I ended up going with the MSG-free variety (the sodium content was roughly 1/8 that of the standard beef stock from any other brand, and 1/4 the sodium in the "low sodium" varieties), but the free market wouldn't let me avoid corn syrup as well.
It could be argued that the free-market was working correctly as despite the product range not being ideal you were still willing to buy one of them.
It's not so effective from the other side of the fence. It depends of course on what systems the individual council has put in place but for those that have gone to the trouble of developing a GIS based system that automatically creates enquires in their works management system having e-mails turn up from random 3rd party websites isn't especially efficient.
As someone pointed out, Quake opensourced the engine, not the content.
Indeed - which is why nQuake and others want you to provide pak1.pak from the full game to get textures and other content.
How about coding yours so that it loads resources it needs from a copy of the original game which you leave it up to the end-user to acquire? This is how Quake reimplementations work and ID don't seem to have complained about it.
It is indeed sad, but life is sad that way. If you don't think about the dollar worth, more human lives are lost. As she said in the article, the deceased himself, had he known the costs of his care could be used to vaccinate a tremendous amount of third-world children - he would have preferred the money be spent that way.
Or thinking less altrustically, a person might have a better life if instead of the money being spent to prolong their life at the end if was given to them in the prime of their life to have experiences that wouldn't otherwise have been open to them.
The problem though is that for the adverts to be relevent, either based on knowning the users interests or their location would have some privacy implications. It would work better, for the user at least if you could give the advertising network a list of subjects for adverts you would find acceptable. The problem with this though is that a lot of advertising exists precicely to try to sell things to people that they don't already think they need.
...if it's that you really want to be an IT teacher rather than a Chemistry teacher maybe you could get a new job?
It depends what the application needs to do, some capabilities are only available to self-signed binaries, others are restricted to formally certified applications. I've found the self-signing process from a developers point of view to be relatively painless so I don't mind that but what has annoyed me is that each symbian version has a slightly different set of APIs and it's frustrating to find that you can't do something on a phone that's less than 2 years old with no option to upgrade the OS.
There was the TestDrive system used for distributing ID games however I think that's a few years later than 1993 and possibly doesn't work in the same way; it worked by unencrypting a full copy of the game held on the same CD as the shareware one.
We do that now with Dell stock references, there are some downsides though - some users struggle to give them accurately over the phone and they're hard to memorise. I've also found a few cases where the person setting up the machine has done an inadvertent typo in the hostname, but that should improve now we're doing the 'hostname from BIOS' thing.
The previous system, which I preferred was to create the hostname from a two character OS shortcode and a sequential number - NT001, 2K001, XP001. If a machine is reinstalled to a new OS it gets a number in a high range, XP800 etc.
These are easy to give over the phone and memorise but the main advantage is that when a user calls you immediately know the OS of the PC and the approximate age of the hardware without having to consult your inventory database. Another useful thing is if you're having problems with connections to an application you can tell the OS of those clients which are able to connect to see if there's a pattern without needing to cross-check. If you do do this you still need to have the stock reference as the primary key in any inventory databases in case the OS (and hence hostname) changes.
They should skip the games and move straight to the Illustrated Primers, there's no better way of propagating British cultural memes.
It's certainly a very "shiny" product but the speed is average even amongst USB external enclosures. The supplied software is also rather quirky; the way it works is that it claims to always have a 2Tb partition and then fudges the amount of free space accordingly. The monitoring software also seems to require being run as an administrator.
One other thing about them which amused me was that whilst they support hot removal of drives the lack of caddies has meant they've had to put warning stickers advising you to turn the unit off for 15 minutes before doing so to avoid being burnt. Nice.
If you're interested in this area the book "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage is quite interesting.
If Machiavelli were a hacker, he'd have worked for the CSSG. -- Phil Lapsley
