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I'm not sure if they are still issuing those, but those were issued in OH for any number of "point" infractions and/or suspended license issues, not just DUI.

The majority of them were for DUI, I'm sure.

Seems like this only affects

A) People with very large mailboxes
B) People using IMAP
C) A + B

I haven't encountered any problems with Thunderbird 3.

Seriously. I never answer the door unless I'm expecting a visitor who has let me know they're on the way.

I have to say, this has been my experience as well.

15 years as a programmer, and I've almost never had to use anything I learned past high school algebra. The couple times I needed something more than algebra, and it was statistics.

Programs should have more focus on statistics than calculus.

And we dig the Shiner Bock here in Ohio as well.

That's...not quite what I'm getting it. unfortunately, I don't really know how else to explain it other than prior to VII, technology was a part of the story but not something that had the camera pointed on it just for the sake of showing off technology. ::shrug:: not really sure how else to say it.

VII and the games that followed seemed to wallow in the technology present, as if the game was using the player's eyes to take them for a swim through electronics and advancement. Prior to VII, technology was something that was present, but didn't seem to be as in your face as it was in later games.

The focus, however, was placed on the fact that the Espers were used, rather than why they were used and the results from it. An entire segment of the game takes place in a giant Magitek factory, yet we learn very little about the actual process or the potential technology that can be built from it.

Sure you learned about what the result was -- Humans could learn magic, or you could make a mech or other machines with magic attacks. I mean of course they don't go into the process. Magic esper-eating tanks suck the energy from espers, what more could they say? They don't describe the process of infusing Cloud with magical Jenova cells and mako energy either.

Even the MagitekArmor was like this...we knew, based on the name, that they had to be created using the life force of the espers...but that's it. Were it not for the name, they could just be any other mech.

If not for the name, they could just be any of the other mechs/robots/machines with no reference to being powered by magic at all that were in FFVI. The Empire was a technological city before they came across the Espers and have lots of non-esper-powered technology (that you have to fight). Edgar was a character who did nothing but use non-magical gadgets and had a castle that could dig through sand based on its advanced technology alone. No espers were involved in the use of airships... and so on and so on.

This is the sort of focus on fantasy that I mean, rather than focusing on technology.

I'm really trying to fit what you're saying with my memories of FFVI and FFVII to see what you mean. But all I'm really getting is that you like technology that is explicitly powered by magic, rather than technology that is merely indistinguishable from magic in a world where magic exists.

It's not just VII...I have tried and really wanted to enjoy all of the numbered entries in the series from VII on,

Meh. I haven't played any past VII, since my access to non-Nintendo consoles was based entirely on an old college roommate. So I'm just looking at VII. I can obviously see that there's more technology present in VII, but I don't get what you mean by "focus".

Packet collisions don't occur on modern networks, though. Were they actually running token ring (or pre-token ring), or was that just sarcasm?

Far enough to get me to work, although I'd have to recharge here before heading home.

Though it seems like a cool idea, I cannot see how getting a power source in an unregulated (no laws) area like space would be beneficial.

Who's gonna be the first bean counter to get fired because he/she signed up for this new service then was unable to perform normal duties when the system was accidentally hit by a rock and there's no backup.

I used to work at a place where the help desk did more or less the same thing... they'd put administrative account names and passwords on their monitor on post-it notes. I guess that's not so insecure after all.

I'm sorry, but until I can look at a minimum of 1600x1200 resolution display, and give input by hand gestures (data gloves), (and maybe voice), it isn't wearable computing.

I want to be sitting absolutely anywhere and wiggling my fingers in the data gloves and making gestures, looking at >=1600x1200, with reasonable speed & memory capacity. Or hell, even walking around so I don't get so damn fat.

--PM