I'm curious what you mean. I implemented the feature that disables ads for subscribers and Maker-mode users, but that doesn't sound like what you mean. How were you trying to turn off the ads?
The acquisition makes sense, in that they obviously want ratings of restaurants (and other places) on Maps, and they've already changed tactics there once or twice. This'll pretty much take care of that problem.
I start to wonder, though, whether any acquisition by Google wouldn't "make sense". Their purchase of Motorola Mobility makes sense, too (though not to everyone). When you buy a consumer electronics company and a restaurant guide in consecutive months, what won't you buy? What acquisitions won't "make sense"?
Google buys Pacific Gas and Electric for $20B. Makes sense...
This is 29% more than the GDP of the entire world which, in 2009, was only $58 trillion.
The United States GDP for the same year was a measly $14 trillion, which is almost equal to our national debt (which TFA notes).
Narrator:
Was it ticking?
Airport Security Officer:
Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick.
Narrator:
Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Officer:
Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police.
Narrator:
My suitcase was vibrating?
Airport Security Officer:
Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...
Airport Security Officer:[whispering] it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article: a dildo, never your dildo.
Narrator:
I don't own...
If our schoolchildren were forced to read some of the classics, I wonder how different things might be in America today.
I'm not so sure. I'm a student at St. John's College, where the sophmores just got done reading Plutarch's Cato the Younger, Caesar, Antony, and Brutus.
In the Seminar discussions that followed, I was amazed by how many students, who claim to hate tyranny, given their fairly extreme views on Bush, but were quite the fans of both Caesar and Antony, and against Cato and Brutus. It was mind-boggling. I and one other of my classmates were basically the only ones defending the defenders of the Roman Republic.
Nifty - although not particularly useful, it's still kinda neat.
Quines are particularly useful, actually. It proves that there can, conceptually at least, exist a machine capable of replicating itself in full.
As an example, nanotechnology presumes that we'll be able to build machines that could build exact copies of themselves, in order that we don't have to make machines to stamp out billions of microscopic nanites. Well, is this possible? It's tempting to just say "sure, of course", and it is indeed possible, but not obviously so.
If a nanite's going to make an exact copy of itself, it has to copy its brain. Which means it has to store the blueprints for its brain. Which means it has to be able to replicate *that*. Et cetera.
Try it! Try writing your own quine. It isn't trivial. But it is possible, which makes nanotech doable in theory. If quines didn't exist, or let's say they were provably impossible, nanotech would be that much more implausible.
Well, it seems very likely to me that HP has nothing to do with this. HP calculator emulators are a very popular thing to make. There are emulators for pretty much anything on which you want to emulate an HP calculator (and some you probably don't).
It's perfectly legal to make an HP calculator emulator, by emulating the processor inside, but you can't distribute the essential ROM images that make 'em work. At least, that's how it was, last time I checked. If you have your own HP calculator, though, you can dump the ROM for your own use, with no other restrictions (again, as far as I remember).
"Likewise, maybe as a favor to an agent, I could post something like, 'I love this, my boss loves it.' That will create buzz, and quite possibly people will start bidding preemptively because they're afraid of losing the project."
Movie titles flash before my eyes: Bubble Boy. Kangaroo Jack. Dude, Where's My Car?
Hitler, of course, was not in power immediately after WWI, and might not have had the platform to get there if the Treaty of Versailles hadn't been dedicated to getting revenge against his country.
I think you're probably right. But you forget at whose insistence the punitive treaty came: The French and the British. Who, by the way, partitioned the middle east between them, setting the stage for all sorts of fun stuff to come.
I wonder. I was recently reading Band of Brothers, and was *quite* surprised to find that Abercrombie & Fitch dates to at least World War II.
(In fact, as a bit of research indicates, Abercrombie & Fitch has been around (as "David T. Abercrombie Co.") since 1892, and has been operating as "Abercrombie & Fitch" since 1904. Bleagh.)
I just tried the lightbulb. It was quite impressive: no results for about two seconds, then some very pretty colors, though I was slightly worried that somehow the radiation produced would be unhealthy. I hope not. After a few seconds (10 or so), it exploded, with little bits of glass coating the bottom of the microwave.
Oops.
Good thing I was already planning on doing some cleaning today.
Wow. I just went through this, trying to change the DNSes for my domains. It seems that one domain, which I registered in 1998, uses the old, agreeably disagreeable method we're all accustomed to. Another domain, which I registered in 1999, uses some other method involving a wholly unmemorizable number and a password which I never set, and which, to my recollection, was never assigned.
I called NSI. Which had the predictable result. I got in touch with what just had to be the least intelligent phone operator ever (or merely the very least motivated), who told me that there was simply nothing to be done short of faxing them. I don't have a fax, and besides, this is ludicrous. The old system isn't there anymore, they didn't provide me a means of transferring to the new, and they want me to prove my identity as a result? Screw it.
The same operator didn't seem to mind when I asked him how to transfer my domain name. Seventy-two hours later (or so) my domain is registered elsewhere for half the price NSI wanted, my DNS records are changed, and everyone's happier (quite probably including the surly NSI phone drone).
Now here's the funny part. The answer to the question is that all you have to do is get the new registrar to ask NSI to transfer the domain name. NSI will email you. All you have to do is respond to the email (following its simple instructions), and you're set. No fax, no proof of identity, nothing. Just have the email address registered with NSI.
Family (except that I'm not married and have no children, and "girlfriend" might be somewhere between "Play" and "Family".
So, is one-third of this triad going to come into play when I decide where I want to live? Of course!
But, see, the thing is that liquor laws aren't all that crippling (execept that they frequently include arbitrary limits on when can buy it, and since I stay up late and get up late, my day tends to be shifted, so this is a problem). What irritates me is the attitude that the State ought to protect me from myself. (And, without confusing the issue, that attitude is why it is very unlikely I'll ever move to Utah generally, and Salt Lake City specifically.)
For small font sizes, anti-aliasing usually blurs the gylph beyond recognition.
Interesting. I've found the opposite. In fact, I'd imagine that if the text were so small that anti-aliasing would blur it beyond recognition, then the text would likely be mostly unreadable aliased, as well.
(Oh, and thanks for the explanation of why it's called "aliased".)
why do I care if my fonts are "anti-aliased". what does this mean?
Text is often composed of a two-dimensional array of black and white (say) pixels. (Duh. You knew that.) Text of this sort is called "aliased", for reasons which escape me. The problem with aliased text is the jagged edges on diagonals and rounded characters. Anti-aliased text, by contrast (pun not intended) has greyish pixels on certain borders between the black and the white, lending a more rounded shape to things that would otherwise look stair-stepped.
Some people like this. And sometimes, especially with TrueType fonts at very small point sizes, it can be very nice. (Notice how damned unreadable Netscape is on UNIX? Aliasing at work.) But other times, like in the screenshot, it just makes things look fuzzy.
Yeah, I was in 2nd grade. It was weird. My teacher started to tell us about it. We'd read somewhere (Weekly Reader?) that there would be a teacher on this mission, and when my 2nd grade teacher brought up the subject that morning, I remember saying that *she* should've been the teacher to go into space...
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Normal Slashdot has a "disable ads" button if you have good karma. I believe that is what they are rederring to.
Indeed. That's Maker mode, as I mentioned, though Maker mode doesn't get offered for merely good karma.
I've implemented ad hiding for Maker mode, but if I can reproduce a bug with it, I'll fix it.
I'm curious what you mean. I implemented the feature that disables ads for subscribers and Maker-mode users, but that doesn't sound like what you mean. How were you trying to turn off the ads?
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I'd've been okay with more comments as well. ;-)
The acquisition makes sense, in that they obviously want ratings of restaurants (and other places) on Maps, and they've already changed tactics there once or twice. This'll pretty much take care of that problem.
I start to wonder, though, whether any acquisition by Google wouldn't "make sense". Their purchase of Motorola Mobility makes sense, too (though not to everyone). When you buy a consumer electronics company and a restaurant guide in consecutive months, what won't you buy? What acquisitions won't "make sense"?
Google buys Pacific Gas and Electric for $20B. Makes sense...
This is 29% more than the GDP of the entire world which, in 2009, was only $58 trillion. The United States GDP for the same year was a measly $14 trillion, which is almost equal to our national debt (which TFA notes).
— Fight Club (also)
I'm pretty sure the participle of dye is dyeing, actually.
I'm not so sure. I'm a student at St. John's College, where the sophmores just got done reading Plutarch's Cato the Younger, Caesar, Antony, and Brutus.
In the Seminar discussions that followed, I was amazed by how many students, who claim to hate tyranny, given their fairly extreme views on Bush, but were quite the fans of both Caesar and Antony, and against Cato and Brutus. It was mind-boggling. I and one other of my classmates were basically the only ones defending the defenders of the Roman Republic.
Quines are particularly useful, actually. It proves that there can, conceptually at least, exist a machine capable of replicating itself in full.
As an example, nanotechnology presumes that we'll be able to build machines that could build exact copies of themselves, in order that we don't have to make machines to stamp out billions of microscopic nanites. Well, is this possible? It's tempting to just say "sure, of course", and it is indeed possible, but not obviously so.
If a nanite's going to make an exact copy of itself, it has to copy its brain. Which means it has to store the blueprints for its brain. Which means it has to be able to replicate *that*. Et cetera.
Try it! Try writing your own quine. It isn't trivial. But it is possible, which makes nanotech doable in theory. If quines didn't exist, or let's say they were provably impossible, nanotech would be that much more implausible.
Well, it seems very likely to me that HP has nothing to do with this. HP calculator emulators are a very popular thing to make. There are emulators for pretty much anything on which you want to emulate an HP calculator (and some you probably don't).
It's perfectly legal to make an HP calculator emulator, by emulating the processor inside, but you can't distribute the essential ROM images that make 'em work. At least, that's how it was, last time I checked. If you have your own HP calculator, though, you can dump the ROM for your own use, with no other restrictions (again, as far as I remember).
It certainly does explain how Kangaroo Jack makes it to theaters.
On the second page:
I think you're probably right. But you forget at whose insistence the punitive treaty came: The French and the British. Who, by the way, partitioned the middle east between them, setting the stage for all sorts of fun stuff to come.
Sorry, no moral high ground there.
I wonder. I was recently reading Band of Brothers , and was *quite* surprised to find that Abercrombie & Fitch dates to at least World War II.
(In fact, as a bit of research indicates, Abercrombie & Fitch has been around (as "David T. Abercrombie Co.") since 1892, and has been operating as "Abercrombie & Fitch" since 1904. Bleagh.)
I just tried the lightbulb. It was quite impressive: no results for about two seconds, then some very pretty colors, though I was slightly worried that somehow the radiation produced would be unhealthy. I hope not. After a few seconds (10 or so), it exploded, with little bits of glass coating the bottom of the microwave.
Oops.
Good thing I was already planning on doing some cleaning today.
It's interesting: AOL has bought almost all of the coolest stuff on the Net: Netscape, ICQ, WinAMP. Don't forget that Gnutella came out of there, too.
And they've let all of them, so far, mostly be their own companies.
Wow. I just went through this, trying to change the DNSes for my domains. It seems that one domain, which I registered in 1998, uses the old, agreeably disagreeable method we're all accustomed to. Another domain, which I registered in 1999, uses some other method involving a wholly unmemorizable number and a password which I never set, and which, to my recollection, was never assigned.
I called NSI. Which had the predictable result. I got in touch with what just had to be the least intelligent phone operator ever (or merely the very least motivated), who told me that there was simply nothing to be done short of faxing them. I don't have a fax, and besides, this is ludicrous. The old system isn't there anymore, they didn't provide me a means of transferring to the new, and they want me to prove my identity as a result? Screw it.
The same operator didn't seem to mind when I asked him how to transfer my domain name. Seventy-two hours later (or so) my domain is registered elsewhere for half the price NSI wanted, my DNS records are changed, and everyone's happier (quite probably including the surly NSI phone drone).
Now here's the funny part. The answer to the question is that all you have to do is get the new registrar to ask NSI to transfer the domain name. NSI will email you. All you have to do is respond to the email (following its simple instructions), and you're set. No fax, no proof of identity, nothing. Just have the email address registered with NSI.
And I would have to say that is more critical than eating.
Hard to hold a fork or a spoon or a food bowl when RUF rebels rebels have chopped your hands off (Sierra Leone)...
Come on! Don't you see that a communications infrastructure will help Africans to generate wealth?
There are rougly three aspects to my life:
So, is one-third of this triad going to come into play when I decide where I want to live? Of course!
But, see, the thing is that liquor laws aren't all that crippling (execept that they frequently include arbitrary limits on when can buy it, and since I stay up late and get up late, my day tends to be shifted, so this is a problem). What irritates me is the attitude that the State ought to protect me from myself. (And, without confusing the issue, that attitude is why it is very unlikely I'll ever move to Utah generally, and Salt Lake City specifically.)
Interesting. I've found the opposite. In fact, I'd imagine that if the text were so small that anti-aliasing would blur it beyond recognition, then the text would likely be mostly unreadable aliased, as well.
(Oh, and thanks for the explanation of why it's called "aliased".)
Text is often composed of a two-dimensional array of black and white (say) pixels. (Duh. You knew that.) Text of this sort is called "aliased", for reasons which escape me. The problem with aliased text is the jagged edges on diagonals and rounded characters. Anti-aliased text, by contrast (pun not intended) has greyish pixels on certain borders between the black and the white, lending a more rounded shape to things that would otherwise look stair-stepped.
Some people like this. And sometimes, especially with TrueType fonts at very small point sizes, it can be very nice. (Notice how damned unreadable Netscape is on UNIX? Aliasing at work.) But other times, like in the screenshot, it just makes things look fuzzy.
Yeah, I was in 2nd grade. It was weird. My teacher started to tell us about it. We'd read somewhere (Weekly Reader?) that there would be a teacher on this mission, and when my 2nd grade teacher brought up the subject that morning, I remember saying that *she* should've been the teacher to go into space...
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