short MOD PARENT DOWN, it's WRONG
Quit your yammering. Of course microwaves create more microwave energy, otherwise there'd be a lineup of cooked laps in the emergency wards.
Microwaves, particularly at the 2.4 ghz range, are being studied more and more often now. Don't be surprised if they're conclusively found to be dangerous to living tissue regardless of source signal strength.
Painting your home or office with microwave-reflecting paint sounds like a stupid idea to me, but then again so does using a WiFi network.
Perhaps it's a good time to let research catch-up to product announcements.
I'm sure it's been said but I'll try to say it better and/or shorter ;)
People multitask because it is expected, encouraged, and considered vital, yet cognitive scientist David Meyer reports that truly effective multitasking is beyond people's capabilities.
The best multi-tasking is... human-folk getting computer(s) to perform long-duration tasks, particularly where other computing is concerned. Damn 'puters like to "make-work" if you know what I mean...
I'd agree that humans should do one thing at one time, but until technology catches-up, there are a lot of propellers to wind.
The Last Starfighter was hardly a ripoff of Star Wars.
The idea of being conscripted because of skills on a video game was unique to this flick, as far as I know.
Add the fact that it was one of the first, if not THE first movie to do all space fighting sequences with computer graphics, and, well, you have a winner.
As far as a musical.. umm... well...
I think the real issue is that Canadian mass-market beer is full strength, 5% alc/vol. Alcohol content is not listed on American beer, because from what I understand it's illegal to do so.
Sure, the U.S. has some fine micro-brews, but so does Canada and the rest of the world.
Don't forget the Intellivision keyboard.
Coleco's promise to bring a computer module to their ColecoVision system ended-up killing them, despite it being a decent (but buggy) system, which was also available as a stand-alone computer (the ADAM).
But it's different this time: the XBox already is a PC, more-or-less. Since we've all standardized on this (horrid) PC platform, they have a much better chance at success with a PC-based console, especially these days when everyone wants a sleek black "media box" in their living room.
Only problem, they may not be first...
I've turned-off every service, every applet, everything, short of the XP fax manager (which is the machine's raison d'etre). If I'm lucky, I get a few minutes of peace and quiet at a time, every hour or so. I've even tried rebooting and not logging-in... and I check for virus/trojan and adware regularly.
I have an XP-based home-office PC that has to stay on in my bedroom. The damn thing spins-down the hard drive for a net time of approximately 20 minutes per day, even though the machine isn't running anything !!
I've even tried disconnecting the LAN cable... XP is just kludgey bloatware. That's no way to manage a high-tech soldier.