You ARE detracting from Mr. Ritchie with your asinine commentary and total disrespect for individual accomplishment.
MAYBE someone else would have come up with something similar by now but maybe it would have taken another 50 years and we'd be way behind the curve right now. MAYBE, if something similar had been developed around the same time, it would be locked up in a bottle and unavailable to the masses. Stagnation would have been wholly possible alternative reality.
I shouldn't pick on Gartner...several Microsoft spokesmen have also had quite a bit of trouble understanding their own EULAs.
The virtulization sections seem quite clear, however.
This was clarified several weeks ago.....and is actually pretty clear in the EULA.
Let me summarize at the beginning: MS is giving us MORE freedom than we legally had in the past. With Vista Business and Ultimate, you may install a SINGLE license on both the host and on a VM running on that host. With the Home versions, you may not use a single license more than once. You CAN buy two copies of Vista Home and install one license on the host and another within a VM running on that host.
Currently, with Windows XP Pro, you do NOT have the right to use a single license on the host and within a VM.
*********** Windows Vista Home Basic/Vista Home Premium
4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system. ***********
The above states that you may NOT use the same license within the VM that is in use on the host. You are perfectly free to buy a copy of Vista Home Basic and install it within a VM running within a seperately licensed copy of Vista (or within a VM hosted on XP, 2000, 98, Linux, OS X, et cetera.)
*********** Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
6. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If
you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital,
information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management
services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or using applications
protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other rights
management services or using full volume disk drive encryption.
*********
The above actually says that you may use ONE license of Ultimate on both the host and within the VM on that host. This gives you and I MORE freedom than we had under previous MS licensing terms. I cannot find it at the moment, but, I seem to recall that MS actually intends to allow us to run one license on the host and on up to four VMs within that host, simultaneously.
********* Windows Vista Business (Essentially the same as Ultimate)
f. Use with Virtualization Technologies. You may use the software installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system. If you do so,
you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital,
information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights
management services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content
or using applications protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights
management technology or other rights management services or using full volume disk
drive encryption. *********
When I took a photo of a single bunny behind my house, the picture showed 1,072 bunnies!!
When I took a photo of a single cherry tree in a prairie field, a forest appeared.
Can someone please tell me how to adjust my Al Reuter's setting to more closely mirror reality? It seems my current digital "film" development settings are a bit liberal.
http://www.in.gov/biotownusa/http://www.intakeweekly.com/articles/5/024302-8225 -160.html
Reynolds, IN, population 600 is to have all of its energy supplied by biorenewable sources.
I hope these folks are not too shocked as they discover that they will get worse fuel mileage with E85. Many of them appear to believe they will get better mileage and save money.
Mitch seems to be pumping quite a bit of cash into Biotown. Maybe he could funnel some of this back into the local school system instead of cutting it's funds. I mean, I know the local district is being wasteful by having three elementary schools with just over 400 kids total...but he can pay for that right? Or, he could do the smart thing and pay to combine the three schools into one and get them back to focusing on education.
With a poor local educational system, Biotown will fail.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line...
Would someone explain to me how light reflected by a 160,000 light year distant gas cloud reached Earth in less than 600 years?
Physically assaulting someone is not censorship. Assault is illegal on its own. On the other hand, actions often have consequences. If you judge that the risk to yourself is minimal, by all means, say something stupid.
On your complaints about cursing and breasts: right, we should be more like Europe where everything goes, including pedophilia.
Actually, many folks (mostly liberals) mistake private censorship for a violation of free speech. Free speech, as detailed in the U.S. Constitution, guarantees freedom from GOVERNMENT censorship. I, as a private citizen, have the right to not buy Dixie Chick CDs because of their idiotic statements. And radio stations, as privately owned entities, have the right to NOT play music that offends their listeners. Yet, the Dixie Chicks, and many liberals called both of the above violations of free speech. This is only one example among hundreds.
Also, shouldn't some information be delayed? Like military operations? I am against censoring these stories, however, the government personnel that leak compromising information should be treated as what they are: traitors. And reporters should be punished for receiving illegal information. Is it legal for me to jot down your credit card number while you pee at the restaraunt and order a new TV with a VCHIP? If you work for Airbus and steal the plans for the A380 and give them to me, is it legal for me to post them on the Internet? And they should be executed. And, soldiers should not be guarding non-combat reporters. When the unaccompanied reporters get shot by badguys OR FF, they and their families and colleagues should STFU. Any moron knows there is a high likelihood of getting his ass shot off in a war zone.
BTW, which government office is causing the U.S. media conglomerate to spew liberal bullshit 24x7 despite the ruling conservative party? I think Bush better get to firing some folks in that office.
Now, does the government restrict obscenity on the airwaves? Yes. Is this arguable? Yes, I suppose it is as it requires a venture into morality which everyone has a different view of. I will argue for this censorship on any broadcast transmission. Cable should be good to go...though, I am still waiting for the liberals to give me two add-on VCHIP boxes for my televisions. When my son was about two years old, he woke up one morning at about 10 till 5. I brought him back to my room and fired up the TV so he could watch Clifford or such on PBS at 5. An immediate slew of profanity emerged from the television including f*ck several times. It was the end of some gay and lesbian show on broadcast PBS. This type of thing is outrageous on broadcast television. I am sure whatever program that was is shown daily in California and Massachussets schools, but, I live in the midwest and we don't bend that way...yet.
The Internet was invented by the U.S. military. We can and should have control of it. Let them split and burn like the original poster said. I have had enough of European stupidity in my life. My only hope is that the Democrats here keep acting like Europeans...they will kill off the Democratic party.
I never trust anyone that claims to be neutral. On the other hand, I never trust anyone who believes one thing but opposes that belief in the interest of fairness or to appear neutral. There must be a psychological term for this.
In a sort of related matter: Then again, this always gives me problems when major jury trials come up. I mean, if, for example, they found 12 nimwits for the OJ trial that had NOT heard anything about the case...is this trial by peers?? WTF? Seriously...what did they do?
911: "Nicole is dead?" Caller: "Yes!!! OJ did it!" 911: "OMGWTF! Please hold." 911 to County Clerk: "I need you to transmit a list of 144 eligible jurors immediately. Thank you." 911 to SWAT: "Sir, I am transmitting a list of potential jurors to your computer now. Please pickup these people immediately and lock them in sealed rooms. Report back to me when it is done." SWAT: "Yes Ma'am!" 911 to caller: "Sir, what genre of music would you like to continue holding to? Pop and Hip Hop require that I play a 23 minute public service ad from the RIAA." Caller: "OMG WTF!!! Are you sending the fuzz and the medics?!?!" 911: "I am not familiar with that genre. Oh, and yes, they will be on their way shortly. Please hold and enjoy Beetoven's 9th, courtesy of the BBC."...57 minutes later... SWAT to 911: "Ma'am, we have 144 potential jurors in custody...wait, make that 142...my men flashbanged one to death and the other got sniped. Oh, and we need the coroner at 1501 W. State St. Twelve of my men flashed the place, took out the front door with a DAO-12 shotgun and...and, uh, there were 4 old people in there. They don't look so good." 911: "That will be fine! Thank you! Oh, and I am showing a memo from last month that says a deputy coroner was assigned to your squad." 911 to caller: "Sir, we have....actually, they tell me they are at the scene now. Hello? Hello? Sir?" Ferman: "Who is this?" 911: "This is 911. You aren't the man that called. Who is this?" Ferman: "This is Detective Ferman. It appears that OJ killed the caller too." 911: "How did you know it was OJ then?" Ferman: "Oh...ummmm...ummm. I don't know, but it has NOTHING to do with the dinner I had with Nicole a few nights ago nor with the evidence I have planted!"
Bullshit. (I know this is a minor reason. The ipso facto MAIN reason is to prevent robbery.) The thing is, when you have $4,000 cash in the drawer, you can make $96 in change. If you were ACTUALLY doing the drops you are supposed to do, this would be legitimate. However, in my experience, 99.9% of you ARE NOT making the drops, so, STFU and make the change...and have your baseball bat ready to "foil" the robber. And, by the way, having only $20 change in the draweer AS YOU should IS a legitimate reason for NOT accepting large bills. If I buy $10 of gas and you REALLY don't have change for my $50, you can keep the tip...trust me, my $40 is SAFE.
As I said before, the owner, management, and staff are too fracking lazy/stupid to follow best practices. So, what does the public get? Fracking laziness from the imbeciles at the establishment.
What is wrong with you? Your post under anonymous coward is fitting. What is your problem with someone doing something that they have a legal right to do?? Everyone else, the average dipshit such as yourself, is either to stupid, to ignorant, or just an asshole and tries to make their own selfish lives easier by trampling on someone else's rights.
If fricking gas stations weren't owned by morons, managed by morons, and staffed by morons, there would be no problem with accepting $50 or $100 bills. Ever hear of a timed drop safe? Every retail establishment should have one and any large bills and drawer cash totalling over $100 should go in it frequently. (Large bills immediately.) I am sick and tired of walking in to some loser fracking crap hole gas station and getting crap about paying for $27 of gas with a $50. Meanwhile, I notice when they open the cash drawer that they must not have been to the bank or used a safe all week...seriously...must have been $3,000 or $4,000 in that drawer. Same thing at numerous restaurants and other establishments in the area. They are going to get robbed because someone CAN SEE $4,000 in their drawer, not because they accept $50 bills that should immediately be placed in a whole in the floor.
The business owners and managers whom refuse to install and maintain this equipment should be sued out of existance by anyone that is robbed. Most retail businesses require some type of timed drop safe and frequent skimming. However, in most cases, the timer is broken, the lock doesn't work, and employees are bitched out for wasting time to skim the tills. If you are smart enough to know what bullshit this is, move on--get out of that shithole. If not, at least wisen up to the existance and legality of $2, $50, and $100 bills and STFU.
Legal tender is LEGAL TENDER. My congrats to the gentleman in Michigan. I am looking for a similar law in Indiana now. In fact, this should be a federal law. At the very least, if they refuse my $50, they'll be taking a $20 deduction for the time it takes me to go get them "small bills" or waiting until the next time I stop by their establishment (6 months after an incident of this sort) to get their payment.
I'd love to have the local dumbshit donut chomper throw me to the ground over a $2, $50, or $100 bill. I am highly confident I can unload his weapon and kick his ass before the county mounties show up. Then, when they show up, break a few bones and such...I'll enjoy living in my brand new home in the next county over (to avoid the new, excessive property taxes in the prior county.) What?? You don't like me for raising your property taxes?? Why don't you pay more attention to the dumbshits working for you? Like school employees embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars, county and city cops barely smart enough to flip burgers, et cetera.
Get a grip and be glad SOMEONE is out there defending the rights of lazy asses such as yourself.
DISCLAIMER: I live in a small town...where things are supposed to be rosy and sweet. In fact, quite the opposite. No business or government employee believes in service. If you don't like the $20 burnt or half cooked pizza, you can shove it...go to Pizza Hut 25 miles over. If you don't like the phone service, go somehwere else they say...there is no one else. Thank God Comcast came here. They have already taken most of the phone companies Internet business (only ISP before now) and if VOIP takes off, these morons are done.
I'll top you. I am set to be rich. If the City of Chicago can claim copyright on pictures of a PUBLIC park, then, I am very thankful for the explosion of Geographic Information Systems. I can surely claim copyright on private property. I am suing the city, county, state, and federal governments for royalties on every aerial photograph that contains my back yard. You see, I claim copyright on my lawn mowing pattern. Every time someone plots out my parcel, I want $3 for 8 1/2" x 11", $5 for 11" x 17", $25 for anything larger. The paper must contain copy protection (a pattern must be inserted on the page that renders any photocopy or photograph with nothing but a huge goatse, after 5 seconds, the original bursts into flames) or the fee is 10 times as much. All of this is regardless of scale.
For digital media, the fee is $250 per disk that contains my lawn mowing pattern. The disk must possess the latest in copy protection or the fee is 10 times as much. The disk should detect unauthorized copying and destroy itself and the equipment it is loaded in...after transferring all funds out of the perpetrators account in to mine.
Until this matter is resolved, my entire two parcels have been covered with camouflage netting and a cardboard M1A1 Abrams tank has been installed.
Perhaps to avoid suddenly and swiftly having to fork out $20,000 for CAD licensing unexpectedly (better than a $250,000 per seat fine though, eh?)
Perhaps to avoid finding out that secretary #7 has been using some junky 1987 word processor to type all of her documents for the last three years. Did I mention that the file format might as well be called an encryption format? Did I mention that she ran this from a floppy which she took with her when she quit? Another document format problem occurs with several offices that thought $39.95 for MS Works 4.5 was just to good of a deal to pass up!
I could give another dozen good reasons, but, I am hungry and have some licensing issues to sort out.
Go back to watching your Hollywood movies and leave us in peace. If you think it is wiser to spend billions on Hollywood junk (yes, most of it IS junk) than on real science then have the UN start paying Hollywood's fees after we withdraw. And move Hollywood and the UN to Paris.
If you are an American, I hear there is a group helping folks like you pay for a bus ticket to Montreal. Then, you can go up there and live off of American third world welfare, American defenses, pay all of your taxes into a system that allows you to wait in line for months for second rate emergency medical care, AND, claim to have invented all kinds of cool things without spending any Canadian dough on real research.
That sounds great Solstice. Almost exactly along the lines of what I have been thinking of putting together. I was considering using an nForce2 IGP board and a PVR 350 though. I may just shoot for your system since it works well for you!
And yes, you must keep her happy. My wife glared at me when I spoke of building this. Too much!! She was drooling after I told her what it would do...for her soap operas.
Thank you.
My boy started using his computer when he was one and he has gotten along with it quite well. Beyond the myriad of settings in Serious Sam 2, he has never messed it up. Well, when he was five, he slammed the mouse down after getting "owned." After a two week hiatus from the PC, he had learned a bit of anger management.:-)
I am much more worried about locking the PCs at work down than the PCs in my house. Those "kids" are truly dangerous.
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You ARE detracting from Mr. Ritchie with your asinine commentary and total disrespect for individual accomplishment. MAYBE someone else would have come up with something similar by now but maybe it would have taken another 50 years and we'd be way behind the curve right now. MAYBE, if something similar had been developed around the same time, it would be locked up in a bottle and unavailable to the masses. Stagnation would have been wholly possible alternative reality.
I shouldn't pick on Gartner...several Microsoft spokesmen have also had quite a bit of trouble understanding their own EULAs. The virtulization sections seem quite clear, however.
This was clarified several weeks ago.....and is actually pretty clear in the EULA.
Let me summarize at the beginning: MS is giving us MORE freedom than we legally had in the past. With Vista Business and Ultimate, you may install a SINGLE license on both the host and on a VM running on that host. With the Home versions, you may not use a single license more than once. You CAN buy two copies of Vista Home and install one license on the host and another within a VM running on that host.
Currently, with Windows XP Pro, you do NOT have the right to use a single license on the host and within a VM.
***********
Windows Vista Home Basic/Vista Home Premium
4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.
***********
The above states that you may NOT use the same license within the VM that is in use on the host. You are perfectly free to buy a copy of Vista Home Basic and install it within a VM running within a seperately licensed copy of Vista (or within a VM hosted on XP, 2000, 98, Linux, OS X, et cetera.)
***********
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
6. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If
you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital,
information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management
services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or using applications
protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other rights
management services or using full volume disk drive encryption.
*********
The above actually says that you may use ONE license of Ultimate on both the host and within the VM on that host. This gives you and I MORE freedom than we had under previous MS licensing terms. I cannot find it at the moment, but, I seem to recall that MS actually intends to allow us to run one license on the host and on up to four VMs within that host, simultaneously.
*********
Windows Vista Business (Essentially the same as Ultimate)
f. Use with Virtualization Technologies. You may use the software installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system. If you do so,
you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital,
information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights
management services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content
or using applications protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights
management technology or other rights management services or using full volume disk
drive encryption.
*********
Maybe that's because the Statue of Liberty and Empire State building are not in Indiana (yet.)
Damn! Now I know what I have been doing wrong.
When I took a photo of a single bunny behind my house, the picture showed 1,072 bunnies!!
When I took a photo of a single cherry tree in a prairie field, a forest appeared.
Can someone please tell me how to adjust my Al Reuter's setting to more closely mirror reality? It seems my current digital "film" development settings are a bit liberal.
http://www.in.gov/biotownusa/ http://www.intakeweekly.com/articles/5/024302-8225 -160.html
Reynolds, IN, population 600 is to have all of its energy supplied by biorenewable sources.
I hope these folks are not too shocked as they discover that they will get worse fuel mileage with E85. Many of them appear to believe they will get better mileage and save money.
Mitch seems to be pumping quite a bit of cash into Biotown. Maybe he could funnel some of this back into the local school system instead of cutting it's funds. I mean, I know the local district is being wasteful by having three elementary schools with just over 400 kids total...but he can pay for that right? Or, he could do the smart thing and pay to combine the three schools into one and get them back to focusing on education.
With a poor local educational system, Biotown will fail.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line... Would someone explain to me how light reflected by a 160,000 light year distant gas cloud reached Earth in less than 600 years?
Physically assaulting someone is not censorship. Assault is illegal on its own. On the other hand, actions often have consequences. If you judge that the risk to yourself is minimal, by all means, say something stupid. On your complaints about cursing and breasts: right, we should be more like Europe where everything goes, including pedophilia.
Actually, many folks (mostly liberals) mistake private censorship for a violation of free speech. Free speech, as detailed in the U.S. Constitution, guarantees freedom from GOVERNMENT censorship. I, as a private citizen, have the right to not buy Dixie Chick CDs because of their idiotic statements. And radio stations, as privately owned entities, have the right to NOT play music that offends their listeners. Yet, the Dixie Chicks, and many liberals called both of the above violations of free speech. This is only one example among hundreds. Also, shouldn't some information be delayed? Like military operations? I am against censoring these stories, however, the government personnel that leak compromising information should be treated as what they are: traitors. And reporters should be punished for receiving illegal information. Is it legal for me to jot down your credit card number while you pee at the restaraunt and order a new TV with a VCHIP? If you work for Airbus and steal the plans for the A380 and give them to me, is it legal for me to post them on the Internet? And they should be executed. And, soldiers should not be guarding non-combat reporters. When the unaccompanied reporters get shot by badguys OR FF, they and their families and colleagues should STFU. Any moron knows there is a high likelihood of getting his ass shot off in a war zone. BTW, which government office is causing the U.S. media conglomerate to spew liberal bullshit 24x7 despite the ruling conservative party? I think Bush better get to firing some folks in that office. Now, does the government restrict obscenity on the airwaves? Yes. Is this arguable? Yes, I suppose it is as it requires a venture into morality which everyone has a different view of. I will argue for this censorship on any broadcast transmission. Cable should be good to go...though, I am still waiting for the liberals to give me two add-on VCHIP boxes for my televisions. When my son was about two years old, he woke up one morning at about 10 till 5. I brought him back to my room and fired up the TV so he could watch Clifford or such on PBS at 5. An immediate slew of profanity emerged from the television including f*ck several times. It was the end of some gay and lesbian show on broadcast PBS. This type of thing is outrageous on broadcast television. I am sure whatever program that was is shown daily in California and Massachussets schools, but, I live in the midwest and we don't bend that way...yet.
The Internet was invented by the U.S. military. We can and should have control of it. Let them split and burn like the original poster said. I have had enough of European stupidity in my life. My only hope is that the Democrats here keep acting like Europeans...they will kill off the Democratic party.
...57 minutes later...
I never trust anyone that claims to be neutral. On the other hand, I never trust anyone who believes one thing but opposes that belief in the interest of fairness or to appear neutral. There must be a psychological term for this.
In a sort of related matter:
Then again, this always gives me problems when major jury trials come up. I mean, if, for example, they found 12 nimwits for the OJ trial that had NOT heard anything about the case...is this trial by peers?? WTF? Seriously...what did they do?
911: "Nicole is dead?"
Caller: "Yes!!! OJ did it!"
911: "OMGWTF! Please hold."
911 to County Clerk: "I need you to transmit a list of 144 eligible jurors immediately. Thank you."
911 to SWAT: "Sir, I am transmitting a list of potential jurors to your computer now. Please pickup these people immediately and lock them in sealed rooms. Report back to me when it is done."
SWAT: "Yes Ma'am!"
911 to caller: "Sir, what genre of music would you like to continue holding to? Pop and Hip Hop require that I play a 23 minute public service ad from the RIAA."
Caller: "OMG WTF!!! Are you sending the fuzz and the medics?!?!"
911: "I am not familiar with that genre. Oh, and yes, they will be on their way shortly. Please hold and enjoy Beetoven's 9th, courtesy of the BBC."
SWAT to 911: "Ma'am, we have 144 potential jurors in custody...wait, make that 142...my men flashbanged one to death and the other got sniped. Oh, and we need the coroner at 1501 W. State St. Twelve of my men flashed the place, took out the front door with a DAO-12 shotgun and...and, uh, there were 4 old people in there. They don't look so good."
911: "That will be fine! Thank you! Oh, and I am showing a memo from last month that says a deputy coroner was assigned to your squad."
911 to caller: "Sir, we have....actually, they tell me they are at the scene now. Hello? Hello? Sir?"
Ferman: "Who is this?"
911: "This is 911. You aren't the man that called. Who is this?"
Ferman: "This is Detective Ferman. It appears that OJ killed the caller too."
911: "How did you know it was OJ then?"
Ferman: "Oh...ummmm...ummm. I don't know, but it has NOTHING to do with the dinner I had with Nicole a few nights ago nor with the evidence I have planted!"
WTF
Bullshit. (I know this is a minor reason. The ipso facto MAIN reason is to prevent robbery.) The thing is, when you have $4,000 cash in the drawer, you can make $96 in change. If you were ACTUALLY doing the drops you are supposed to do, this would be legitimate. However, in my experience, 99.9% of you ARE NOT making the drops, so, STFU and make the change...and have your baseball bat ready to "foil" the robber. And, by the way, having only $20 change in the draweer AS YOU should IS a legitimate reason for NOT accepting large bills. If I buy $10 of gas and you REALLY don't have change for my $50, you can keep the tip...trust me, my $40 is SAFE. As I said before, the owner, management, and staff are too fracking lazy/stupid to follow best practices. So, what does the public get? Fracking laziness from the imbeciles at the establishment.
What is wrong with you? Your post under anonymous coward is fitting. What is your problem with someone doing something that they have a legal right to do?? Everyone else, the average dipshit such as yourself, is either to stupid, to ignorant, or just an asshole and tries to make their own selfish lives easier by trampling on someone else's rights.
If fricking gas stations weren't owned by morons, managed by morons, and staffed by morons, there would be no problem with accepting $50 or $100 bills. Ever hear of a timed drop safe? Every retail establishment should have one and any large bills and drawer cash totalling over $100 should go in it frequently. (Large bills immediately.) I am sick and tired of walking in to some loser fracking crap hole gas station and getting crap about paying for $27 of gas with a $50. Meanwhile, I notice when they open the cash drawer that they must not have been to the bank or used a safe all week...seriously...must have been $3,000 or $4,000 in that drawer. Same thing at numerous restaurants and other establishments in the area. They are going to get robbed because someone CAN SEE $4,000 in their drawer, not because they accept $50 bills that should immediately be placed in a whole in the floor.
The business owners and managers whom refuse to install and maintain this equipment should be sued out of existance by anyone that is robbed. Most retail businesses require some type of timed drop safe and frequent skimming. However, in most cases, the timer is broken, the lock doesn't work, and employees are bitched out for wasting time to skim the tills. If you are smart enough to know what bullshit this is, move on--get out of that shithole. If not, at least wisen up to the existance and legality of $2, $50, and $100 bills and STFU.
Legal tender is LEGAL TENDER. My congrats to the gentleman in Michigan. I am looking for a similar law in Indiana now. In fact, this should be a federal law. At the very least, if they refuse my $50, they'll be taking a $20 deduction for the time it takes me to go get them "small bills" or waiting until the next time I stop by their establishment (6 months after an incident of this sort) to get their payment.
I'd love to have the local dumbshit donut chomper throw me to the ground over a $2, $50, or $100 bill. I am highly confident I can unload his weapon and kick his ass before the county mounties show up. Then, when they show up, break a few bones and such...I'll enjoy living in my brand new home in the next county over (to avoid the new, excessive property taxes in the prior county.) What?? You don't like me for raising your property taxes?? Why don't you pay more attention to the dumbshits working for you? Like school employees embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars, county and city cops barely smart enough to flip burgers, et cetera.
Get a grip and be glad SOMEONE is out there defending the rights of lazy asses such as yourself.
DISCLAIMER: I live in a small town...where things are supposed to be rosy and sweet. In fact, quite the opposite. No business or government employee believes in service. If you don't like the $20 burnt or half cooked pizza, you can shove it...go to Pizza Hut 25 miles over. If you don't like the phone service, go somehwere else they say...there is no one else. Thank God Comcast came here. They have already taken most of the phone companies Internet business (only ISP before now) and if VOIP takes off, these morons are done.
Have a nice day.
I'll top you. I am set to be rich. If the City of Chicago can claim copyright on pictures of a PUBLIC park, then, I am very thankful for the explosion of Geographic Information Systems. I can surely claim copyright on private property. I am suing the city, county, state, and federal governments for royalties on every aerial photograph that contains my back yard. You see, I claim copyright on my lawn mowing pattern. Every time someone plots out my parcel, I want $3 for 8 1/2" x 11", $5 for 11" x 17", $25 for anything larger. The paper must contain copy protection (a pattern must be inserted on the page that renders any photocopy or photograph with nothing but a huge goatse, after 5 seconds, the original bursts into flames) or the fee is 10 times as much. All of this is regardless of scale.
For digital media, the fee is $250 per disk that contains my lawn mowing pattern. The disk must possess the latest in copy protection or the fee is 10 times as much. The disk should detect unauthorized copying and destroy itself and the equipment it is loaded in...after transferring all funds out of the perpetrators account in to mine.
Until this matter is resolved, my entire two parcels have been covered with camouflage netting and a cardboard M1A1 Abrams tank has been installed.
Perhaps to avoid suddenly and swiftly having to fork out $20,000 for CAD licensing unexpectedly (better than a $250,000 per seat fine though, eh?) Perhaps to avoid finding out that secretary #7 has been using some junky 1987 word processor to type all of her documents for the last three years. Did I mention that the file format might as well be called an encryption format? Did I mention that she ran this from a floppy which she took with her when she quit? Another document format problem occurs with several offices that thought $39.95 for MS Works 4.5 was just to good of a deal to pass up! I could give another dozen good reasons, but, I am hungry and have some licensing issues to sort out.
Go back to watching your Hollywood movies and leave us in peace. If you think it is wiser to spend billions on Hollywood junk (yes, most of it IS junk) than on real science then have the UN start paying Hollywood's fees after we withdraw. And move Hollywood and the UN to Paris. If you are an American, I hear there is a group helping folks like you pay for a bus ticket to Montreal. Then, you can go up there and live off of American third world welfare, American defenses, pay all of your taxes into a system that allows you to wait in line for months for second rate emergency medical care, AND, claim to have invented all kinds of cool things without spending any Canadian dough on real research.
That sounds great Solstice. Almost exactly along the lines of what I have been thinking of putting together. I was considering using an nForce2 IGP board and a PVR 350 though. I may just shoot for your system since it works well for you! And yes, you must keep her happy. My wife glared at me when I spoke of building this. Too much!! She was drooling after I told her what it would do...for her soap operas. Thank you.
Would you post your system specifications? I merely watch a couple of hours per week, but, I want to be prepared for the big one.
My boy started using his computer when he was one and he has gotten along with it quite well. Beyond the myriad of settings in Serious Sam 2, he has never messed it up. Well, when he was five, he slammed the mouse down after getting "owned." After a two week hiatus from the PC, he had learned a bit of anger management. :-)
I am much more worried about locking the PCs at work down than the PCs in my house. Those "kids" are truly dangerous.