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  1. Cordwainer Smith on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith

    Great if you like weird science fiction.

    Also:
    Edmond Hamilton
    Stanley G. Weinbaum
    Henry Kuttner
    Leigh Brackett

    Last would suggest, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame compliations give you a nice selection of works from 1929 to 1969 (if you can find volume 3)
    Volumes 1, 2a and 2b have been reprinted fairly recently.

  2. Re:New Product on Sony Shutting Down Star Wars Galaxies MMO and TCG · · Score: 2

    Star Wars Old Republic from Bioware

    http://www.swtor.com/

  3. Re:I dont get this drupal pushing on Drupal 6: Panels Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. The D6 documentation has been there much longer. Drupal 7 was only officially released on January 7th, so I suspect that the documentation wasn't updated before that.

  4. Re:I dont get this drupal pushing on Drupal 6: Panels Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I always found the forms API pretty well documented.
    http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html

  5. Re:I dont get this drupal pushing on Drupal 6: Panels Cookbook · · Score: 2

    Custom Content Types (CCK) and Webforms handle most of those use cases without creating a module.

  6. Re:I dont get this drupal pushing on Drupal 6: Panels Cookbook · · Score: 1

    And even if you are talking about custom forms build through the API (well documented through api.drupal.org) there is a module (in dev) called Form Builder that provides a graphical UI that helps you build them.

  7. Re:I dont get this drupal pushing on Drupal 6: Panels Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Drupal 7 adds the ability to specify a compressed module file to load, either from a url or by browsing locally, and install it from the Admin interface. Also your can do one click updates on modules.

    D7 has made a significant effort to providing a more friendly Administration UI experience, while maintaining (and adding) alot of awesomeness under the hood.

  8. Right now about 50/50 on eBooks - What's Holding You Back? · · Score: 1

    Read all the System of the World on my Palm, don't own physical copies.

    When we went on vacation we both took our Palms with several books on them.

    Still buy some core technical books hardcover but for others use my libraries' 30,000 ebook collection for spot reference.

    Still buy some magazines hardcopy, but core news et.al. done online.

    But still looking for THE killer reading device (good resolution in sunlight, long battery life, wide availability of material).

  9. It's so tiny!!! on What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? · · Score: 1

    40 mb limit for sysadmin whine message
    50 mb limit for sorry you can't send email until you shed some messages

    weekly automatic clean up of older mail messages (inbox and sent items) [currently deleting messages from december/beginning of January]

    I am always cruising the limit. At one time had set up a .pst to dump overflow until it used up all my personal drive space on the server.

  10. Re:When Mathmeticians Lose Touch with Reality on Making Change · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's why we are decriminalizing pot, so those Math Profs don't have to suffer the stigma of criminal records!!

  11. There is at least one site related to this topic on How Much are Tongues Worth? · · Score: 1

    http://www.lawref.net/levy/01a.html

    and This from a discussion group.

    Re: NUMBNESS OF THE TONGUE
    From: Dr. Tim Hart

    Your dentist may have used an anesthetic called "articaine". While this anesthetic is extremely effective for infiltration injections, it is a bit risky for block anesthesia (i.e. lower injections for molars). Your prolonged anesthesia should, "eventually", disappear.

    Standard Not a Doctor or Lawyer Disclaimer, so take above with a big grain of salt.

  12. Re:Who owns what? on Neverwinter Nights is Gold · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is the latest post on the Bioware Forums:

    "I believe that the EULA has changed. Due to legal reasons (as none of us are lawyers here) we still can't comment on the EULA. Ever.

    _________________
    Derek French
    Producer, Live Team
    Neverwinter Nights"

  13. Re:NWN EULA on Neverwinter Nights is Gold · · Score: 1

    This from Derek French on the Bioware Forums

    "I believe that the EULA has changed. Due to legal reasons (as none of us are lawyers here) we still can't comment on the EULA. Ever.

    _________________
    Derek French
    Producer, Live Team
    Neverwinter Nights"

  14. Re:Greetings from BioWare on Bioware Release Neverwinter Nights Beta Toolset · · Score: 2, Informative
    If Derek is full of crap, I suggest that you don't look too closely at the Morrowind EULA, a game which has already been released with a similar clause intact.

    "If You distribute or otherwise make available New Materials, You automatically grant to Bethesda Softworks the irrevocable, perpetual, royalty free, sublicensable, right and license under all applicable copyrights and intellectual property rights laws to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, perform, display, distribute and otherwise exploit and/or dispose of the New Materials (or any part of the New Materials) in any way Bethesda Softworks, or its respective designee(s), sees fit."
  15. Re:So, what hapenedto the game? on Bioware Release Neverwinter Nights Beta Toolset · · Score: 1

    This release is a BETA (and incomplete) version of the toolset. This is to give possible world builders a chance to play with the toolset before the game ships.

    They are pushing hard for a June ship date that will include both the toolset and the game.

  16. Yeah Smart Boards!! on "Smart Board" To Replace White Boards? · · Score: 1

    Being an educational institute in Calgary, Alberta (where SmartTech is located http://www.smarttech.com ) allows us to "partner" with them and get a lot of this technology into our new teaching facility.

    Our more technologically inclined instructors just love them and I highly recommend that people try them out.

    Now, I want one of the rear projection models ones for my monitor!!!

  17. Definitely Check Out on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 1

    As mentioned before, Wi-Lan, A company with alot of experience with wireless broadband in the Canadian context.

    Also contact, CANARIE, http://www.canarie.ca/ they do fund projects relating to education and training or they may know of initiatives underway in your area to supply broadband to schools.

    If you are in Alberta (which I assume you are not) then waiting for the Alberta Supernet implementation with dialup coverage might be a better solution than spending a bunch of cash now.
    http://www.albertasupernet.ca/