Flood insurance is only offered by the federal government. Private insurance companies don't offer it, at least to anyone in a flood plain, because they have recognized that to do so is to subsidize this cycle of flooding/rebuilding/flooding/rebuilding ad nauseum.
I wish the government would figure this out too. The homeowners in the area with homeowner's insurance are covered for damage due to wind and wind-driven rain, just not flooding.
The problem with the first floor idea is that there are 3 story buildings with the roof just sticking out of the water. You'd have to add at least 3 or 4 stories of building to be sacrificed to flooding, at which point it makes more sense to raise the ground level to at least 10 feet above sea level.
True, but the XML part of this framework isn't really necessary. Why send a lot of xml text back to the browser and then make it load it into memory and walk through it? It's often better to send back a Javascript array - no real overhead for the browser or the internet connection.
BTW, OWA is so much more pleasant to use in Firefox (without all the dynamic crap) than it is in IE. It's sooooo slow in IE when all I want is webmail.
I have yet to play a single MMORPG actually (no time). But years ago I was heavily into MUDs. On my favorite one people were fairly good at staying within their character, usually because you joined a guild that rewarded good characters for acting good, and evil characters for acting evil. Hack and slash is much more fun in a visual game, so the text-based system probably helped in that aspect.
Well there was a Warcraft Fantasy Role-Playing Game as far back as 15 years ago. It had an awesome, intuitive combat system with very minimal dice rolling. It was my favorite role-playing game of all time. I'm sad to see them falling in line with the cumbersome AD&D type systems. AD&D type systems are why people flocked to computer RPGs in the first place, just too complex and annoying.
This isn't for applications that run on Linux. Look at windows, all the boxed software will say "Windows-compatible" with no trademark sign. That's fine. This would apply to distributions IMHO, things that are marketed AS Linux.
From the groklaw article:
A mark is infringed under U.S. trademark law when another person uses a device (a mark) so as to cause confusion as to the source or sponsorship of the goods or services involved.
The new version of BeOS or AmigaOS labelling themselves as Linux would do this - OpenOffice saying it runs on Linux would not.
Um, microsoft would not need a license to say that IIS supported PHP. I don't believe PHP is trademarked, but even if it were this would be the case. They couldn't make a product called PHP Server, but there's nothing wrong with saying IIS now supports PHP. They already have a product, and that's IIS, and IIS and PHP aren't even the same type of product (server vs scripting language).
Yes, and a simple search for Lineage II EULA would have found this:
7. OFFICIAL SERVICE
NC Interactive has designed Lineage II for play only as offered by NC Interactive at the Web Site. You agree to play Lineage II only as offered by NC Interactive at the Web Site and not through any other means. You agree not to use any hardware or software, including but not limited to third party tools, or any other method of support which may in any way influence or advantage your use of the Service which is not authorized by NC Interactive, including but not limited to the use of 'bots' and/or any other method by which the Service may be played automatically without human input. You further agree not to create or provide any other means through which Lineage II may be played by others, as through server emulators. You acknowledge that you do not have the right to create, publish, distribute, create derivative works from or use any software programs, utilities, applications, emulators or tools derived from or created for Lineage II, except that you may use the Software to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement. You may not take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You may not sell or auction any Lineage II accounts, characters, items, coin or copyrighted material.
Oh so sorry that I thought it was in the TOS instead of the EULA.
Really? You read it? Did you happen to maybe press ctrl-f and type in sell? Here's what it says (look at the last line):
7. OFFICIAL SERVICE
NC Interactive has designed Lineage II for play only as offered by NC Interactive at the Web Site. You agree to play Lineage II only as offered by NC Interactive at the Web Site and not through any other means. You agree not to use any hardware or software, including but not limited to third party tools, or any other method of support which may in any way influence or advantage your use of the Service which is not authorized by NC Interactive, including but not limited to the use of 'bots' and/or any other method by which the Service may be played automatically without human input. You further agree not to create or provide any other means through which Lineage II may be played by others, as through server emulators. You acknowledge that you do not have the right to create, publish, distribute, create derivative works from or use any software programs, utilities, applications, emulators or tools derived from or created for Lineage II, except that you may use the Software to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement. You may not take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You may not sell or auction any Lineage II accounts, characters, items, coin or copyrighted material.
1) How do you know he used a bot? There's just an accusation.
2) The same TOS say that you're not allowed to sell any virtual property. So the 'victims' here did not lose anything of monetary value. To say they did would be to say the TOS is meaningless, thus making bot use irrelevant as well.
Amen brother. These things cannot be worth money, because once the game eventually shuts down what are the owners going to do with their virutal sword? Nothing. It's worthless.
Yes, but we've also seen things sold on ebay like "my eternal hatred - i promise to spend one hour a day thinking about how much i hate you."
Does my eternal hatred have any intrinsic value?
How about the older MMORPGs? How's the economy of everquest doing? What will happen when it shuts down? If the company pulling the plug on the game makes all the items worthless, then they never had any intrinsic value.
How can you say he deprived anyone of something of value? He rearranged a few bits in a database, in a game which allows player killing.
If the game server crashed and lost 3 days worth of data, could the players sue the game company for financial loss? That would have bankrupted Blizzard if the idea that you actually 'owned' these items were legally valid.
I don't believe you have any 'right' to your virutal items. They're bits on a server. You have a right to play your game, because you paid for it and agreed to a contract. The game company has a right to deny you the ability to play the game if you break that contract. At no point do you become liable to your fellow gamers just because you're playing this game.
How would you like to have another player accuse you of this? How do you know he commited fraud? How could you possibly prove your innocence? Just because another character kicked your butt, that doesn't mean that they're a bot. Are they going to bring in eyewitnesses? Examine server logs? This is freakin' retarded.
The thing with those apps are that Apple is limited to selling them to 5% of the market. They've already spent the money developing them. They're planning on spending more upgrading them. They have no intention of porting them to windows. But, there are probably many people who would like to use them if they could run OSX on their existing hardware. Why is that a loss for Apple? Sell the OS, sell the apps to your new market, and the software sales section of their revenue sheet can't do anything but go up.
And if you'd looked at the url I had there, you would have seen that Monsanto SUED someone because their neighbor's GM crops spread the genes into his crops - a clear example of contamination and the genes getting out into the wild. You think "oh, it's science, therefore it must be safe?" BS. When genetic engineering first started, tailored viruses were used to get the gene to the right place. Later on, in order to experiment faster, a physical method was developed to shove the genes in place. Quicker, but not as stable, the genes tend to migrate. Unfortunately that's what's been used in commercial GM crops. And, duh, this is from a scientist.
Post some links to back up your statement. I've always heard that the best for water runoff were, in order: 1) no-till farming, 2) organic farming, 3) conventional farming.
I haven't worked with it, but Zope (zope.org) is written in Python. You might be able to transition to it by putting whatever content management type stuff you have in there while figuring out how to do whatever it doesn't do in python yourself. There are a number of commerce modules for it, don't know how easy it would be to modify them rather than just doing it yourself. I'm sure there will be a bunch of code you do yourself, but no sense reinventing the wheel for basic website stuff.
There are many health issues related to farm raised meat. Here's one: 80% of antibiotics used in America are used on livestock. Do you really want to be consuming low levels of antibiotics on a constant basis? These are a definite contributor to anti-biotic resistant strains.
As far as organic vegetables, it's largely about the environmental impact, i.e. you don't get the huge nitrogen fertilizer run-off into the water supply. Also, you know that you're not eating genetically modified food. The genetically modified foods out today are pretty primitive and offer no benefits to those who eat them. The big example is the Roundup Ready varieties of plants. These have been modified for one purpose - to allow the plants to withstand huge amounts of pesticide sprayed on the crops. Do you think pesticides wash off? They can be found inside the plant up to several months after the application, since the plants just soaking up liquids.
Future gm crops get pretty weird, like putting fish 'antifreeze' genes in tomatoes to let them grow longer into the season. Good idea? Who knows? Will these genes spread into the weeds around the cropland, allowing them to become more noxious? Again, who knows? I do know the roundup ready genes have spread in the wild: Monsanto actually sued a GM-free farmer when his neighbor's GM crop contaminated his GM-free crop (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=1289).
Hmm, I wonder if eating meat derived from your own tissue would have any special nutritional benefits since it would need minimal breakdown to be used by your body?
Did you read my post? I said she spent $5,000 of her OWN money to pay for studio time. Yeah, the album's raw sounding, and all the better for it. The studios are happy to let you run up a huge bill for weeks of studio time (at their studios) because that comes out of what would be paid to the artist, and is instead paid to their studio group, i.e. they get to keep most of it since the actual costs to them do not equal the charges to the musician.
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I read an article on informationweek.com that says spammers are enthusiastically adopting sender id in an attempt to legitimize themselves, or at least avoid filtering.
But since spamming is legal, those spammers not engaged in phishing or other fraud may choose to accurately identify their mail servers to avoid filtering based on Sender ID compliance. And that seems to be what's happening. Based on a sample of 400,000 spam messages, MX Logic found that 16% had published SPF records.
So spammers have a 16% adoption rate of sender id, legit businesses have an 18% adoption rate. Doesn't look too successful yet.
Delete the studio techs from that list. With most major label contracts the band actually ends up paying for the studio time as it comes out of the profits from the album.
Which is why someone smart, like PJ Harvey, would take $5,000 of her own money and record cheaply, so she's not paying for a bunch of studio time out of the album's profits.
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There were many apartment complexes and such that were built like this. It just gave the water a nice hunk of steel to slam into walls and supports.
Flood insurance is only offered by the federal government. Private insurance companies don't offer it, at least to anyone in a flood plain, because they have recognized that to do so is to subsidize this cycle of flooding/rebuilding/flooding/rebuilding ad nauseum.
I wish the government would figure this out too. The homeowners in the area with homeowner's insurance are covered for damage due to wind and wind-driven rain, just not flooding.
The problem with the first floor idea is that there are 3 story buildings with the roof just sticking out of the water. You'd have to add at least 3 or 4 stories of building to be sacrificed to flooding, at which point it makes more sense to raise the ground level to at least 10 feet above sea level.
True, but the XML part of this framework isn't really necessary. Why send a lot of xml text back to the browser and then make it load it into memory and walk through it? It's often better to send back a Javascript array - no real overhead for the browser or the internet connection.
BTW, OWA is so much more pleasant to use in Firefox (without all the dynamic crap) than it is in IE. It's sooooo slow in IE when all I want is webmail.
There was an article on slashdot a couple days ago about ibm donating a large section of code to firefox to enhance accessibility in ajax apps.
I have yet to play a single MMORPG actually (no time). But years ago I was heavily into MUDs. On my favorite one people were fairly good at staying within their character, usually because you joined a guild that rewarded good characters for acting good, and evil characters for acting evil. Hack and slash is much more fun in a visual game, so the text-based system probably helped in that aspect.
Well there was a Warcraft Fantasy Role-Playing Game as far back as 15 years ago. It had an awesome, intuitive combat system with very minimal dice rolling. It was my favorite role-playing game of all time. I'm sad to see them falling in line with the cumbersome AD&D type systems. AD&D type systems are why people flocked to computer RPGs in the first place, just too complex and annoying.
From the groklaw article:
The new version of BeOS or AmigaOS labelling themselves as Linux would do this - OpenOffice saying it runs on Linux would not.
Um, microsoft would not need a license to say that IIS supported PHP. I don't believe PHP is trademarked, but even if it were this would be the case. They couldn't make a product called PHP Server, but there's nothing wrong with saying IIS now supports PHP. They already have a product, and that's IIS, and IIS and PHP aren't even the same type of product (server vs scripting language).
Oh so sorry that I thought it was in the TOS instead of the EULA.
1) How do you know he used a bot? There's just an accusation.
2) The same TOS say that you're not allowed to sell any virtual property. So the 'victims' here did not lose anything of monetary value. To say they did would be to say the TOS is meaningless, thus making bot use irrelevant as well.
Amen brother. These things cannot be worth money, because once the game eventually shuts down what are the owners going to do with their virutal sword? Nothing. It's worthless.
Yes, but we've also seen things sold on ebay like "my eternal hatred - i promise to spend one hour a day thinking about how much i hate you."
Does my eternal hatred have any intrinsic value?
How about the older MMORPGs? How's the economy of everquest doing? What will happen when it shuts down? If the company pulling the plug on the game makes all the items worthless, then they never had any intrinsic value.
How can you say he deprived anyone of something of value? He rearranged a few bits in a database, in a game which allows player killing.
If the game server crashed and lost 3 days worth of data, could the players sue the game company for financial loss? That would have bankrupted Blizzard if the idea that you actually 'owned' these items were legally valid.
I don't believe you have any 'right' to your virutal items. They're bits on a server. You have a right to play your game, because you paid for it and agreed to a contract. The game company has a right to deny you the ability to play the game if you break that contract. At no point do you become liable to your fellow gamers just because you're playing this game.
How would you like to have another player accuse you of this? How do you know he commited fraud? How could you possibly prove your innocence? Just because another character kicked your butt, that doesn't mean that they're a bot. Are they going to bring in eyewitnesses? Examine server logs? This is freakin' retarded.
How much do you want?
The thing with those apps are that Apple is limited to selling them to 5% of the market. They've already spent the money developing them. They're planning on spending more upgrading them. They have no intention of porting them to windows. But, there are probably many people who would like to use them if they could run OSX on their existing hardware. Why is that a loss for Apple? Sell the OS, sell the apps to your new market, and the software sales section of their revenue sheet can't do anything but go up.
Fish genes. Look it up man. That's why there's google. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/genes/gm_genie/gm_sci ence/index.shtml/
And if you'd looked at the url I had there, you would have seen that Monsanto SUED someone because their neighbor's GM crops spread the genes into his crops - a clear example of contamination and the genes getting out into the wild. You think "oh, it's science, therefore it must be safe?" BS. When genetic engineering first started, tailored viruses were used to get the gene to the right place. Later on, in order to experiment faster, a physical method was developed to shove the genes in place. Quicker, but not as stable, the genes tend to migrate. Unfortunately that's what's been used in commercial GM crops. And, duh, this is from a scientist.
Post some links to back up your statement. I've always heard that the best for water runoff were, in order: 1) no-till farming, 2) organic farming, 3) conventional farming.
I haven't worked with it, but Zope (zope.org) is written in Python. You might be able to transition to it by putting whatever content management type stuff you have in there while figuring out how to do whatever it doesn't do in python yourself. There are a number of commerce modules for it, don't know how easy it would be to modify them rather than just doing it yourself. I'm sure there will be a bunch of code you do yourself, but no sense reinventing the wheel for basic website stuff.
But places like Jillian's and Dave & Busters are always busy. They're giant arcades with a bar and restaurant inside for anyone without one nearby.
There's also arcades at all the summer vacation places: theme parks, boardwalks, etc.
Dude, that's sick.
I can't wait for it.
There are many health issues related to farm raised meat. Here's one: 80% of antibiotics used in America are used on livestock. Do you really want to be consuming low levels of antibiotics on a constant basis? These are a definite contributor to anti-biotic resistant strains.
As far as organic vegetables, it's largely about the environmental impact, i.e. you don't get the huge nitrogen fertilizer run-off into the water supply. Also, you know that you're not eating genetically modified food. The genetically modified foods out today are pretty primitive and offer no benefits to those who eat them. The big example is the Roundup Ready varieties of plants. These have been modified for one purpose - to allow the plants to withstand huge amounts of pesticide sprayed on the crops. Do you think pesticides wash off? They can be found inside the plant up to several months after the application, since the plants just soaking up liquids.
Future gm crops get pretty weird, like putting fish 'antifreeze' genes in tomatoes to let them grow longer into the season. Good idea? Who knows? Will these genes spread into the weeds around the cropland, allowing them to become more noxious? Again, who knows? I do know the roundup ready genes have spread in the wild: Monsanto actually sued a GM-free farmer when his neighbor's GM crop contaminated his GM-free crop (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=1289).
There was actually a case of a vegan couple who almost killed their baby by trying to feed it some mixture of ground almonds and soy milk - because breast milk would have been 'exploiting animals' (http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/veg-parent/ 2003-May/000003.html).
Vegans, in my experience, are all extremists.
Hmm, I wonder if eating meat derived from your own tissue would have any special nutritional benefits since it would need minimal breakdown to be used by your body?
Did you read my post? I said she spent $5,000 of her OWN money to pay for studio time. Yeah, the album's raw sounding, and all the better for it. The studios are happy to let you run up a huge bill for weeks of studio time (at their studios) because that comes out of what would be paid to the artist, and is instead paid to their studio group, i.e. they get to keep most of it since the actual costs to them do not equal the charges to the musician.
So spammers have a 16% adoption rate of sender id, legit businesses have an 18% adoption rate. Doesn't look too successful yet.
Delete the studio techs from that list. With most major label contracts the band actually ends up paying for the studio time as it comes out of the profits from the album.
Which is why someone smart, like PJ Harvey, would take $5,000 of her own money and record cheaply, so she's not paying for a bunch of studio time out of the album's profits.