My understanding is that you can buy tax stamps for your drugs (and you really CAN), but that doesn't make them legal. It just means you're facing one fewer charge when they bust you for possession and intent to distribute.
Thank you for adding that. Why shooting guns at people, for some people, is less shocking than swearing at them confuses the heck out of me. And gods forbid that a nipple enter the scene - Maybe we can filter that nasty part out by digitally inserting a carefully placed exploding head.
Hear hear. I'm assuming that the third dimension is 2, just like every 3-d display I've seen (they ALWAYS tailor these thing for people with only 2 eyes...), but one way or another they need to show different images to each eye. We've done the colored cellophane thing. We've done the shudder thing. We've done the separate display thing. We've done the vertical/horizontal polarization thing. We've done (and are doing for modern movies) the horizontal polarization thing with reversed polarity wave plates in front. The only system I've seen that didn't require glasses required you to stay in one place and stay very still while they use some special method to present different images to each eye.
360 sounds neat, but I'm having trouble even speculating. WTF are they doing?
To be fair, lowering sample rates/bit depth IS a form of lossy compression, just a very crude one. Some people prefer sounds they're accustomed to to audio reproduction accuracy (e.g. vinyl vice CD or tube-amps vice solid-state).
I don't think that we should attempt communication communication with the martians at all until they contact us. From what I've read, they can grok our meaning without much trouble (partially due to psychic abilities). However, their lack of adherence to our conservative moral platforms and religious dogma may doom our relations to tragic failure...
I can run PGP and have it generate primes for me within a few seconds that are sufficient for decent encryption, and they don't need to be a gazillion digits long.
I agree with you entirely. The debate, however, is in the definitions of "sufficient" and "decent". For most needs, you need far fewer than a gazillion digits. For national security type stuff, a gazillion digits may be appropriate. For a math/crypto nerd, even a bazillion gazillion digits will never be enough.
I think I just figured out the single reason that I would ever pay $6 for a soda.
Because they fill the cup with crushed ice. When you're sitting in front of me watching a movie on your laptop and you feel chunks of crushed ice hitting you in the back of the head or getting bounced down the back of your shirt? At least know that I shelled out big-time for them.
Stick with Spybot, Malwarebytes, HijackThis and a decent backup like Nod32, Avast or AVG, imho.
But do any of those have "gaming-mode"? That sounds kind of sexy. When you're out on the web and engaging in especially risky behavior that could earn you an infection, you're in "gaming-mode" - Yeah, right.
"Mom! Don't you know how to knock??? I could have been in gaming mode!"
Followed by the pop-up in the lower-right corner that annoyed me to the point that I stripped Ad-Aware off of my system despite previously having shelled out for Ad-Aware Pro (one of the previous versions):
Thank you for using Ad-Aware. To further protect your system, please click here to visit Lavasoft and upgrade to Ad-Aware Professional Edition.
Inspired by the biological concept and usefulness of genotypes, computer science employs simulated phenotypes in genetic programming and evolutionary algorithms. Such techniques can help evolve mathematical solutions to certain types of otherwise difficult problems.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that once it's on Wikipedia you need to fight it there or give up the ship...
A scale from 1 to 10 with 4 being the most difficult. 7 sounds about right - More difficult than installing programming tools on a regular computer or laptop and restricting the kid's permissions, but less difficult than naturally breeding a man-bear-pig.
It's not really the same. If you started watching them when you were 4, you most likely had no idea that what they were doing was in any way ground breaking or revolutionary. It was just normal, funny TV. And the outrage from many parents that a prime-time cartoon show would do something as egregiously offensive as to portray a fourth-grader using the phrases "Eat my shorts" or "Don't have a cow, man" probably wasn't even on your radar. Before hitting prime time, The Simpsons could only be found on The Tracey Ulman Show which, IIRC, was on fairly late at night and was clearly not aimed at kids.
The fact that they were funny was only part of the reason they were such a big deal. I'd say that anyone that was under 8 or so when they hit the scene probably had a very different experience becoming familiar with the Simpson family than someone just a handful of years older.
You'd never heard of MS before 1992? MS-DOS was a pretty darned popular home OS through most of the 80's. Wikipedia tells me that it was the most popular DOS variant and the most popular personal computer OS at the time (which is what I remember too, but I was only 4 when it came out). You might not have known what MS stood for, but MS-DOS was everywhere. Where were you hiding?
I can't google numbers (gaming sites are blocked here at work), but my gut instinct tells me that, even if the Wii is the most popularly sold gaming platform, it probably isn't the most platform for gaming online. If true, that would make it a tougher target despite containing a similar processor.
Anyone with a citation to support or debunk my guess, please share.
No way would that be a bad idea - That would be the PPV episode. I'd tune in just out of curiosity as to what the dessert would be - Sweet-bread sorbet? Liver mousse?
"The winner will get the privilege of having dinner tomorrow with me. The loser will also get to come, but I need you to arrive 4 hours early after bathing in Worcestershire for 3 hours."
OK, that may be the most ignorant, presumptive thing I've read all day. I've seen prisons and I work in a cubicle. The two situations are nothing alike.
Prisoners get access to a gym and exercise yard...
...should always have been done so under supervision and with logging...
I agree with the logging side, but if they give him Admin then all the log will contain is him locating and killing the logging script (This CAN be avoided, but I doubt that they would have gone through that much trouble even if they were logging). The supervision probably would have been pointless though. More than likely, it would be a trained guard standing over him watching him do EXACTLY what he did. And, if asked what he was doing, he'd explain that he was adjusting permissions so that everything would work. If they hired somebody to supervise that could accurately determine whether he was being malicious, they could probably just ask the supervisor to do the job.
Hell, if you ask me to supervise an inmate in a chem lab while he brews up aspirin and he's actually making nitroglycerin, I'd probably stand there and ignorantly watch him make nitroglycerin.
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I drive wearing night-vision goggles, you insensitive clod!
Now... The goggles... They will do nothing.
Do you have a citation for that?
My understanding is that you can buy tax stamps for your drugs (and you really CAN), but that doesn't make them legal. It just means you're facing one fewer charge when they bust you for possession and intent to distribute.
By that logic is it preferable for a movie to depict somebody shooting someone else with a gun than with a spit wad?
That was no oversight - That was a well-deserved, "Up yours, we don't have the resources to waste on your stupid crusade."
As implied above, how deeply this particular oversight sinks will be determined by waiver applications from folks like Jeep and Harley Davidson.
Thank you for adding that. Why shooting guns at people, for some people, is less shocking than swearing at them confuses the heck out of me. And gods forbid that a nipple enter the scene - Maybe we can filter that nasty part out by digitally inserting a carefully placed exploding head.
Hear hear. I'm assuming that the third dimension is 2, just like every 3-d display I've seen (they ALWAYS tailor these thing for people with only 2 eyes...), but one way or another they need to show different images to each eye. We've done the colored cellophane thing. We've done the shudder thing. We've done the separate display thing. We've done the vertical/horizontal polarization thing. We've done (and are doing for modern movies) the horizontal polarization thing with reversed polarity wave plates in front. The only system I've seen that didn't require glasses required you to stay in one place and stay very still while they use some special method to present different images to each eye.
360 sounds neat, but I'm having trouble even speculating. WTF are they doing?
To be fair, lowering sample rates/bit depth IS a form of lossy compression, just a very crude one. Some people prefer sounds they're accustomed to to audio reproduction accuracy (e.g. vinyl vice CD or tube-amps vice solid-state).
I don't think that we should attempt communication communication with the martians at all until they contact us. From what I've read, they can grok our meaning without much trouble (partially due to psychic abilities). However, their lack of adherence to our conservative moral platforms and religious dogma may doom our relations to tragic failure...
I can run PGP and have it generate primes for me within a few seconds that are sufficient for decent encryption, and they don't need to be a gazillion digits long.
I agree with you entirely. The debate, however, is in the definitions of "sufficient" and "decent". For most needs, you need far fewer than a gazillion digits. For national security type stuff, a gazillion digits may be appropriate. For a math/crypto nerd, even a bazillion gazillion digits will never be enough.
I think I just figured out the single reason that I would ever pay $6 for a soda.
Because they fill the cup with crushed ice. When you're sitting in front of me watching a movie on your laptop and you feel chunks of crushed ice hitting you in the back of the head or getting bounced down the back of your shirt? At least know that I shelled out big-time for them.
On a scale from "engine" to "giant Hello Kitty decal for the rear window", it scores about a "windshield wipers on the headlights".
Stick with Spybot, Malwarebytes, HijackThis and a decent backup like Nod32, Avast or AVG, imho.
But do any of those have "gaming-mode"? That sounds kind of sexy. When you're out on the web and engaging in especially risky behavior that could earn you an infection, you're in "gaming-mode" - Yeah, right.
"Mom! Don't you know how to knock??? I could have been in gaming mode!"
Followed by the pop-up in the lower-right corner that annoyed me to the point that I stripped Ad-Aware off of my system despite previously having shelled out for Ad-Aware Pro (one of the previous versions):
Thank you for using Ad-Aware. To further protect your system, please click here to visit Lavasoft and upgrade to Ad-Aware Professional Edition.
I like their product, but I hate being badgered.
From Wikipedia:
Inspired by the biological concept and usefulness of genotypes, computer science employs simulated phenotypes in genetic programming and evolutionary algorithms. Such techniques can help evolve mathematical solutions to certain types of otherwise difficult problems.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that once it's on Wikipedia you need to fight it there or give up the ship...
Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say.
People just liked it better that way.
Right - She's self-employed. Just like that guy you walk-past every day who holds up a cardboard sign asking for help and eats dog food.
In fairness though, it sounds like his business model is better than hers.
Memo to self - If I'm ever unfortunate enough to need unemployment, do NOT let ANYONE pay me for ANYTHING.
A scale from 1 to 10 with 4 being the most difficult. 7 sounds about right - More difficult than installing programming tools on a regular computer or laptop and restricting the kid's permissions, but less difficult than naturally breeding a man-bear-pig.
This whole conversation is ridiculous.
She would never leave Fred.
It's not really the same. If you started watching them when you were 4, you most likely had no idea that what they were doing was in any way ground breaking or revolutionary. It was just normal, funny TV. And the outrage from many parents that a prime-time cartoon show would do something as egregiously offensive as to portray a fourth-grader using the phrases "Eat my shorts" or "Don't have a cow, man" probably wasn't even on your radar. Before hitting prime time, The Simpsons could only be found on The Tracey Ulman Show which, IIRC, was on fairly late at night and was clearly not aimed at kids.
The fact that they were funny was only part of the reason they were such a big deal. I'd say that anyone that was under 8 or so when they hit the scene probably had a very different experience becoming familiar with the Simpson family than someone just a handful of years older.
You'd never heard of MS before 1992? MS-DOS was a pretty darned popular home OS through most of the 80's. Wikipedia tells me that it was the most popular DOS variant and the most popular personal computer OS at the time (which is what I remember too, but I was only 4 when it came out). You might not have known what MS stood for, but MS-DOS was everywhere. Where were you hiding?
I can't google numbers (gaming sites are blocked here at work), but my gut instinct tells me that, even if the Wii is the most popularly sold gaming platform, it probably isn't the most platform for gaming online. If true, that would make it a tougher target despite containing a similar processor.
Anyone with a citation to support or debunk my guess, please share.
No way would that be a bad idea - That would be the PPV episode. I'd tune in just out of curiosity as to what the dessert would be - Sweet-bread sorbet? Liver mousse?
"The winner will get the privilege of having dinner tomorrow with me. The loser will also get to come, but I need you to arrive 4 hours early after bathing in Worcestershire for 3 hours."
Still, I think it is comparable to cubical life.
OK, that may be the most ignorant, presumptive thing I've read all day. I've seen prisons and I work in a cubicle. The two situations are nothing alike.
Prisoners get access to a gym and exercise yard...
...should always have been done so under supervision and with logging...
I agree with the logging side, but if they give him Admin then all the log will contain is him locating and killing the logging script (This CAN be avoided, but I doubt that they would have gone through that much trouble even if they were logging). The supervision probably would have been pointless though. More than likely, it would be a trained guard standing over him watching him do EXACTLY what he did. And, if asked what he was doing, he'd explain that he was adjusting permissions so that everything would work. If they hired somebody to supervise that could accurately determine whether he was being malicious, they could probably just ask the supervisor to do the job.
Hell, if you ask me to supervise an inmate in a chem lab while he brews up aspirin and he's actually making nitroglycerin, I'd probably stand there and ignorantly watch him make nitroglycerin.
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