As I understand it, in Australia you have to be 18 years old or older to enter into any legally bound contract. I have heard people joke about getting students on their summer holidays to install software for large corporations so that they could honestly say that no one from their copany had legallya ccted the terms of a software license.
Different methods will work for different people - my prefered method when working on a new model would be:
1. Make sure you have plenty of clear flat space - preferably 3-4 times the footprint of the device your disassembling.
2. As you remove screws from the device place them relative to the component you are removing - so if I'm going to take the base off, I will put if above where I'm working with the screws around where I will be putting the base, with the top left screw next the top left corner, etc... This is far easier to show than it is to describe.
When you go to reassemble the device, you know which screws go with which part.
Many years ago, I used to play in a White Wolf game with a Bastet character. I used to take a different 'toy' every session for my character to play with. One week I took a oil/water bubble toy along (like a sand timer in reverse with a mill wheel in the centre).
I had been sitting watching for some time, and went to turn it over when I noticed the household cat sitting opposite me also intently watching the bubbles rise trough the toy.
Personally I would prefer them in RTF format - I like to be able to easily take the relevent chunk of the module that I need for that session along with me to GM from. I have a preferred format for NPC and monster stat blocks (the WotC stat blocks make me dyslexic, I can never find the number I want in that crushed up little block of text). Putting it in a PDF just means I need to cut and paste it out into a text editor anyway, and hope that column control doesn't make too much of a hash of it for me.
Given the price of some items, while I know that it adds to the ease that these can be pirated, I think that some of the larger 'campaign sized' modules should come with a CD giving you the text of the module plus the maps. Examples would be "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" or "World's Largest Dungeon".
The edge to edge printing on many of these modules make them a pain to work from directly. RttToEE has statblocks together at the back of the module while it has the room descriptions at the start - so you are flipping back and forth the whole time. And being able to write on the maps, print them out larger, select sections of them to print off as handouts, without risking mangling the originals, would be great.
I work for Xerox - so I have no problems getting access to colour copiers - I sit 10m away from one and have weekend access to the building.:)
There was a transfer to DVD from LaserDisc of the original theatrical versions floating around at one stage - we got a copy from a friend. They include the special features disc from the LD version also.
We run movie marathons at home now, I think the longest we've done in a single sitting to date was "The Prisoner". We had to split "Twin Peaks" over two weekends.
In Australia there is a chain of cinemas with a 'prestige' screening room called Gold Class - they are small cinema's - seat 28, with waiter service and big recliner chairs. We arranged a group booking for the last three years for the theatrical screenings of LotR, with a session at home with the extended editions the weekend prior. We are definately planning an Extended Edition LotR marathon.
If you don't have cinema seating I would recommend either getting a mass of cushions/matresses for the floor or tell people to bring their own. Get disposable cups, tell people to BYO snacks and drinks. Make sure you have extra on hand anyway. Have planned intermissions - change of discs are a good time, and make sure everyone knows it's going to happen.
"Apple loyalists generally seem to look at the lowest of the low and assume all PC's are built the same way."
I take you point, so how about this, when PC advocates stop trying to do price comparisons between Macs and no-name wintel boxen, Apple advocates will stop using the same frame of reference for doing quality comparisons...
More to the point, as someone who used to specialise in repairing Apple PowerBooks, half the time the damage was done by over-enthusiastic techs who applied too much force in the wrong locations and didn't pay enough attention to where the screws came from.
We had one tech in our workshop who used to only ever replace the centre rear screw on the old grey clamshell powerbooks (PB170 era) and rely on the front clips to keep the casing together. Even worse were the units where someone had used the wrong screw in the wrong hole and striped the threads.
I used to keep stock of all the screws and little random parts for the powerbooks on hand to replace missing and broken bits from units worked on by other techs
Some years ago, I used ot be involved in the Camarilla roleplaying organisation (I got better). Their Mind's Eye Theatre system used disciplines based on what were reasonably obscure words - such as obfuscate, protean, auspex, diablorie, etc.... We used to refer to the system as teaching adverbs to Americans
Anyone listening to music through speakers at work will quickly be beaten to death by their co-workers anyway
I use my iPod connected up to a set of Sony SRS-T55 speakers, which sit on top of my monitor, most days. The volume is generally kept down to a point where it can really only be heard at my desk. It provides an slight audio barrier between myself and the world around me - helping me concentrate. But means that if someone comes to talk to me, I am aware of their presence without them needing to tap me on the shoulder to get my attention.
Things like the cost of a good mysteriously increasing in price up to 50% between the shelf and the cash register. And, according to those who this has happened to, is a regular occurance.
When barcode scanners were introduced to supermarkets in Australia some years ago, there was a Code of Conduct published by the Consumer Affairs department which requires retailers to charge the lowest published price (including shelf tags and advertising materials). In fact, I seem to recall that it used to be that you got the item free, but if there were multiple items (such cans of soup), you got the first one free and paid the lower price for the remainder.
More and more stores are selling cards with no value displayed on them. When you buy one it is blank and the person at the register adds both activation information and the value at the time the card is purchased.
I saw cards like these in K-Mart the other day in Melbourne (Australia), they were valid for use anywhere within the Coles-Myer retail chain.
As someone who switches between W2K at work and OSX at home on a daily basis, the biggest ongoing problem I have is keyboard shortcuts - I'm forever using the wrong modifier key
No kidding. Dammit, Apple! Do you know how many types of iPods you'll have to develop and sell to live down the 'Flower Power' iMac? Don't do this to yourself again.
I still have a Dalmation Dots iMac at home and use it daily - hoping to replace it with PowerBook later this year.
It was discounted because of the shell - but you never see it anyway.
The last few times I played, the game ended for me because a certain number of moves after you remove your common sense, your brain explodes - because you had materialised inside it...
Safe means use a condom and/or other means of avoiding STDs and pregnancies.
Sane means you are in your right head - if you're drunk or tripping your judgement is out the window, if you are doing it merely to fit in or look cool to your peers that's not sane.
Consensual means you both know and agree with what's going on. If either you or your partner is insensible becuase of drugs or drink you can't consent and it's rape. Don't do it to someone else and don't let yourself get into a situation where it can be done to you.
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As I understand it, in Australia you have to be 18 years old or older to enter into any legally bound contract. I have heard people joke about getting students on their summer holidays to install software for large corporations so that they could honestly say that no one from their copany had legallya ccted the terms of a software license.
Different methods will work for different people - my prefered method when working on a new model would be:
1. Make sure you have plenty of clear flat space - preferably 3-4 times the footprint of the device your disassembling.
2. As you remove screws from the device place them relative to the component you are removing - so if I'm going to take the base off, I will put if above where I'm working with the screws around where I will be putting the base, with the top left screw next the top left corner, etc... This is far easier to show than it is to describe.
When you go to reassemble the device, you know which screws go with which part.
Many years ago, I used to play in a White Wolf game with a Bastet character. I used to take a different 'toy' every session for my character to play with. One week I took a oil/water bubble toy along (like a sand timer in reverse with a mill wheel in the centre).
I had been sitting watching for some time, and went to turn it over when I noticed the household cat sitting opposite me also intently watching the bubbles rise trough the toy.
or a couple of fun movies that show the two ends of the spectrum for art theft try Thomas Crown Affair for the sublime, and Ordinary Decent Criminal for the ridiculous.
Personally I would prefer them in RTF format - I like to be able to easily take the relevent chunk of the module that I need for that session along with me to GM from. I have a preferred format for NPC and monster stat blocks (the WotC stat blocks make me dyslexic, I can never find the number I want in that crushed up little block of text). Putting it in a PDF just means I need to cut and paste it out into a text editor anyway, and hope that column control doesn't make too much of a hash of it for me.
Given the price of some items, while I know that it adds to the ease that these can be pirated, I think that some of the larger 'campaign sized' modules should come with a CD giving you the text of the module plus the maps. Examples would be "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" or "World's Largest Dungeon".
The edge to edge printing on many of these modules make them a pain to work from directly. RttToEE has statblocks together at the back of the module while it has the room descriptions at the start - so you are flipping back and forth the whole time. And being able to write on the maps, print them out larger, select sections of them to print off as handouts, without risking mangling the originals, would be great.
I work for Xerox - so I have no problems getting access to colour copiers - I sit 10m away from one and have weekend access to the building. :)
I never could get the hang of thursdays...
There was a transfer to DVD from LaserDisc of the original theatrical versions floating around at one stage - we got a copy from a friend. They include the special features disc from the LD version also.
We run movie marathons at home now, I think the longest we've done in a single sitting to date was "The Prisoner". We had to split "Twin Peaks" over two weekends.
In Australia there is a chain of cinemas with a 'prestige' screening room called Gold Class - they are small cinema's - seat 28, with waiter service and big recliner chairs. We arranged a group booking for the last three years for the theatrical screenings of LotR, with a session at home with the extended editions the weekend prior. We are definately planning an Extended Edition LotR marathon.
If you don't have cinema seating I would recommend either getting a mass of cushions/matresses for the floor or tell people to bring their own. Get disposable cups, tell people to BYO snacks and drinks. Make sure you have extra on hand anyway. Have planned intermissions - change of discs are a good time, and make sure everyone knows it's going to happen.
"Apple loyalists generally seem to look at the lowest of the low and assume all PC's are built the same way."
I take you point, so how about this, when PC advocates stop trying to do price comparisons between Macs and no-name wintel boxen, Apple advocates will stop using the same frame of reference for doing quality comparisons...
More to the point, as someone who used to specialise in repairing Apple PowerBooks, half the time the damage was done by over-enthusiastic techs who applied too much force in the wrong locations and didn't pay enough attention to where the screws came from.
We had one tech in our workshop who used to only ever replace the centre rear screw on the old grey clamshell powerbooks (PB170 era) and rely on the front clips to keep the casing together. Even worse were the units where someone had used the wrong screw in the wrong hole and striped the threads.
I used to keep stock of all the screws and little random parts for the powerbooks on hand to replace missing and broken bits from units worked on by other techs
Last time I checked, it seemed we were giving that house away rather than selling it...
Some years ago, I used ot be involved in the Camarilla roleplaying organisation (I got better). Their Mind's Eye Theatre system used disciplines based on what were reasonably obscure words - such as obfuscate, protean, auspex, diablorie, etc.... We used to refer to the system as teaching adverbs to Americans
Anyone listening to music through speakers at work will quickly be beaten to death by their co-workers anyway
I use my iPod connected up to a set of Sony SRS-T55 speakers, which sit on top of my monitor, most days. The volume is generally kept down to a point where it can really only be heard at my desk. It provides an slight audio barrier between myself and the world around me - helping me concentrate. But means that if someone comes to talk to me, I am aware of their presence without them needing to tap me on the shoulder to get my attention.
After all, how many readers use IE anyway?
Given I mostly read Slashdot from work on a SOE (mostly) compliant machine, I do.
Things like the cost of a good mysteriously increasing in price up to 50% between the shelf and the cash register. And, according to those who this has happened to, is a regular occurance.
When barcode scanners were introduced to supermarkets in Australia some years ago, there was a Code of Conduct published by the Consumer Affairs department which requires retailers to charge the lowest published price (including shelf tags and advertising materials). In fact, I seem to recall that it used to be that you got the item free, but if there were multiple items (such cans of soup), you got the first one free and paid the lower price for the remainder.
More and more stores are selling cards with no value displayed on them. When you buy one it is blank and the person at the register adds both activation information and the value at the time the card is purchased.
I saw cards like these in K-Mart the other day in Melbourne (Australia), they were valid for use anywhere within the Coles-Myer retail chain.
*snork*
now I have to clean my monitor
As someone who switches between W2K at work and OSX at home on a daily basis, the biggest ongoing problem I have is keyboard shortcuts - I'm forever using the wrong modifier key
No kidding. Dammit, Apple! Do you know how many types of iPods you'll have to develop and sell to live down the 'Flower Power' iMac? Don't do this to yourself again.
I still have a Dalmation Dots iMac at home and use it daily - hoping to replace it with PowerBook later this year.
It was discounted because of the shell - but you never see it anyway.
Infidel is one of the few I finished.
It was a cheese sandwich - not ham.
The last few times I played, the game ended for me because a certain number of moves after you remove your common sense, your brain explodes - because you had materialised inside it...
Safe means use a condom and/or other means of avoiding STDs and pregnancies.
Sane means you are in your right head - if you're drunk or tripping your judgement is out the window, if you are doing it merely to fit in or look cool to your peers that's not sane.
Consensual means you both know and agree with what's going on. If either you or your partner is insensible becuase of drugs or drink you can't consent and it's rape. Don't do it to someone else and don't let yourself get into a situation where it can be done to you.
Um... I just check the link light on the switch - it's a 'link' light, if there's no link at one end there's no link at the other...
It's referred to as the Printer's Triangle or the Law of Incompatible Goals : Good, Fast or Cheap - pick any two
If you want a job done fast and of high quality - it will be expensive.
If you want a job done fast and cheaply - it will be crap
If you want a job done well and cheaply - it will be slow