This is ask slahsdot, not ask slashdot readers to do scientifically sound, heavy research with large sample sizes for you. The author wants to know the readers thoughts, he doesn't (shouldn't) expect 'proof'.
Why? It's an excellent play on words, since it not only makes a joke of the word pedophile, but also perfectly explains the user base of the website (people who love ipods - podophiles) The word and website name actually makes perfect sense, and the fact that it calls to mind the word pedophile is a joke...
Thats not true. My ISP allows me to max my connection on usenet, using their newsservers. Why would i pay for giganews? Their retention is also upwards of 30 days.
Quite evidently he speaks for enough of the community for all three of your posts to have been modded -1. Good day sir. I suggest you stop before you lose any more mod points.
What instance is there of a corporation committing murder and just being fined? I'm pretty sure that would be conspiracy, and would be even more serious than just if a civilian committed murder. Then, I live in Canada so i could be wrong.:)
Recently in high school the school installed a bunch of new computers in the library, and me and a couple of my friends found that the BIOS on the new machines wasnt password protected, so we fixed that. We also created boot passwords. Quite hilarious watching the mediocre computer teacher and 'admin team' try and sort it out. It wasn't until one of us suggested that they pull the motherboard batteries that the computers were fixed. That was a couple days after the initial prank:P.
I'm pretty sure when he said commenting he meant writing that comment, not saying something aloud. Therefore, if he's at the back of the class, on a laptop, how is he disrupting anything? He doesn't think the teacher is teaching worthwhile, so he's amusing himself, quietly, unless his laptop keyboard is especially loud and distracting. It's no different from the kids who choose to space out and listen to music. He's not ruining the teacher's lesson or any of the other things that he was criticized for. At least that's how I interpreted his use of the word commenting.
If you think your input is ok, why are you hiding? Oh wait, because you KNOW your input isn't ok, and you're a fucking coward) This coming from the guy who posts as an AC... whats the matter, afraid to be modded down?
It was a joke, since you wrote 'loose' instead of lose. Tighten is the opposite of loose. He was just pointing out your mistake in a funny way, although you seemed to completely miss it, and managed to misspell lose again in your reply....
Agreed. It's perfect for enthusiasts because it offers near limitless customization, and lets you do whatever you want, but even 'user friendly' distros like ubuntu never just work, and to someone who doesn't care about the capabilities a bash shell offers them, everything just seems 10X harder than it is on windows.
Yeah, I remember something similar in the gameboy pokemon red and blue games. If you surfed up and down in one certain area, you could fight a pokemon named 'MissingNo.' and after the fight, the sixth item in your inventory would have increased in amount to 255, and until you got below 100, the number would be represented by symbols.
The parent was responding to when his parent said that there is no overflow protection. Thats a way of protecting against overflows. He wasn't saying that this is what the devs should have done.
Agreed, there's nothing I can't stand more than somebody in counter strike telling me not to swear, there's a kid in the server. FFS, the game is rated M - if the kid is mature enough to be seeing the bloodstains on the wall after you shoot someone, or even just to be reenacting shooting someone, they can handle some swear words. I also get extremely fed up with censoring of language in movies such as Goodfellas, 'cause its the same premise.
I'm 16, and I think it was pretty cool that my mom allowed me to teach her to play counter strike. She doesn't play it very often, but every once in a while when I'm playing, she'll ask to go on, and have me show her some things. TBH, everyone I play with think that's pretty cool too, so I guess as long as you have good parents who you can stand spending time with, it's very cool for teenagers to play games with their parents.
There are technical reasons. 'Technically' backporting it would cost them money, and 'Technically' it's a possibility that not backporting it could make them money, therefore they don't want to backport it:P.
iTunes is set up quite well to encourage this sort of exploration; there's also Pandora, last.fm, and countless alternative streaming radio stations. That's true, however it is impossible to get a representative view of a specific artist from these sites. On last.fm for example, I could go and listen to 5 30 second clips, but this wouldn't do the artist justice, or give me a very good idea of whether I want to support the artist or not. Whereas, if i go and grab a torrent of that same artist's discography, say MF DOOM, his 64 album collection, and give it a listen first, I know exactly whether this artist is worth spending money on, and which albums/songs I should spend money on. There's no way I could get that from 5 30 second clips. I/could/ spend my time tracking down his cds in libraries, or on demo at music stores, etc. However for old albums, or niche artists this is nearly impossible.
When he says the majority of citizens, he obviously means the majority of citizens the law is relevant to. If I were to say 'The majority of citizens follow/break traffic laws' I would mean the majority of citizens who drive cars. So in this case, only the majority of internet users is relevant, since the law isn't relevant to those not on the internet. This would mean only 36.6% of US Citizens would have to use p2p. I'm sure this number is still much higher than the actual usage, but you still shouldn't misinterpret his comment.
You don't see what the other person's camera shows, the camera just registers the card and sends the info of what card it is along to the other client, at which point a computer generated 3d model is created on their tv, so no, you can't see who's got fake cards.
They're physical cards, and there are symbols on them that are recognized by the playstation 3 camera. The point of TFA is that the camera also recognizes printouts of the cards, so people don't have to spend money on buying the physical cards, they can just print them out.
My suggestion would be to use it for fractions of a second, in regular intervals, say 1 minute. Each minute that the mob doesn't disperse, it is hit with a 1/4 second wave of pain. Perhaps after 10 minutes this increases to 1/2 second, and so forth. This would take care of the problem of higher pain tolerances, allowing the weaker to leave the area, while still offering a reasonable punishment to those who choose to stay.
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This is ask slahsdot, not ask slashdot readers to do scientifically sound, heavy research with large sample sizes for you. The author wants to know the readers thoughts, he doesn't (shouldn't) expect 'proof'.
Why? It's an excellent play on words, since it not only makes a joke of the word pedophile, but also perfectly explains the user base of the website (people who love ipods - podophiles) The word and website name actually makes perfect sense, and the fact that it calls to mind the word pedophile is a joke...
Thats not true. My ISP allows me to max my connection on usenet, using their newsservers. Why would i pay for giganews? Their retention is also upwards of 30 days.
Quite evidently he speaks for enough of the community for all three of your posts to have been modded -1. Good day sir. I suggest you stop before you lose any more mod points.
What instance is there of a corporation committing murder and just being fined? I'm pretty sure that would be conspiracy, and would be even more serious than just if a civilian committed murder. Then, I live in Canada so i could be wrong. :)
Recently in high school the school installed a bunch of new computers in the library, and me and a couple of my friends found that the BIOS on the new machines wasnt password protected, so we fixed that. We also created boot passwords. Quite hilarious watching the mediocre computer teacher and 'admin team' try and sort it out. It wasn't until one of us suggested that they pull the motherboard batteries that the computers were fixed. That was a couple days after the initial prank :P.
I'm pretty sure when he said commenting he meant writing that comment, not saying something aloud. Therefore, if he's at the back of the class, on a laptop, how is he disrupting anything? He doesn't think the teacher is teaching worthwhile, so he's amusing himself, quietly, unless his laptop keyboard is especially loud and distracting. It's no different from the kids who choose to space out and listen to music. He's not ruining the teacher's lesson or any of the other things that he was criticized for. At least that's how I interpreted his use of the word commenting.
It was a joke, since you wrote 'loose' instead of lose. Tighten is the opposite of loose. He was just pointing out your mistake in a funny way, although you seemed to completely miss it, and managed to misspell lose again in your reply....
Agreed. It's perfect for enthusiasts because it offers near limitless customization, and lets you do whatever you want, but even 'user friendly' distros like ubuntu never just work, and to someone who doesn't care about the capabilities a bash shell offers them, everything just seems 10X harder than it is on windows.
Yeah, I remember something similar in the gameboy pokemon red and blue games. If you surfed up and down in one certain area, you could fight a pokemon named 'MissingNo.' and after the fight, the sixth item in your inventory would have increased in amount to 255, and until you got below 100, the number would be represented by symbols.
The parent was responding to when his parent said that there is no overflow protection. Thats a way of protecting against overflows. He wasn't saying that this is what the devs should have done.
..and yet the HOWEVER SLIGHT possibility that they had refilled those bottles with soda is still reasonable doubt.
500 cds at $10/cd is $5000...
Agreed, there's nothing I can't stand more than somebody in counter strike telling me not to swear, there's a kid in the server. FFS, the game is rated M - if the kid is mature enough to be seeing the bloodstains on the wall after you shoot someone, or even just to be reenacting shooting someone, they can handle some swear words. I also get extremely fed up with censoring of language in movies such as Goodfellas, 'cause its the same premise.
I'm 16, and I think it was pretty cool that my mom allowed me to teach her to play counter strike. She doesn't play it very often, but every once in a while when I'm playing, she'll ask to go on, and have me show her some things. TBH, everyone I play with think that's pretty cool too, so I guess as long as you have good parents who you can stand spending time with, it's very cool for teenagers to play games with their parents.
There are technical reasons. 'Technically' backporting it would cost them money, and 'Technically' it's a possibility that not backporting it could make them money, therefore they don't want to backport it :P.
When he says the majority of citizens, he obviously means the majority of citizens the law is relevant to. If I were to say 'The majority of citizens follow/break traffic laws' I would mean the majority of citizens who drive cars. So in this case, only the majority of internet users is relevant, since the law isn't relevant to those not on the internet. This would mean only 36.6% of US Citizens would have to use p2p. I'm sure this number is still much higher than the actual usage, but you still shouldn't misinterpret his comment.
iPhone != iPod
You don't see what the other person's camera shows, the camera just registers the card and sends the info of what card it is along to the other client, at which point a computer generated 3d model is created on their tv, so no, you can't see who's got fake cards.
They're physical cards, and there are symbols on them that are recognized by the playstation 3 camera. The point of TFA is that the camera also recognizes printouts of the cards, so people don't have to spend money on buying the physical cards, they can just print them out.
It is to those of us who live in Canada :).
My suggestion would be to use it for fractions of a second, in regular intervals, say 1 minute. Each minute that the mob doesn't disperse, it is hit with a 1/4 second wave of pain. Perhaps after 10 minutes this increases to 1/2 second, and so forth. This would take care of the problem of higher pain tolerances, allowing the weaker to leave the area, while still offering a reasonable punishment to those who choose to stay.