bakerstreet

bakerstreet

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Reply to The Flu in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My little girl only had checkups before kindergarden. Not a single cold previous. Her kindergarden year she missed 23 days of school and went to the doctor a dozen times. She was constantly sick. This year has been beter, but no less sickness, just not to a debilitating degree. Everything she has, we get. The problem, i think, is society. Parents have structured care for their children, and a sick day throws a wrench in it. Instead, then, of having to find a sitter or missing wor

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Reply to An interesting column on copyright law in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

EnsRegis: you have the God given right to watch what you want, and to fast-forward through what you want, but it is *illegal* to alter an artists copyrighted work and resell it without his permission. I tend to agree that if you want to get the software to edit and bleep stuff in your own home on post-market material, that is your right, too, but when businesses offer such services on pre-market media they are creating derivative works, and therefore have to have permission from the copyright h

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Reply to Business Proposal for Experienced 'Skinners' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There is an offer like this one floated here every month or so, and I have yet to see any produce any reasonable result. I would suggest waiting until there is substantial information both on the project, the amount of labor, and the rights retained by the artists involved. "customizing window's look and feel to represent college campuses" could mean anything from desktop wallpaper to a full suite of themed skins and a shell replacement. If they are only now hiring developers,

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Reply to An interesting column on copyright law in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

EnsRegis: I am familiar with Ms. Schlafly, unfortunately. Anyone who knows me online and off knows that I am conservative, fiscally and otherwise. She is to my beliefs, though, what Phil Donahue is for Democrats, and 'You damn, dirty apes' is for the NRA; i.e. one so sadly out-of-step and politically motivated that she is a liability, even when you agree with her. That generation is fading, though, so perhaps things will improve. In this case I think you are right, she likes copyright law,

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Reply to An interesting column on copyright law in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

P.S. I have to voice my utter outrage and disgust for the statement: "Eight Hollywood studios have filed suit against local retailers who buy their videos and DVDs and then delete the nudity, violence and foul language for the benefit and at the expense of their customers. Hollywood doesn't lose any sales from this practice; Hollywood is just determined to force viewers to watch the lurid sex and violence." The idea that any party thinks they have the right to COMMERCIALLY cen

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Reply to An interesting column on copyright law in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

One can make a bugbear out of the entertainment industry, that's easy, but what you can't do is tell me how to protect my work. Do i do it electronically? No, that is hampering your freedom. Can I sue you? No, that is litigious bullying. Can I have your butt thrown in jail? No, that is using the government for my evil, money-grubbing purposes. There are hippy/geek freaks saying that the whole idea of copyrights and patents is wrong, that the concept totally serves the 'corporate'

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Reply to Question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

lol, if you have to ask someone what they are 'taking' from your machine, then your problem is crummy security, not a malicious web site. You better know what is accessable, because the average person that steals info from you won't have a messageboard to answer your queries.

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Reply to My PC sucks, how about you? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

heh, if we are talking sucks, I have a timez/sinclair here in a drawer... my laptop: p90 IBM thinkpad 48megs of ram 2 meg video, 256 colors 800 meg hard drive. I use the lappy for ebooks and as a stereo in my bedroom. I use a 200mgz IBM pizzabox for a file/web server here at the house, and it faithfully handles access from 2 or 3 machines at once for mp3s, ebooks, etc. DOn't toss those old machines, put them to work for you.

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Reply to Words of wisdom... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"From this a general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power... Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be

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Reply to My PC sucks, how about you? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I think we should all be prepared for Doom 3. I have a feeling a lot of people's computers are going to suddenly suck. I bought my 1.8 gig when the 2.2 was coming out, and now there is a 3 gig. No biggy, because the minimum requirements for software hasn't kept up, but I have a feeling there is a fleet of products being produced now that are gonna require >1 gig processors. The two things I am most often annoyed by are my video card and ram. I got a matrox g450 because of

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