Re: [Audyssey] USA Games News 7/25/2008
Hi John, Hehehehe. That sounds like it would be a lot of fun. Fortunately for me I just found out my apartment is being completed this week. Yay! With some luck and some help to move furnature, do house cleaning, etc I should be able to be moved back in by Friday all depending on if I can get help cleaning up the fantastic mess the contractors left behind in our apartment. When I say fantastic I do mean one huge mess. My apartment looks like the worlds largest tornado blew through there. There is white plaster over every single thing in the apartment, saw dust on our carpet, it smells like fresh paint, and all of our belongings are piled in massive piles everywhere. Basically, it is one massive mess to clean up. So condemning the contractors to the sault mines sounds like fun. Grin. John Bannick wrote: Thomas, In one of Lindsey Davis' novels about Marcus Didius Falco, a detective in ancient Rome, Falco is sending a criminal to the salt mines. The criminal asks if it's because he did the crime. Falco responds, No. It's because you are a building contractor. John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] USA Games News 7/25/2008
HI LOL I'D GET THEM TO CLEAR IT UP CHEEKY BASTARDS LOL YOU PAY THEM ENOUGH just like here in england when they do a job they just f**k off and leave us to clear up the mess didnt mean to write in caps for the first part of this message On 27 Jul 2008, at 17:16, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi John, Hehehehe. That sounds like it would be a lot of fun. Fortunately for me I just found out my apartment is being completed this week. Yay! With some luck and some help to move furnature, do house cleaning, etc I should be able to be moved back in by Friday all depending on if I can get help cleaning up the fantastic mess the contractors left behind in our apartment. When I say fantastic I do mean one huge mess. My apartment looks like the worlds largest tornado blew through there. There is white plaster over every single thing in the apartment, saw dust on our carpet, it smells like fresh paint, and all of our belongings are piled in massive piles everywhere. Basically, it is one massive mess to clean up. So condemning the contractors to the sault mines sounds like fun. Grin. John Bannick wrote: Thomas, In one of Lindsey Davis' novels about Marcus Didius Falco, a detective in ancient Rome, Falco is sending a criminal to the salt mines. The criminal asks if it's because he did the crime. Falco responds, No. It's because you are a building contractor. John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] USA Games News 7/25/2008
Send them to the diamond mines. Only thing is, you, not they, get the profits. (grin) I hope you get moved back in and things get back to, uh, normal?? sometime next week. -- Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ, and the American Soldier. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games News 7/25/2008 Hi John, Hehehehe. That sounds like it would be a lot of fun. Fortunately for me I just found out my apartment is being completed this week. Yay! With some luck and some help to move furnature, do house cleaning, etc I should be able to be moved back in by Friday all depending on if I can get help cleaning up the fantastic mess the contractors left behind in our apartment. When I say fantastic I do mean one huge mess. My apartment looks like the worlds largest tornado blew through there. There is white plaster over every single thing in the apartment, saw dust on our carpet, it smells like fresh paint, and all of our belongings are piled in massive piles everywhere. Basically, it is one massive mess to clean up. So condemning the contractors to the sault mines sounds like fun. Grin. John Bannick wrote: Thomas, In one of Lindsey Davis' novels about Marcus Didius Falco, a detective in ancient Rome, Falco is sending a criminal to the salt mines. The criminal asks if it's because he did the crime. Falco responds, No. It's because you are a building contractor. John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] USA Games News 7/25/2008
Thomas, In one of Lindsey Davis' novels about Marcus Didius Falco, a detective in ancient Rome, Falco is sending a criminal to the salt mines. The criminal asks if it's because he did the crime. Falco responds, No. It's because you are a building contractor. John --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] USA Games News 7/25/2008
USA Games News July 25, 2008 Introduction Hello everyone, and welcome to the July issue of the USA Games news letter. As always I hope to bring everyone up to the latest news we have available at this time. Before I can get into the real news for this month I must confess I have been suffering a lot of turmoil in my personal and professional life. Worse there has been little I can do to deal with the situation I am faced with, and USA Games has suffered as well. With this in mind I haven’t had much time or energy to devote to any of our products like Raceway, STFC 2.0, etc.At this point it doesn’t look like anything will return to normal until mid August or early September if I am lucky. Back on April 23 of this year my wife and I were forced to move out of our apartment building while our apartment management had contractors come in and renovate our apartment building. As a part of the new renovations we are getting a completely new kitchen, bath room, new doors, updated electrical outlets, you name it. Unfortunately, instead of doing one apartment at a time or at least one apartment building at a time they do a little here and a little there. As a result a project we expected to be over in a month has so far lasted a total of three months, and we don’t have any clue as to when these contractors will complete the renovations. Though, the contract dead line was suppose to be September for all the apartment buildings so my wife and I are hoping that they will have everything done then. As a side effect of all the renovations being done to our apartment I don’t currently have access to my home office network. Like anyone else in business all of my primary records, documentation, notes, whatever is stored on a Linux desktop PC I use as a file server which is currently disassembled. In fact, my entire office network is disassembled and I have no access to any of the materials on those computers at home. The only bright spot in all of this is I do have one of my laptops with me, a Compaq Presario C500 series notebook, which does allow me to get on the net, read my email, and do some programming. The problem is when I left home I was ill prepared for an extended stay and my in-laws house. If I wanted to look up some notes for a project I am working on I needed my notes which happens to be on my central file server which is down. If I want to use some code I wrote six months ago that is on that file server I can’t access it. If I want to look for a certain sound effect I know I have, that isn’t on my laptop, again it is on the file server or backed up on a disk which I can’t currently access. In short, I don’t have everything I need with me, and I don’t know when it will be before I can access those materials. Weather we like it or not USA games has been essentially closed until we can get settled back in our home, I can get my home office back in working order, and we don’t have continued disruptions from the contractors renovating this or that. There is not a whole lot I or anyone else can do until the contractors have completed all the renovations that need to be done before we can move back in. the situation frankly stinks, but it is out of our control for the moment. With all that said there is a little good news that we would like to share with you which we have been working on during our untimely exile. This new development may well change the way USA games handles the development of our products and open up new markets with Mac OS and Linux specific users as well. We are very happy about our recent research. So read on to get the scoop. Multiplatform Gaming Like many others out there I have slowly been moving away from traditional Windows based PC software, and have been moving towards applications made for Mac and Linux. Thanks to Section 508, which was passed in the United States in 2001, accessibility has drastically improved for the Mac and Linux operating systems. Both operating systems ship with built in screen reading, magnification, and Braille reading software that normally costs the average Windows PC user hundreds of dollars to own and upgrade. If a blind computer user owns a Mac or Linux system the screen reader and magnification software is free. The free screen reader and magnification software isn’t the only bonuses to using an operating system such as Ubuntu Linux 8.04. A Linux user can download and use several free high quality applications such as Open Office 2.4, Mozilla firefox 3.0, Pigeon Instant messenger, Evolution Email/calendar client, and more. Many of these applications are now accessible out of the box, and work very well with the built in Orca screen reader/magnifier software that ships with Linux. As a result of all these accessibility improvements Windows is no longer the only option for a blind computer user. We have a choice between using a Mac with Mac OS Leopard, a PC running Ubuntu Linux
