Yes, exactly. I've been looking for arguments for sending actual people up in to space still, other than for specifically observing what happens to people in space. Why can't the rest of the experiments be automated, or done with robotics of some sort? What makes them so special/fragile/weird?
That there exists the option for them to operate outside of specifications means that it can be counted as a statistical failure for the shuttle program - that is, the entire shuttle system, not just the hardware components.
The difference between this and a case of a real epidemic is that in this case it's very easy to identify those that are infected from those that aren't, from the ISP's point of view. It's utterly trivial.
The only reason disease quarantines affect so many people, healthy or not, is because it is not quite as trivial. Mistakes count a lot more, too.
There's just no reason to block everyone when you can just block the problem folks.
Don't forget about buying used. Used CD stores tend to have the music I want, that new music stores don't carry any longer. The money's already gone to the RIAA, the person who sold it to the store got some back, and the rest goes to the used CD store. So long as the store isn't owned itself by the RIAA, I don't see any harm..
Game items are in a fantasy world, where if the game ended tomorrow, there'd be no reason for the items to continue to exist.
Domain names are in the real world - specifically the Internet. If the Internet were to cease to exist tomorrow, then the domain names would have zero value.
Games are usually handled by a single company, so they could go out of business and take the game with it - the game can't exist without the business.
The Internet won't be going away any time soon - the Internet will exist when businesses close up shop - mostly because it uses open protocols, but also because there's sufficient demand and ability to keep it running.
He invested time and money in to his own personal enjoyment. He wasn't buying property, he wasn't buying shares of the company, wasn't putting his money in some sort of game bank to get some ROI.
He invested in those items as much as someone invests their Monopoly play money to buy hotels for Boardwalk.
The company probably should reimburse him if his items were lost due to their fault, and they want him to stay on as a paying customer, but nowhere in any agreement (at least none that I've seen) is there any mention that the player owns anything in the game.
To put the whole "investment" thing into perspective - what do you think would happen if the developer ended the game? They're not going to reimburse anyone their money (except maybe for that specific month), and they're sure as hell not going to compensate players for whatever items they may have had on their game character. That's because the company owns the code and the data - the player merely rents access to it.
#2
If your e-mails are so important, why let someone else host them, where they can read through them and/or have hardware failure which destroys them? Delete-after-pop should have been mandatory in the spec.
Even worse is when you do something like use the same function two times in a printf() line. Sometimes, for some reason, it will print the same results for both functions even if the two have different arguments.
Someone told me it was due to the memory addresses and caching or something. I haven't been able to duplicate it except by accident.:)
It's less annoying being hit on by a member of my own sex than it is to have people try to bring you in to their religion. The former simply means someone is attracted to you; the latter means someone wants you to live your life by their rules.
Well,/.'s gotta help spread SCO's FUD so that their stock price can keep rising. Every news venue covering the story has indirectly helped contribute to the SCO exec's pockets, especially Darl McBride, for his second house.
Holy cow, I do the same thing. Like, exactly the same thing. R=4, S=5, and then I get confused about why I thought it was an f for some reason. I read that article a while back, but I didn't realize it was related (I thought it was mainly a combination of smell/sight or sight/touch, etc?)
IMO, anyone on a heart-lung machine that doesn't have backup power, has basically signed their own DNR. It's not really all that expensive (in comparison to the heart-lung machine itself).
I'm in WA, and often times I won't get any notification at all for voicemail (this was on my old i1000plus and now the i90c) for days - then someone else will leave a message and I guess it "pushes" the first one through the system.
Thanks for the tip. I had no idea it worked that way. Every time I've had it on vibrate I couldn't hear the person at all, but maybe it was just that much quieter (never thought to try it, basically).
A big part of it is that with PTT you're not so inclined to do the whole "Hello" sequence or the "Bye" sequence. You hit the PTT button, they respond "Yes?", you hit it again "Where's that pie?", they respond "On the shelf" - the end. Total of something like 15 seconds, vs however long it takes to do the hello/goodbye/etc sequence, or the risk of reaching the dreaded voicemail.
There's also no "dead air" time while people are talking - if you use digital cell phones you may know what I'm talking about. When a conversation goes silent, you can't hear anything at all - you have to take the phone from your ear and visually check the display to see if you're still connected. With PTT, there's a clear chirp at the start, and a different chirp at the end.
The Nextel I have (i90c) lets me assign "Private ID" (PTT) and regular phone numbers for each person on my list, so if something's not short enough to be asked over PTT, I can just hit a different button and call instead.
It's a sweet feature.
Unfortunately, on the Nextels, you tend to trade quality for this feature (specifically, the voicemail notification system is totally bad). But with competition, this may change.
And yet, that feature is worth charging for. Having to answer the phone within 4 rings is not always an option - sometimes it ends up a "mad rush" to get to it. With Direct Connect you don't have to rush.
If it's more efficient for them, and more efficient for me - well, then everyone wins!
"Consider this: Microsoft has been ordered not to use the term MSCE in both the United States and Canada because Microsoft does not have the legal right to "certify" people as engineers."
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From the EULA:
..."
"It is not permitted:
- To make copies of XIII,
- To operate XIII commercially,
- To use it contrary to morality or the laws in force,
What on earth does that mean? Is UbiSoft going to attempt to describe all of the "moral" rules we're supposed to abide by? Wacky.
Yes, exactly. I've been looking for arguments for sending actual people up in to space still, other than for specifically observing what happens to people in space. Why can't the rest of the experiments be automated, or done with robotics of some sort? What makes them so special/fragile/weird?
That there exists the option for them to operate outside of specifications means that it can be counted as a statistical failure for the shuttle program - that is, the entire shuttle system, not just the hardware components.
The difference between this and a case of a real epidemic is that in this case it's very easy to identify those that are infected from those that aren't, from the ISP's point of view. It's utterly trivial.
The only reason disease quarantines affect so many people, healthy or not, is because it is not quite as trivial. Mistakes count a lot more, too.
There's just no reason to block everyone when you can just block the problem folks.
The reference has been used many, many times in other shows (Sesame Street, Family Guy (best one), etc).
Don't forget about buying used. Used CD stores tend to have the music I want, that new music stores don't carry any longer. The money's already gone to the RIAA, the person who sold it to the store got some back, and the rest goes to the used CD store. So long as the store isn't owned itself by the RIAA, I don't see any harm..
Game items are in a fantasy world, where if the game ended tomorrow, there'd be no reason for the items to continue to exist.
Domain names are in the real world - specifically the Internet. If the Internet were to cease to exist tomorrow, then the domain names would have zero value.
Games are usually handled by a single company, so they could go out of business and take the game with it - the game can't exist without the business.
The Internet won't be going away any time soon - the Internet will exist when businesses close up shop - mostly because it uses open protocols, but also because there's sufficient demand and ability to keep it running.
#1
He invested time and money in to his own personal enjoyment. He wasn't buying property, he wasn't buying shares of the company, wasn't putting his money in some sort of game bank to get some ROI.
He invested in those items as much as someone invests their Monopoly play money to buy hotels for Boardwalk.
The company probably should reimburse him if his items were lost due to their fault, and they want him to stay on as a paying customer, but nowhere in any agreement (at least none that I've seen) is there any mention that the player owns anything in the game.
To put the whole "investment" thing into perspective - what do you think would happen if the developer ended the game? They're not going to reimburse anyone their money (except maybe for that specific month), and they're sure as hell not going to compensate players for whatever items they may have had on their game character. That's because the company owns the code and the data - the player merely rents access to it.
#2
If your e-mails are so important, why let someone else host them, where they can read through them and/or have hardware failure which destroys them? Delete-after-pop should have been mandatory in the spec.
Fvck is not a word. HTH, HAND.
Even worse is when you do something like use the same function two times in a printf() line. Sometimes, for some reason, it will print the same results for both functions even if the two have different arguments.
:)
Someone told me it was due to the memory addresses and caching or something. I haven't been able to duplicate it except by accident.
It's less annoying being hit on by a member of my own sex than it is to have people try to bring you in to their religion. The former simply means someone is attracted to you; the latter means someone wants you to live your life by their rules.
Well, /.'s gotta help spread SCO's FUD so that their stock price can keep rising. Every news venue covering the story has indirectly helped contribute to the SCO exec's pockets, especially Darl McBride, for his second house.
Well, he is in Utah. He's gotta have more houses for his wives and multitudes of children.
Holy cow, I do the same thing. Like, exactly the same thing. R=4, S=5, and then I get confused about why I thought it was an f for some reason. I read that article a while back, but I didn't realize it was related (I thought it was mainly a combination of smell/sight or sight/touch, etc?)
IMO, anyone on a heart-lung machine that doesn't have backup power, has basically signed their own DNR. It's not really all that expensive (in comparison to the heart-lung machine itself).
I'm in WA, and often times I won't get any notification at all for voicemail (this was on my old i1000plus and now the i90c) for days - then someone else will leave a message and I guess it "pushes" the first one through the system.
Thanks for the tip. I had no idea it worked that way. Every time I've had it on vibrate I couldn't hear the person at all, but maybe it was just that much quieter (never thought to try it, basically).
A big part of it is that with PTT you're not so inclined to do the whole "Hello" sequence or the "Bye" sequence. You hit the PTT button, they respond "Yes?", you hit it again "Where's that pie?", they respond "On the shelf" - the end. Total of something like 15 seconds, vs however long it takes to do the hello/goodbye/etc sequence, or the risk of reaching the dreaded voicemail.
There's also no "dead air" time while people are talking - if you use digital cell phones you may know what I'm talking about. When a conversation goes silent, you can't hear anything at all - you have to take the phone from your ear and visually check the display to see if you're still connected. With PTT, there's a clear chirp at the start, and a different chirp at the end.
The Nextel I have (i90c) lets me assign "Private ID" (PTT) and regular phone numbers for each person on my list, so if something's not short enough to be asked over PTT, I can just hit a different button and call instead.
It's a sweet feature.
Unfortunately, on the Nextels, you tend to trade quality for this feature (specifically, the voicemail notification system is totally bad). But with competition, this may change.
And yet, that feature is worth charging for. Having to answer the phone within 4 rings is not always an option - sometimes it ends up a "mad rush" to get to it. With Direct Connect you don't have to rush.
If it's more efficient for them, and more efficient for me - well, then everyone wins!
"in two of its Linux clusters"
:)
"making it the largest Opteron system"
Two is also greater than one.
Why'd you re-elect him then, in November, like 10 months ago?
FWIW, Seattle is OK, unaffected.
Just trying to help.
That page appears to have been abandoned, upon initial inspection. Last news update in early 2001?
"Consider this: Microsoft has been ordered not to use the term MSCE in both the United States and Canada because Microsoft does not have the legal right to "certify" people as engineers."
cite?
And to the enjoyment of many a sys-admin, this worm is VERY JOKE, but no US President and FBI Secrets. Oh well.