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

It's called Persistence Hunting, and it's awesome. There was a David Attenborough-narrated video of it on youtube that has been taken down, but basically they chase the animal for hours and hours. Being able to run isn't enough, you have to be able to quickly track it as well when it's out of sight. The upshot is that when you finally run it down, it's half dead with exhaustion already, and you can literally walk right up to it, spear in hand, and kill it.

It's also a possible explanation for our relative hairlessness. Sweating apparently works better for cooling on bare skin.

> The Rat became a government rat with a brainwashed woman as his significant other.

Uh... that happened in the very first book. The "earlier" novels were all prequels.

I can still remember how the Model I smelled.

I'm trying to switch over to linux, but only if I can run lotro. I'm hoping eventually swtor will play in wine...but right now I'll be happy just playing lotro.

I was under the impression that "Lord of the Rings Online" worked well in Wine 1.4, is it not the case?
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=4891
What GPU do you use? and what distro are you running?

It's too bad that Delphi didn't win out. It was a much better language/environment that VB6.

Seems that atty4kids has gone to 404 land. Interesting, that.

So what would this do to the ability to recycle the materials? A general rule is that recyclers want you to clean glass (rightly so, as ketchup turns to pretty much carbon at the 2000 deg F required to melt glass, thus spoiling the recyc batch), but what would this do under intense heat?

I used to work for Speakeasy.

That last 10% is generally considered to be transactional overhead. Speed testers don't tend to count that. Your best advice is to either live with the 300 kb/s missing, demand a 10% discount for that overhead (which will likely be unsuccessful, because that top speed is NOT guaranteed and it will most likely say as much in the TOS), or find a provider that will provide that max speed limit at all times.

Good luck.

On Wikipedia, there's a saying: "don't stuff beans in your nose". It's an admonishment to not tell somebody not to do something that shouldn't be done; somebody's liable to do it. Not sure if this truly bears relevance, but....

I'm talking US mail. Snail mail. Like "write a well-written letter and put it in an envelope and apply address and postage and dust off the mailbox and use it for outbound mail" mail.

If you're feeling that persistent, send them one copy of the same letter per day, for ten days, or until you get a response. Which ever comes first. Make it clear in your letter that you'll do this until you get an answer, expect delays in cessation, blah blah blah. Doesn't need to be more than one per day, because if you send two, they all arrive at once. And don't send on Sunday or holidays, they'll get two on arrival. Short version: annoy them to the point of response, not to the point of anger.

Don't care. I don't use Apple. Android does what I want the way I want. If Apple's iOS did it, I'd buy it. The end.