I don't think "They" understand that Landover Baptist is supposed to be humorous. Sad, but it's way under the radar. Kinda like a Beijing newspaper would print an Onion story as news, and not realize it.
Who gets to ask? Does there need to be an indictment first? What if he says "yes, everthing is true TTBOMK?" Unless he's under oath, it's the same lies.
>Point is, restaurants get money for their old oil. >Why would they give it away?
No, not quite. They pay to have the grease hauled away, along with their other food waste, which is often separate from the usual garbage.
Storing it indefinitely is a nuisance (and is regulated by law in many places), and so it is of value to the restaurant to have it hauled away, just as it is with, say, the butcher's carcassess, which don't just get thrown out with the municipal garbage.
Now, the recycler gets a fee for collecting this stuff, and he also gets to collect for whatever he can convert it into.
None of this means that the grease itself is a directly profitable commodity, just that it is enough of a nuisance that the collection of it is a viable service business, and that part of the disposal process includes a certain amount of recycling.
When you are no longer the only person in your whole state with a frygrease conversion vehicle, you won't be able to simply ask the restaurant if you can have their fat for free. (And taking it without asking is tresspassing.)
The article gives a "price" for the digital equipment.
Something important to consider is that businesses LEASE their equipment. Also, consider that the standard "old fashioned" equipment will run between $30,000 to $50,000 per screen (for a platter system, scope lenses, etc.) and THAT stuff is usually leased also. Sure, any theatre that is currently in busniess has sunk costs on that stuff, but the digital isn't *astronomically* more expensive.
>What *does* exist out there only seems to be able to >recognize a (*cough* *cough*) Sound Blaster MIDI >port. Any suggestions?
Although I haven't tried it with my USB MidiSport, I understand that USB MIDI devices are supported in 2.5.
There's a whole lot of audio software for Linux but still relatively little to make it a serious choice. I do really like ARTSd, but I have latency problems when I run it; problems I don't have running windows softwae (esp. Magix 6, FruityLoops).
I'm a total Linux enthusiast for the most part, but when it comes to my music, Linux is not suitable to the task both because of software availability, and driver compatability.
Because that's not how it works, and your suggestion will accomplish nothing.
A patent, once granted, must be subjected to due process in order to challenge it. You would have to be (or represent) a damaged party, and you would have to bring a case into the judicial system.
So you don't think of the frame as being an art form? Or else you wouldn't mind if ads got placed on, say, impressionist paintings in a museum gallery, covering up part of the paintings?
It turns my stomach, and I'm surprised some producers don't pull the broadcast rights for their content when they get wind of this.
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Paradroid.
It's worth playing now. It runs really well on VICE, and if I could, I would make a C64 ROM cartridge of it.
I wish there was a pc version; and I'd even like to see an updated take on the game...
Since reading your post, I've installed and played it on the Vice that comes with debian. Can't wait to get home and run it on a real breadbox; thanks!!
Who, where, what was the cause of death, the date?
Please provide some reference to a credible news story or other source.
Was it an electrocution? I wonder how many pinball/jukebox/arcade service people have been electrocuted by entertainment devices?
You've trotted out a sensational story without even attempting to corroborate it.
This looks like a promising lead. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=video+gam e+death &hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=anews.Aihps3.210 &rnum=8
Only in this story, the cause of death was a heart condition, and he died while playing Berserk. I don't think that implicates the game or the arcade, and to suggest otherwise would be quite irresponsible, if not libelous.
If the Governor of Nevada wanted to make an interational incident, he could bring some military force to bear against this.
In the end, it will be the State of Nevada caving to Federal pressure, since the issue does not rise to the level of a states' rights question worthy of conflict.
Yes, whatever Nevada Guard and militia would be handily suppressed, but if a State became willing to even entertain the possibility of again resisting Federal authority, the world would notice, and public sympathies might be with the the underdog.
But, what will really happen is that the people in charge will realize the Yucca Mountain issue isn't important enough to sacrifice lives, careers, domestic tranquility, and the union.
Well, beyond "7 nines" you would start talking about 100% reliability. So you start with contingency plans for a terrorist attack on one data center at the same moment of a quake under another data center. Now you're in the realm of needing your own redudant power plants, and probably network infrastructure that does not really exist yet.
So in reality, your guarantee of "9 nines" or, effectively ZERO downtime for the life of the product, really would be specified in terms of compensation and not technology. In other words, you'd be stating what the client will receieve when (not if) the uptime guarantee is not met.
>I'd hate to be the guy to have to dig up the >version of WordPerfect that could read a 200- >year-old document.;)
I laughed when I read this. As a legal secretary for an oil company, I routinely worked with documents from the 1880's, and for word processing, I used WordPerfect exclusively (as did the entire industry).
Actually the law in Maricopa County (Phoenix, in case someone thinks it's a small town), is more of a safety valve, that says the county can back out of contracts under certain conditions if they want to. The law by no means requires the county to stop buying from Microsoft, nor does it make doing so illegal.
I would personally be DELIGHTED if it were more obvious that so many people do NOT "OWN" their property. "Their" homes belong to the bank, as does "their" car, and for many, even "their" clothes and furniture! But it LOOKS like they own it, and it's not simple to tell the difference between someone who is beholden to a bank on a mortgage, versus someone who actually owns their property. As a result, the debt culture thrives. If it were more obvious, the line between the "haves" and the "wish they hads" would be more clear.
Also, Arizona has some interesting wording on the rental contracts I've seen at the airport: It specifies that if you violate the clause that states that you must return the car within 24 hours of the due date, you will do time in the State Penitentiary. (Note that, to be constitutional, state law should require them to specify that you might be *tried* and *could possibly* go to prison, but the rental agreement was more to the point!)
>the russians have a less altrusitic attitude >towards their cosmonauts; perhaps a bit like their > military personnel.
Is there a culture that could propose a spacefaring journey that does not require the astronauts to return? Suicide mission is not an option for NASA, nor for Russia, nor France.
If you could be the first person on Mars but knew you'd die there, that there was no return possibility, would you go? I'm betting there are people that would volunteer for this mission. I'll even bet that there are USAns who would do it! But no space agency currently has a culture that would even entertain the notion.
I haven't owned a corvette but I've driven a few. All but one handled extremely well! (The one that handled just "well" was a '59 vette, which handles like a bel-air). It's no Saab, but I would call it "poor" handling ever.
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I don't think "They" understand that Landover Baptist is supposed to be humorous. Sad, but
it's way under the radar. Kinda like a Beijing
newspaper would print an Onion story as news, and
not realize it.
Who gets to ask? Does there need to be an indictment first? What if he says "yes, everthing is true TTBOMK?" Unless he's under
oath, it's the same lies.
>Guess what, 90% of people run IE...
Yeah, and a good number of them will be asking their local nerd "how can I get rid of this annoying 'insecure' deal that pops up all the time?"
And a few of them will get mozilla, a few will get registry edits, and life goes on.
>Point is, restaurants get money for their old oil.
>Why would they give it away?
No, not quite. They pay to have the grease hauled away, along with their other food waste, which is often separate from the usual garbage.
Storing it indefinitely is a nuisance (and is regulated by law in many places), and so it is of value to the restaurant to have it hauled away, just as it is with, say, the butcher's carcassess, which don't just get thrown out with the municipal garbage.
Now, the recycler gets a fee for collecting this stuff, and he also gets to collect for whatever he can convert it into.
None of this means that the grease itself is a directly profitable commodity, just that it is enough of a nuisance that the collection of it is a viable service business, and that part of the disposal process includes a certain amount of recycling.
When you are no longer the only person in your whole state with a frygrease conversion vehicle, you won't be able to simply ask the restaurant if you can have their fat for free. (And taking it without asking is tresspassing.)
You've never heard of boats?
The article gives a "price" for the digital equipment.
Something important to consider is that businesses LEASE their equipment. Also, consider that the standard "old fashioned" equipment will run between $30,000 to $50,000 per screen (for a platter system, scope lenses, etc.) and THAT stuff is usually leased also. Sure, any theatre that is currently in busniess has sunk costs on that stuff, but the digital isn't *astronomically* more expensive.
>What *does* exist out there only seems to be able to
>recognize a (*cough* *cough*) Sound Blaster MIDI
>port. Any suggestions?
Although I haven't tried it with my USB MidiSport,
I understand that USB MIDI devices are supported in 2.5.
There's a whole lot of audio software for Linux but still relatively little to make it a serious choice.
I do really like ARTSd, but I have latency problems when I run it; problems I don't have running windows softwae (esp. Magix 6, FruityLoops).
I'm a total Linux enthusiast for the most part, but
when it comes to my music, Linux is not suitable to the task both because of software availability, and driver compatability.
Because that's not how it works, and your suggestion will accomplish nothing.
A patent, once granted, must be subjected to due process in order to challenge it. You would have to be (or represent) a damaged party, and you would have to bring a case into the judicial system.
So you don't think of the frame as being an art form?
Or else you wouldn't mind if ads got placed on, say,
impressionist paintings in a museum gallery, covering up part of the paintings?
It turns my stomach, and I'm surprised some producers
don't pull the broadcast rights for their content when they get wind of this.
Paradroid.
It's worth playing now. It runs really well on VICE, and if I could, I would make a C64 ROM cartridge of it.
I wish there was a pc version; and I'd even like to see an updated take on the game...
> I loved Raid on Bungeling Bay on the C64!!!
The emulators really aren't bad at all; try vice.
Since reading your post, I've installed and played it on the Vice that comes with debian. Can't wait to get home and run it on a real breadbox; thanks!!
So, will someone PLEASE write a good explanation of how to install fonts in Linux?
There are several conflicting font servers,
and the average user should not even need to understand what a font server is!
Also, why don't we have DPS, like Solaris has?
> no, someone actually died playing this game
m e+death &hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=anews.Aihps3.210 &rnum=8
Who, where, what was the cause of death, the date?
Please provide some reference to a credible news story or other source.
Was it an electrocution? I wonder how many pinball/jukebox/arcade service people have been electrocuted by entertainment devices?
You've trotted out a sensational story without even attempting to corroborate it.
This looks like a promising lead.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=video+ga
Only in this story, the cause of death was a heart condition, and he died while playing Berserk. I don't think that implicates the game or the arcade, and to suggest otherwise would be quite irresponsible, if not libelous.
"Intruder Alert! Get the Humanoid!"
If the Governor of Nevada wanted to make an interational incident,
he could bring some military force to bear against this.
In the end, it will be the State of Nevada caving to Federal
pressure, since the issue does not rise to the level
of a states' rights question worthy of conflict.
Yes, whatever Nevada Guard and militia would be handily suppressed,
but if a State became willing to even entertain the possibility of
again resisting Federal authority, the world would notice, and public sympathies
might be with the the underdog.
But, what will really happen is that the people in charge will
realize the Yucca Mountain issue isn't important enough to
sacrifice lives, careers, domestic tranquility, and the union.
Okay, I want a CAR made out of the same stuff as this cask.
>Beyond that, it doesn't much matter.
Well, beyond "7 nines" you would start talking about 100% reliability. So you start with contingency plans for a terrorist attack on
one data center at the same moment of a quake under another data center. Now you're in the realm of needing your own redudant power plants, and probably network infrastructure that does not
really exist yet.
So in reality, your guarantee of "9 nines" or, effectively ZERO downtime for the life of the product, really would be specified in terms of compensation and not technology. In other words,
you'd be stating what the client will receieve when (not if) the uptime guarantee is not met.
>they don't know any better till they get screwed
>by one (or all) of these companies...
They don't know better AFTERWARDS either. They go straight back to the same habits, shifting their collective focus at the change of sports seasons.
>Moorish artisans used to purposedly introduce a
>mistake in their tile designs, as it would be
>presumptous for a mere mortal to attempt
>perfection.
I've heard that about Navajo rugs too, but have never been able to verify it.
How about a double blind study to compare these findings to office workers, tv watchers, etc.?
If it's expressly guaranteed by law, doctrine, or jurisprudence, then it is a right.
It may not be an inalienable right, but it is still a right. That's what having the force of
law protecting you MEANS.
>I'd hate to be the guy to have to dig up the
>version of WordPerfect that could read a 200-
>year-old document.
I laughed when I read this. As a legal secretary for an oil company, I routinely worked with documents from the 1880's, and for word processing, I used WordPerfect exclusively (as did the entire industry).
Actually the law in Maricopa County (Phoenix, in case someone thinks it's a small town), is more of
a safety valve, that says the county can back out of contracts under certain conditions if they want to. The law by no means requires the county
to stop buying from Microsoft, nor does it make doing so illegal.
You reach some interesting conclusions.
I would personally be DELIGHTED if it were
more obvious that so many people do NOT "OWN"
their property. "Their" homes belong to the bank,
as does "their" car, and for many, even "their"
clothes and furniture! But it LOOKS like they own
it, and it's not simple to tell the difference between
someone who is beholden to a bank on a mortgage, versus
someone who actually owns their property. As a result,
the debt culture thrives. If it were more obvious, the line
between the "haves" and the "wish they hads" would
be more clear.
Also, Arizona has some interesting wording on the rental
contracts I've seen at the airport: It specifies that if
you violate the clause that states that you must return the
car within 24 hours of the due date, you will do
time in the State Penitentiary. (Note that, to be constitutional, state
law should require them to specify that you might be *tried* and
*could possibly* go to prison, but the rental agreement was
more to the point!)
>the russians have a less altrusitic attitude
>towards their cosmonauts; perhaps a bit like their
> military personnel.
Is there a culture that could propose a spacefaring journey that does not require the astronauts to return? Suicide mission is not an option for NASA, nor for Russia, nor France.
If you could be the first person on Mars but knew you'd die there, that there was no return possibility, would you go? I'm betting there are people that would volunteer for this mission. I'll even bet that there are USAns who would do it! But no space agency currently has a culture that would even entertain the notion.
I haven't owned a corvette but I've driven a few.
All but one handled extremely well! (The one that
handled just "well" was a '59 vette, which handles like a bel-air).
It's no Saab, but I would call it "poor" handling ever.