Of course since the game has been opened, it can't be returned. It would be interesting to go the Credit Card approach that the item was not substantially as promised and provide the attempts at resolution that have been made.
Execute a chargeback, and then when you're in the clear destroy your copy of the disk.
(Personally then go outside and get some fresh air, but not everyone can do that)
I was diagnosed with stage 5 cancer at age 17. I'm still alive at age 33.
There's not a day that goes by when I don't look at my disfigured face and wonder what thing would have been like if I'd caught it sooner- according to one doc, I'd have been dead because my body wouldn't have fought it off. Who knows.
But anything that gets a genetic component and allows them to focus better on killing off the cells that have tormented me for over a dozen years I'll be more than grateful. There isn't a trip to the doctor that doesn't send shiver of fear down my spine, whether or not I'll be able to continue to provide for my family- whether or not that cough that started was due to pollen or something else... whether or not that pain in the side is a kidney stone or something more sinister.
Cancer is a killer. Even the survivors die a little every day.
It works great, or so I'm told. They're able to get cops to where the shooter fired within minutes- and in plenty of time to round up witnesses who swear they "saw nuttin".
There's been at least one drive by in my 'work' neighborhood, and about a dozen+ deaths within a mile. Two bullets in our building. One in the front door within 5 minutes of me entering it (now THAT will freak you out- come into work, forget something, go back to the car and the door has been shot).
When I read the article I came up with over a dozen questions, none of which were adequately explained. Thus:
Other sources of carbon in the batch- You've got oak, the toasting process, blending of different types of oak/wines, reuse of barrels, different toasted barrels, different types of oak in the barrel, the possibility of a really old oak barrel (neutral) used for fermentation and combination of items such as StaVin's Oak Cubes or Oak Staves, (two different sources of carbon)...
Oak is aged anywhere from 2-3 years before toasting. Toasted oak could be years different than what the year of the vintage is. Oak Trees are significant sources of variability. (Toasting oak releases sugars and flavours into the wine).
Chaptalization is another source- sometimes wines are started with diluted or various mixes of sugar and water to strengthen the yeast growth. You have a grape must that is a little low in sugar- so add more sugar. Where did it come from? Who knows. Probably not beet sugar, if you know what I mean.
Say you have a stuck fermentation- you take some wine out, dilute it, add more sugar, wine, repeat- eventually bringing up the level until the yeast are strong enough to take back over.
Finally, you have blends. To the best of my knowledge a blended wine doesn't have to state the year or can state the year of the major component - depending on the laws of the region.
All in all... not the best article.
Actually, my wife and I make our own wine. We compare with other neighbors that do- and sometimes the 'vintages' are expressed in single digits- representing the number of WEEKS it's aged.
(And not all homemade wine is crap. I follow the same processes the big wineries do- even down to a sub-micron filter for clarification and stabilization. I use the same chemicals, same oaks, etc. My wines tend to be very good)...
Well, actually, it's around 3.5 HD, but it's the thought that counts.
This baby is awesome. I get to look at tons of displays for work and this one still takes the cake- it's made by Barco, is incredibly bright, has a built in calibration puck, comes with some decent software (ie, easily 'configured' for our purposes), and all around blows the socks off of everything on the market.
Don't mind the $16K price tag.
The diffuser used is so clean you could eat off it- none of that nasty subsurface artifacting that looks like dust on your screen (speckle). Just pure, rich, saturated colors that are accurately represented with no TFT structure to worry about.
Now, IBM had the T221 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors) which had a native resolution of 3840x2200- at 200ppi- so that your eyes could never make out the substructure of the pixels. Best of all the monitor had hardware interpolation- it could be used at 1/2x to basically present the user a clean screen with nothing to distract your eyes from. IBM did this back in 2000!
I'm pretty sure the fire marshal would want to talk to you. Your bedroom is probably limited to 15 individuals or less, you kinky bastard.
Exactly.
How you stitch together a book doesn't matter if it's for your own personal use.
Now, if you want to go commercial you've got quite a few things to figure out.
Regardless, what you're wanting to do is basically orthorectification. There is an open source package out there that does that. Figuring out how to do so would be left to you, but I'd recommend using some sort of yellow projection grid (or red from a red laser) to map the distortion and correct it by treating it as a DEM.
Poor man method- so long as you only want bw scans
When I was much much younger I was purchasing a violin. While at this shop the owner had a 'cheap' Stradivarius. After I had selected the instrument I wanted (this had been going on for weeks of trying them) the owner let me hold, and play, his 'cheap' Stradivarius.
The sound that effused out of that instrument can not be put into words to hear and feel... it made the one I selected sound as if it were a cheap knockoff made of plastic. The tones could not even be compared in the same room- one was transmitted through steel cups and a string, the other was singing in front of you.
To this day that is one of the more emotional feelings of music I have ever felt.
To have that sacred sound reproduced for everyone to have access to- I don't know. It is such a beautiful instrument that, currently, only the elite can have and play (most instruments are endowed to players- on 'loan'). Should everyone have access... would it be the same?
The Ultra 27 was released with 2 PCIe x16 slots
What's that got to do with their SPARC roadmap? Next x86 box we buy will be intel reference design. It's cheaper.
(not to mention there are bugs with the XVR-300 and the FX series of cards where you can't turn on 3 heads- it's 2 or 4 only)
Twice in my life have I been in a situation that would have resulted in a fatality while driving. Both times (and to this day) I get the shakes while thinking about it.
The first time a woman made a left turn while I was entering the intersection. She was oblivious- never even looked. I saw her little girl in the front seat staring at me, wide eyed with fear as my grand prix got closer and closer. I locked up the brakes, yanked the wheel hard left, skidded into oncoming traffic, went between two cars (THANK GOD they were paying attention) and ended up facing the wrong way- but everyone was alive- and the **((#(# woman never even slowed down. Funny thing- cops told me later that had I hit anyone it would have been 100% my fault.
Second time a little girl ran across the street in a crosswalk while her wheelchair bound (larger than life) mother followed her. She didn't stop running. Cars on either side... don't know how that one got dodged. I personally wish the US was more like the UK in this regards, then I'd be OK stopping and not having to worry about being rear-ended.
Either way- had I been inattentive due to an electronic device there would have been a death- no doubt in my mind. And I would have deserved every inch of that penalty meted out.
But having done everything possible to avoid an accident (say in the first case) and been unable to- no, I don't think I would deserve prison time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairport_High_School (fairport five).
- wait, are you talking about Microsoft or Apple?
I put all my valuables in my suitcase. TSA agents need DVDs, laptop power cords, etc- too.
I've had 4 DVD wallets stolen- so I'm really not joking here.
Physician: One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. -- Ambrose Bierce
