Provisional ballots are usually minimal ballots. In other words, yes, the people were able to vote, but were not able to vote for everything on the regular ballot (such as candidates running for office). Where I live, the provisional ballots will generally only have referendums on them.
I'm going to play devils advocate here and ask a simple question:
Who knows for sure that the amount of "global warming" that has been produced by man will exceed the climate change brought about by the cessation of the current interglacial period?
In other words, are we sure that we have caused so much "global warming" that it will completely offset the next ice age (which is now slightly overdue*) and turn the entire planet into a desert? It is entirely possible that our "interference" could actually be a boon for the ecology of the Earth by preventing the impending ice age from rendering the Earth uninhabitable.
* The next ice age is overdue based on the approximate calculations of how long interglacial periods normally last (about 10,000 years) and is entirely dependant upon orbital mechanics.
Oddly enough, if you go to MMORPG.COM's game list and sort it by ranking in descending order, you will find that World of Warcraft is ranked 13th! (The real kick in the face though is that Space Cowboy Online, which is a completely free MMO and has been out of beta for about 3 months, is ranked 11th.)
Of course, there is always the argument of the number of subscribers. But I'll use a quote from a movie to refute that: "People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference."
There are better MMOs out there. The quality is not rated by the number of lemmings they have. (Sidenote: MMO Lemmings!)
Well, putting aside arguments of "using the right tool for the job", you don't have to buy Visual Basic anymore. The 2005 Express editions of the Visual Studio tools are free (and not in the 30-day trial sense). Naturally there are some moderate restrictions such as not being able to use Visual SourceSafe with it or creating custom controls (which is easily worked around if you are worth your salt as a programmer), but you can develop applications with it that can be compiled and redistributed without royalty or licensing issues.
That said, Visual Basic would obviously be a poor choice for doing web mockups on Linux. A) Does not run on Linux (natively) B) Does not create web pages (except in the paid versions or the Web Developer Express package)
Actually, one of the main problems is what is actually expected of the network professionals hired. I used to work for a school district as the "Assistant District Technology Coordinator" (of course since there were only two people in the department, I was basically a systems tech/admin). The main qualification for the top position of "District Technology Coordinator" was that the person must be a certified educator (aka a teacher).
Granted that IT and education are not mutually exclusive, the problem exists that you need to find one who is both a teacher and a qualified systems administrator. The position is generally filled by someone who has tenure in the school district. I was hired because I worked closely with the prior "DTC" during my high school years. When she left, and a teacher was promoted to the position, I was called on as the only one who knew the systems. I can't complain though. I'm now a systems admin/programmer in the private sector without a degree. Actual work experience goes further than a sheet of paper. A sheet of paper does carry a bonus though... higher pay.
The quotes would surround the entire word (since adding "'s" to a word forms the possessive form of the word except with "its")
Therefore the correct sentence would be: Completely uninformed guess based on absolutely no fact: that epicenter of smugness known as The WELL is too cybercool to block some moldy "netizen's" Information Wants To Be Free open SMTP server.
Happy to oblige (even though they say, "Don't feed the trolls").
Since most players are unwilling to play more than one MMO on a regular basis, the trick is to entice players to leave WoW and play your game. The trick is to find the "hook" necessary to do just that. I would propose to offer a contest to give away free lifetime accounts to a significant number of people. By doing this, you can get an initial playerbase that can entice their friends to come to the new game. One of the biggest draws to MMOs (for me at least, although I'm not a WoW player) is the social environment from playing games with friends (whether in real-life, or just in-game).
Of course, the game does need to be worth playing in order to entice anyone away from another MMO
Theoretically speaking, the data should still be intact. The drive is just over a year old and may still be covered under Maxtor's warranty (I'm not too familiar with Maxtor's warranty policies). It should be as simple as replacing the control PCB (although I'd recommend it be done in a clean room just to be safe).
If you want a true example of a contribution, look at the Speech API or the Natural Language Processing group (to allow computers to understand things the way the humans do for interaction).
For the most part the research department of Microsoft functions independently from the corporate divisions.
I would much rather see the LBO firms tackle the wasteful spending of the US Government. Microsoft's software might be crap, but the research division of Microsoft is well worth the money spent.
Just because the US is the ONLY military superpower currently in existence, doesn't mean that it should be the "world police" force. We should be spending the defense budget on the defense of our country, not on forcefully installing puppet governments in previously sovereign nations. Every country deserves the right to rule itself. It would be a different story if the US was asked to defend a sovereign nation (as was done with Kuwait in "Desert Shield/Storm")
Sounds like you should look into Spring. It brings Total Annihilation up to modern standards.
True 3D environment, deformable terrain, Multiplayer internet lobby.
The internet lobby sets up games for you. It will ensure that you have the map and whatever mods required (which are all provided as downloads within the lobby).
As an added bonus, multiple players can control a single faction (i.e. one person can make sure things are being built while another fights the war.
You seem to have been raised in the IBM era of personal computers. There was a time (specifically in the Apple II days), when the only way to write to the second side of the floppy was to put a notch in the other side of the disk and flip it over. There were even special disk-punching tools to do this.
Unfortunately, near the end of the usable life of our Apple IIc, it was nearly impossible to find suitable floppies. They only 5 1/4" floppies readily available were high-density 1.2 MB floppies, which are very unreliable in a drive that doesn't know how to handle them.
(Useless trivia: Did you know that typing the command PR#7 on an Apple IIc would boot the second floppy drive?)
If overkill on media counts, I once bought a copy of the original EGA version of Lemmings. It came on a 5 1/4" CD. The data itself was a total of 512K. The game would have fit on a double-density 5 1/4" floppy.
Now if we are talking about shipping packages, I receive 1 or 2 floppy disks per month via overnight FedEx from one of our data vendors. It comes in a padded FedEx envelope stuffed in a small FedEx shipping box. The real kicker: The files on the disk are e-mailed to us as well. We have never used the content from the actual disks. I just peel off the labels and add them to a stack at my desk.
If you read my post and the reference, you will see that the Torque engine is now available from GarageGames for use within the XNA Game Studio. It is still a separate product. Can you provide any reference that says otherwise?
I am not criticising your reading ability. I am simply refuting your assertion that the Torque engine is included in XNA Game Studio. I have not found any evidence to support your assertion, but have found evidence to disprove your assertion.
Actually, you have that backwards. Torque runs on top of the XNA Framework.
XNA on the other hand is a games-oriented subset of the.NET framework (much like the Compact.NET Framework for mobile devices). This allows for code to be made that can run on both the x86 architecture and the XBox360's architecture (which unlike the original XBox is not x86).
There are plenty of other engines available that target.NET + Windows including some that are free (For a nice list, click here.) Targeting the XBox360 has a much smaller list, but this should bring some fresh talent to the table. Most future developers start with an interest in game development (which is ironic, since most games are far more complex than business apps).
Can you really reprioritize your packets coming from your desktop in such a way that you make a significant gain after it hits your ISP?
Yeah, technically if the packet is flagged with a higher priority CoS, and ALL of the equipment between hither and yon support CoS, it is possible.
After reading through the whitepaper, it seems this card is also able to flag INCOMING packets as well. If this were possible, it would CAUSE incredible amounts of lag for everything else waiting for packets (not to mention requiring a cache for all of the suspended packets it would have to set off to the side while waiting for the "preferred" packets to arrive). If I'm not mistaken packets still arrive one by one from the network.
You seem to be under the impression that there are actually decent individuals running for office. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that decent individuals try to avoid the inherent corruption that comes with elected offices.
Perhaps the time is near that our government won't be elected (be it via voluntary redesign, continued corruption, or revolution). With any luck, the change will occur in an orderly fashion without bloodshed, but I doubt the stalwarts are interested in such things.
I can vouch for the capability of Brother equipment. My wife and I work at a company, I have an Brother HL-1440 laser printer at my desk, while my wife has the Brother fax machine for the department at her disposal. Although it is not one of the MFC branded machines, it is connected to her computer providing both printing AND scanning (with an ADF to boot!)
I would describe my printing volume as moderate (and we are using the high-yield toner cartridges), but the "toner low" indicator has been blinking at me since January. If anything, the print has gotten slightly darker.
Unlike HP models, the toner and drum are sold separately, so costs are a little less than an all-in-one toner "module". A Brother laser printer will serve the printing needs of a small group very well.
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Provisional ballots are usually minimal ballots. In other words, yes, the people were able to vote, but were not able to vote for everything on the regular ballot (such as candidates running for office). Where I live, the provisional ballots will generally only have referendums on them.
I'm going to play devils advocate here and ask a simple question:
Who knows for sure that the amount of "global warming" that has been produced by man will exceed the climate change brought about by the cessation of the current interglacial period?
In other words, are we sure that we have caused so much "global warming" that it will completely offset the next ice age (which is now slightly overdue*) and turn the entire planet into a desert? It is entirely possible that our "interference" could actually be a boon for the ecology of the Earth by preventing the impending ice age from rendering the Earth uninhabitable.
* The next ice age is overdue based on the approximate calculations of how long interglacial periods normally last (about 10,000 years) and is entirely dependant upon orbital mechanics.
Oddly enough, if you go to MMORPG.COM's game list and sort it by ranking in descending order, you will find that World of Warcraft is ranked 13th! (The real kick in the face though is that Space Cowboy Online, which is a completely free MMO and has been out of beta for about 3 months, is ranked 11th.)
Of course, there is always the argument of the number of subscribers. But I'll use a quote from a movie to refute that: "People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference."
There are better MMOs out there. The quality is not rated by the number of lemmings they have. (Sidenote: MMO Lemmings!)
Well, putting aside arguments of "using the right tool for the job", you don't have to buy Visual Basic anymore. The 2005 Express editions of the Visual Studio tools are free (and not in the 30-day trial sense). Naturally there are some moderate restrictions such as not being able to use Visual SourceSafe with it or creating custom controls (which is easily worked around if you are worth your salt as a programmer), but you can develop applications with it that can be compiled and redistributed without royalty or licensing issues.
That said, Visual Basic would obviously be a poor choice for doing web mockups on Linux.
A) Does not run on Linux (natively)
B) Does not create web pages (except in the paid versions or the Web Developer Express package)
Actually, one of the main problems is what is actually expected of the network professionals hired. I used to work for a school district as the "Assistant District Technology Coordinator" (of course since there were only two people in the department, I was basically a systems tech/admin). The main qualification for the top position of "District Technology Coordinator" was that the person must be a certified educator (aka a teacher).
Granted that IT and education are not mutually exclusive, the problem exists that you need to find one who is both a teacher and a qualified systems administrator. The position is generally filled by someone who has tenure in the school district. I was hired because I worked closely with the prior "DTC" during my high school years. When she left, and a teacher was promoted to the position, I was called on as the only one who knew the systems. I can't complain though. I'm now a systems admin/programmer in the private sector without a degree. Actual work experience goes further than a sheet of paper. A sheet of paper does carry a bonus though... higher pay.
The quotes would surround the entire word (since adding "'s" to a word forms the possessive form of the word except with "its")
Therefore the correct sentence would be:
Completely uninformed guess based on absolutely no fact: that epicenter of smugness known as The WELL is too cybercool to block some moldy "netizen's" Information Wants To Be Free open SMTP server.
Happy to oblige (even though they say, "Don't feed the trolls").
Since most players are unwilling to play more than one MMO on a regular basis, the trick is to entice players to leave WoW and play your game. The trick is to find the "hook" necessary to do just that. I would propose to offer a contest to give away free lifetime accounts to a significant number of people. By doing this, you can get an initial playerbase that can entice their friends to come to the new game. One of the biggest draws to MMOs (for me at least, although I'm not a WoW player) is the social environment from playing games with friends (whether in real-life, or just in-game).
Of course, the game does need to be worth playing in order to entice anyone away from another MMO
Theoretically speaking, the data should still be intact. The drive is just over a year old and may still be covered under Maxtor's warranty (I'm not too familiar with Maxtor's warranty policies). It should be as simple as replacing the control PCB (although I'd recommend it be done in a clean room just to be safe).
I was referring to the ACTUAL research department at Microsoft, not the marketing and technology evangelist departments.
http://research.microsoft.com/
If you want a true example of a contribution, look at the Speech API or the Natural Language Processing group (to allow computers to understand things the way the humans do for interaction).
For the most part the research department of Microsoft functions independently from the corporate divisions.
I would much rather see the LBO firms tackle the wasteful spending of the US Government. Microsoft's software might be crap, but the research division of Microsoft is well worth the money spent.
Just because the US is the ONLY military superpower currently in existence, doesn't mean that it should be the "world police" force. We should be spending the defense budget on the defense of our country, not on forcefully installing puppet governments in previously sovereign nations. Every country deserves the right to rule itself. It would be a different story if the US was asked to defend a sovereign nation (as was done with Kuwait in "Desert Shield/Storm")
But I'm going off into a rant...
Sounds like you should look into Spring. It brings Total Annihilation up to modern standards.
True 3D environment, deformable terrain, Multiplayer internet lobby.
The internet lobby sets up games for you. It will ensure that you have the map and whatever mods required (which are all provided as downloads within the lobby).
As an added bonus, multiple players can control a single faction (i.e. one person can make sure things are being built while another fights the war.
Additionally, I imagine the music for the TV commercial:
Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time
You seem to have been raised in the IBM era of personal computers. There was a time (specifically in the Apple II days), when the only way to write to the second side of the floppy was to put a notch in the other side of the disk and flip it over. There were even special disk-punching tools to do this.
Unfortunately, near the end of the usable life of our Apple IIc, it was nearly impossible to find suitable floppies. They only 5 1/4" floppies readily available were high-density 1.2 MB floppies, which are very unreliable in a drive that doesn't know how to handle them.
(Useless trivia: Did you know that typing the command PR#7 on an Apple IIc would boot the second floppy drive?)
If overkill on media counts, I once bought a copy of the original EGA version of Lemmings. It came on a 5 1/4" CD. The data itself was a total of 512K. The game would have fit on a double -density 5 1/4" floppy.
Now if we are talking about shipping packages, I receive 1 or 2 floppy disks per month via overnight FedEx from one of our data vendors. It comes in a padded FedEx envelope stuffed in a small FedEx shipping box. The real kicker: The files on the disk are e-mailed to us as well. We have never used the content from the actual disks. I just peel off the labels and add them to a stack at my desk.
USB 2.0 is faster than FireWire 400 (which is generally used for DV content), so I'd say that it is fast enough.
Of course, it all depends on how fast the data needs to be consumed. I don't know if it would be fast enough for high-definition content.
If you read my post and the reference, you will see that the Torque engine is now available from GarageGames for use within the XNA Game Studio. It is still a separate product. Can you provide any reference that says otherwise?
I am not criticising your reading ability. I am simply refuting your assertion that the Torque engine is included in XNA Game Studio. I have not found any evidence to support your assertion, but have found evidence to disprove your assertion.
If you read the article a little closer, you will see that GarageGames has made a version of Torque that is compatible with XNA Game Studio.
Please see this reference for details: GarageGames Announces Torque X For XNA
Actually, you have that backwards. Torque runs on top of the XNA Framework.
.NET framework (much like the Compact .NET Framework for mobile devices). This allows for code to be made that can run on both the x86 architecture and the XBox360's architecture (which unlike the original XBox is not x86).
.NET + Windows including some that are free (For a nice list, click here.) Targeting the XBox360 has a much smaller list, but this should bring some fresh talent to the table. Most future developers start with an interest in game development (which is ironic, since most games are far more complex than business apps).
XNA on the other hand is a games-oriented subset of the
There are plenty of other engines available that target
Exactly!
Am I the only one who thought, "Won't someone think of Pinocchio?!"
You're assuming that cinder blocks float... They don't.
Good joke though.
No, magic packets are something else entirely. Magic packets are used to activate the Wake-on-LAN feature of some network cards.
Oh wait... You're talking about some OTHER type of magic packet. My bad.
BTW, is there actually a practical use for Wake-on-LAN (i.e. a real-world scenario for it)
I think my signature ponders a question similar to that... Maybe there won't be lightsaber dueling, but just lightsaber versus everything else.
Can you really reprioritize your packets coming from your desktop in such a way that you make a significant gain after it hits your ISP?
Yeah, technically if the packet is flagged with a higher priority CoS, and ALL of the equipment between hither and yon support CoS, it is possible.
After reading through the whitepaper, it seems this card is also able to flag INCOMING packets as well. If this were possible, it would CAUSE incredible amounts of lag for everything else waiting for packets (not to mention requiring a cache for all of the suspended packets it would have to set off to the side while waiting for the "preferred" packets to arrive). If I'm not mistaken packets still arrive one by one from the network.
You seem to be under the impression that there are actually decent individuals running for office. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that decent individuals try to avoid the inherent corruption that comes with elected offices.
Perhaps the time is near that our government won't be elected (be it via voluntary redesign, continued corruption, or revolution). With any luck, the change will occur in an orderly fashion without bloodshed, but I doubt the stalwarts are interested in such things.
I can vouch for the capability of Brother equipment. My wife and I work at a company, I have an Brother HL-1440 laser printer at my desk, while my wife has the Brother fax machine for the department at her disposal. Although it is not one of the MFC branded machines, it is connected to her computer providing both printing AND scanning (with an ADF to boot!)
I would describe my printing volume as moderate (and we are using the high-yield toner cartridges), but the "toner low" indicator has been blinking at me since January. If anything, the print has gotten slightly darker.
Unlike HP models, the toner and drum are sold separately, so costs are a little less than an all-in-one toner "module". A Brother laser printer will serve the printing needs of a small group very well.