I know that wasn't your point, and technobabble episodes bit early and hard. But sometimes Star Trek really does act as a vehicle for alegory. And sometimes they beat the Twilight Zone at their own game. (And sometimes they don't.)
I haven't tried to play it yet, but I would give two thumbs up to the CGA color scheme if they'd used the CGA palate: #55ff55 instead of #00ff00, et c. As someone who played old timey games on old timey hardware, seeing the VGA palate in retro games or in emulators always throws me off.
More to the point, parents don't need to play an entire game to know if it has violent content or not. Violent games are marketed as such to reach the people who want to play them. The packaging clearly demarcates a violent video game as such, from the ratings sticker to the scantily-clad chick with the machine gun and the zombies/aliens/commies. The last game I played what had a Boss Screen was the original Police Quest. Trust me, a big, blocky, fake spreadsheet would look out of place on a plasma TV hooked up to a 360.
A game of 799 hours of saccharine followed by 1 hour of harrowing bloodshed will offend its market on both ends.
Except for the super-secret bonus level in Cooking Mama, where you hack up your family with a santoku. That was da bomb.
I dont know that the results can be generalized from heterosexual attraction to homosexual attraction. Those are the ass-wells you're talking about, yes?
The problem with this is the implementation, the law clearly specifies that your cellphone provider must take an ID and your fingerprint, but the most popular provider Telcel lets you register sending a SMS with your name and birth date. Essentially rendering the registration useless
Or maybe President Calderón really is going to take up a life of bilocating petty crime a week after this law goes into effect.
It's been pointed out on/. a number of times before, so I'm not going to dig up the link, but WikiPedia explicitly states that their standard of inclusion is not truthfulness but verifiability - and they are acknowledging the difference.
I find it hilarious that the Slashdot Fortune is: "Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence." One could say the same thing about Wikipedia. (And I'm a sorta-proud, formerly regular contributor.)
That's not true - two of the three charges were child pornography charges, including one of the two in respect of the drawn images. Under current US law, drawn images are treated exactly the same as real child pornography (but only if they're either obscene or "depict an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" - anything which isn't has 1st amendment protection). Note that there is no requirement of obscenity under the second criterion; I doubt this is generally in issue, but it's possible there are circumstances under which it could be.
A rose by any other name is still an obscenity statute. I think a defendant who didn't also have real child porn might be able to bat back this law, so far as going on a sex offender list and facing lifetime "mental hospitalization" after pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Which is what separates a child porn conviction from a garden-variety obscenity conviction in the first place in most jurisdictions. I'm not going to spend all day researching this.
Kinda reminds me of how I want to redefine child molestation as "operating a motor vehicle while having a blood-alcohol level in excess of.08".
Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer. I am making a hypothetical observation, not giving anybody advice.
I think the submitter meant the chord was impossible to play. I don't know squat about guitars, but the paper seems to say that since there were three F's played by everyone, Harrison couldn't have played them on his twelve-string. Else, there'd be an even number of F's. And everyone else's opening notes are accounted for. But three F peaks is consistent with the note being played on a piano.
All the same, I'd hate to be playing the new Beatles Rock Band and have this song come up. "There isn't an octarine button on my controller!" Game over right out of the box!
Does anyone else notice that the colors (of say vegetation) bleed from one shape to the other? I might be deceiving myself, since I know the color and contrast images were taken at different resolutions.
If she does infact use her private email address for correspondence with other staff members or governmental bodies, can you really consider it a private email account anymore? I'm not asking for response from slashdotters with analogies here, but if she does infact potentially use her personal email to avoid subpoenas then why the hell should it be considered personal. She is paid by the taxpayers and they have a right to know what is going on. Why have her staff members been studying the use of personal email accounts for official business anyways?
I don't know that the e-mail account would become state property or otherwise subject to FOIA or a state equivalent, but I can imagine it being a violation of state policy or law, or Yahoo's terms of service.
Because with only three blogs in the blog-o-sphere, the millions of Americans these blogs serve really deserve government-mandated balance.
Oh, what's that, there's more than three? How many, then? Five?
I agree! With so few blogs, it's incumbent on each of them to present both sides of every issue. Of course, the ideal solution would be if we could overcome the technical problems that limit the number of blogs. Imagine a future with a hundred, or five-hundred blogs to choose from! Then people could easily find a blog that's relevant to their interest.
Call me crazy, but maybe when we have flying cars, there'll be no limit to the possible number of blogs. Maybe -- and this is WAY out there -- people could write their own blogs and we wouldn't need government-imposed balance. Oh, how I long for that day!
Erm... There's a war starting and all I see on/. is a joke article about it? This makes me sick.
War starts in Eastern Europe. Tragic, but not necessarily news for nerds. More importantly, you can read about it elsewhere.
War starts in Eastern Europe. And the single largest information broker on the Internet says the conflict is on the wrong side of the world. Either because of immediate human error or prior bad programming. Definitely related to nerdly pursuits. Unlikely to see the story elsewhere.
While I'm sure we would all like Slashdot to be our own vision of a perfect news aggregator, I've got to say their editorial decisions in what to report are consistent with their main mission.
Maybe I don't get it. I looked for Lotus Infobox on Google Images. They look like modal dialog boxes to me. What makes them different?
When I think of Lotus formatting interfaces — and I use an old version of Word Perfect at work — I think of that box with the nondescript buttons full of terse "Format codes". Whether a format attribute is explicitly applied or inherited depends on whether the name of the paragraph style is before or after any particular tersely-labled, nondescript button. Fuck that shit.
A better use of GM's time would be to detect when a driver is old, then disable the engine and lock the brakes.
Oh, ambiguous word choice. Imagine that happening once the car is on the highway. The car would redline as it goes into neutral and skid all over as the ABS starts to do the opposite of what it was originally intended to do.
The Pirate Bay's case is more a matter of not being beaten down by epithets. If they call downloaders pirates, then the downloaders wear the name pirate with pride, and take the power away from the word, draining away negative connotations and whatnot.
I disagree entirely. The intent of their name is obvious, especially after you read their responses to inquiries from U.S. media companies. They want (wanted?) to rub the legal protections (previously?) afforded by Swedish laws in the face of American media interests. Something along the lines of "Yeah. We know what we're doing would be illegal in the United States. But we aren't in the United States. So you can't touch us!"
It wasn't about reclaiming the word "pirate" from anybody else. It was about doing civil disobedience one better. Not only do they protest our government's poorly-conceived laws by breaking them, they do so outside our government's jurisdiction and broadcast it back for us as a people to rally around.
Kinda like my French-language blog: Jews for Free Speech Brandishing Swastikas. Or my Arabic blog: Drunk, Naked Women Eating Pork.
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An Outer Limits or Twilight Zone might ask, "what if we were the aliens?" and play out the consequences, or "What if all disease were cured?".
Done and done.
I know that wasn't your point, and technobabble episodes bit early and hard. But sometimes Star Trek really does act as a vehicle for alegory. And sometimes they beat the Twilight Zone at their own game. (And sometimes they don't.)
I haven't tried to play it yet, but I would give two thumbs up to the CGA color scheme if they'd used the CGA palate: #55ff55 instead of #00ff00, et c. As someone who played old timey games on old timey hardware, seeing the VGA palate in retro games or in emulators always throws me off.
Pouring gasoline on burning babies, I think.
And also to click the big X in the top right of the screen.
Meh. That one is next.
More to the point, parents don't need to play an entire game to know if it has violent content or not. Violent games are marketed as such to reach the people who want to play them. The packaging clearly demarcates a violent video game as such, from the ratings sticker to the scantily-clad chick with the machine gun and the zombies/aliens/commies. The last game I played what had a Boss Screen was the original Police Quest. Trust me, a big, blocky, fake spreadsheet would look out of place on a plasma TV hooked up to a 360.
A game of 799 hours of saccharine followed by 1 hour of harrowing bloodshed will offend its market on both ends.
Except for the super-secret bonus level in Cooking Mama, where you hack up your family with a santoku. That was da bomb.
I've actually done some research on this aswell.
I dont know that the results can be generalized from heterosexual attraction to homosexual attraction. Those are the ass-wells you're talking about, yes?
Let me be the first to offer a hearty "Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
I used to think Kelo v New London was the most disgusting eminent domain ruling, but Didden puts it to shame.
I think the Feds would gladly give up eminent domain power if it meant they could use coerced confessions. Repeal the Fifth Amendment!</sarcasm>
The problem with this is the implementation, the law clearly specifies that your cellphone provider must take an ID and your fingerprint, but the most popular provider Telcel lets you register sending a SMS with your name and birth date. Essentially rendering the registration useless
Or maybe President Calderón really is going to take up a life of bilocating petty crime a week after this law goes into effect.
It's been pointed out on /. a number of times before, so I'm not going to dig up the link, but WikiPedia explicitly states that their standard of inclusion is not truthfulness but verifiability - and they are acknowledging the difference.
I find it hilarious that the Slashdot Fortune is: "Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence." One could say the same thing about Wikipedia. (And I'm a sorta-proud, formerly regular contributor.)
Why are you scared, Rob? I think Keanu would be great as Edward.
Oh... you mean he's playing Spike.
That's not true - two of the three charges were child pornography charges, including one of the two in respect of the drawn images. Under current US law, drawn images are treated exactly the same as real child pornography (but only if they're either obscene or "depict an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" - anything which isn't has 1st amendment protection). Note that there is no requirement of obscenity under the second criterion; I doubt this is generally in issue, but it's possible there are circumstances under which it could be.
A rose by any other name is still an obscenity statute. I think a defendant who didn't also have real child porn might be able to bat back this law, so far as going on a sex offender list and facing lifetime "mental hospitalization" after pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Which is what separates a child porn conviction from a garden-variety obscenity conviction in the first place in most jurisdictions. I'm not going to spend all day researching this.
Kinda reminds me of how I want to redefine child molestation as "operating a motor vehicle while having a blood-alcohol level in excess of .08".
Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer. I am making a hypothetical observation, not giving anybody advice.
I think the submitter meant the chord was impossible to play. I don't know squat about guitars, but the paper seems to say that since there were three F's played by everyone, Harrison couldn't have played them on his twelve-string. Else, there'd be an even number of F's. And everyone else's opening notes are accounted for. But three F peaks is consistent with the note being played on a piano.
All the same, I'd hate to be playing the new Beatles Rock Band and have this song come up. "There isn't an octarine button on my controller!" Game over right out of the box!
Does anyone else notice that the colors (of say vegetation) bleed from one shape to the other? I might be deceiving myself, since I know the color and contrast images were taken at different resolutions.
It kinda reminds me of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky's pseudo-color photos of Imperial Russia.
If she does infact use her private email address for correspondence with other staff members or governmental bodies, can you really consider it a private email account anymore? I'm not asking for response from slashdotters with analogies here, but if she does infact potentially use her personal email to avoid subpoenas then why the hell should it be considered personal. She is paid by the taxpayers and they have a right to know what is going on. Why have her staff members been studying the use of personal email accounts for official business anyways?
I don't know that the e-mail account would become state property or otherwise subject to FOIA or a state equivalent, but I can imagine it being a violation of state policy or law, or Yahoo's terms of service.
I bet when the city finds this box, wherever it is, all it will have is one toggle switch labled "Magic / More Magic".
... any of you that get the chance ask Obama/McCain what they intend to do about this if elected.
Dude! Obama picked McCain as a running mate!?!? No wonder he was trying to keep his choice for Vice-President a secret.
Because with only three blogs in the blog-o-sphere, the millions of Americans these blogs serve really deserve government-mandated balance.
Oh, what's that, there's more than three? How many, then? Five?
I agree! With so few blogs, it's incumbent on each of them to present both sides of every issue. Of course, the ideal solution would be if we could overcome the technical problems that limit the number of blogs. Imagine a future with a hundred, or five-hundred blogs to choose from! Then people could easily find a blog that's relevant to their interest.
Call me crazy, but maybe when we have flying cars, there'll be no limit to the possible number of blogs. Maybe -- and this is WAY out there -- people could write their own blogs and we wouldn't need government-imposed balance. Oh, how I long for that day!
Erm... There's a war starting and all I see on /. is a joke article about it? This makes me sick.
War starts in Eastern Europe. Tragic, but not necessarily news for nerds. More importantly, you can read about it elsewhere.
War starts in Eastern Europe. And the single largest information broker on the Internet says the conflict is on the wrong side of the world. Either because of immediate human error or prior bad programming. Definitely related to nerdly pursuits. Unlikely to see the story elsewhere.
While I'm sure we would all like Slashdot to be our own vision of a perfect news aggregator, I've got to say their editorial decisions in what to report are consistent with their main mission.
Maybe I don't get it. I looked for Lotus Infobox on Google Images. They look like modal dialog boxes to me. What makes them different?
When I think of Lotus formatting interfaces — and I use an old version of Word Perfect at work — I think of that box with the nondescript buttons full of terse "Format codes". Whether a format attribute is explicitly applied or inherited depends on whether the name of the paragraph style is before or after any particular tersely-labled, nondescript button. Fuck that shit.
I hope that we're not alone. The idea that this is the only planet with sentient life anywhere in the Universe isn't just a waste of space.
Dad! Is that you? Call me on the shortwave.
Love,
Ellie
A better use of GM's time would be to detect when a driver is old, then disable the engine and lock the brakes.
Oh, ambiguous word choice. Imagine that happening once the car is on the highway. The car would redline as it goes into neutral and skid all over as the ABS starts to do the opposite of what it was originally intended to do.
This explains why I could always win when I played the computer on my Nintendo, but always lost when I played my Pentium desktop.
The real battleground will be 16-bit, I guess. Warm up that old Sega Genesis.
The Pirate Bay's case is more a matter of not being beaten down by epithets. If they call downloaders pirates, then the downloaders wear the name pirate with pride, and take the power away from the word, draining away negative connotations and whatnot.
I disagree entirely. The intent of their name is obvious, especially after you read their responses to inquiries from U.S. media companies. They want (wanted?) to rub the legal protections (previously?) afforded by Swedish laws in the face of American media interests. Something along the lines of "Yeah. We know what we're doing would be illegal in the United States. But we aren't in the United States. So you can't touch us!"
It wasn't about reclaiming the word "pirate" from anybody else. It was about doing civil disobedience one better. Not only do they protest our government's poorly-conceived laws by breaking them, they do so outside our government's jurisdiction and broadcast it back for us as a people to rally around.
Kinda like my French-language blog: Jews for Free Speech Brandishing Swastikas. Or my Arabic blog: Drunk, Naked Women Eating Pork.