In my three years of XBox360 I had the RoD once two months ago. MS Website -> file request -> prepaid shipping box arrived next day -> UPS store -> XBox 360 with long letter of profuse apology and one free month of XBox Live four days later.
Here's a chunk of perl script I wrote (years ago) that determines if $text matches any of the styles of library call number that I've ever encountered.
Slashcode is interestingly interpreting my formatting, but you should get the gist.
$text =~ /
^[A-Z]+ # starts with at least one capital letter
\s? # followed by an optional space
\d+ # followed by one or more digits/x
or $text =~ /
^\d+ # starts with one or more digits
\. # followed by a single decimal/x
or $text =~ /
\d+ # starts with one or more digits
\s # and a space/x
or $text =~ /
Thesis # starts with "Thesis".+ # with one or more characters of any kind
\d{4} # then four numbers - year
\s+ # separated by at least one space
[A-Z]+ # from one or more capital letters
\d+ # followed by one or more numbers/xi # case ignored here in case we run into THESIS or thesis
or $text =~ /
\d+ # starts with one or more digits
\- # connected with a dash
\d+ # to one or more following digits/x
or $text =~ /
\d+ # starts with one or more digits
# followed by a space
[A-Z]* #followed by zero or more capital letters
\d+ # followed by one or more digits/x
The problem is that science education doesn't teach the controversy.
By that I mean the actual and anachronistic controversy about the age of the Earth. It was a hotly debated issue in the 1800s and many great scientists (including the great Lord Kelvin) *wanted* the Earth to be younger than it actually is and they fought the data hard. In the end the data won, thanks to the doggedness of Claire Patterson.
If we tought kids the whole story behind the development of current fact then we'd see a lot less of this creationism BS. As it is, we just say "The universe is 14 some billion years old." and leave it to them to take it on faith. Instead of detailing the facts that lead to that conclusion we just give them the choice of two seemingly arbitrary data sets.
Agreed. I switched when 9.2 came out and I realized that Opera wasn't the same Opera I had dismissed years ago.
Fast, stable, and an impressively awesome feature set. Opera's all element zooming and ease at switching from author to user mode makes browsing even sites with horrible UI's painless.
I don't recall having any issue when I started using the mighty mouse, so I guess Apple just used a lot of us finger-lifters for their usability studies.
Of course, it doesn't really make any sense. Why did they go to all that effort to piss off any segment of the computing population? Just put two (three!) physical buttons in the thing.
No it can't. It can tell which fingers are touching it. But it cannot tell the difference between pressing with your right finger or your left finger if both fingers are in contact. To perform a right click with the Mighty Mouse you have to lift up with your left finger and click with the right.
I didn't believe you so I grabbed my mighty mouse and right clicked: worked fine, no issue. Then I realized that my left finger was slightly lifted. I actually had to concentrate to keep my left finger down while I right clicked to see the issue you are complaining about.
Every Department gets a budget. If they don't fully use that budget then the next year their budget will get cut.
That was 30 years ago. Unless your place is the one right in front of the "End of the World" sign, it's not been true for at least 10, more probably 20 years. But it's a well-beloved Urban Myth and not going away that easily.
That's absolutely not true in the university library where I work (a fairly well-known institution). More than once the head of our library has had to find little things to blow money on so we don't get our budget cut.
Just in case you think that she's falling into the myth: one year we didn't use all of our student hours budget (lots of sick time taken), the next year our new budget was for the new lower amount. D'oh!
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Why the quote marks around "grill"? Is it not really a grill?
In other words:
"I learned all this once, stop all further development here please."
The Wii does, the XBox360 doesn't.
Yeah and you have to use a controller to tell your game avatar what actions to take. Sheesh, all these videogames are exactly the same.
Wow, troll. So why am I replying?
In my three years of XBox360 I had the RoD once two months ago. MS Website -> file request -> prepaid shipping box arrived next day -> UPS store -> XBox 360 with long letter of profuse apology and one free month of XBox Live four days later.
Yeah, it's a rough life.
Smooth top or bump?
Yeah, after the fourth or fifth time I found *yet another* strange exception to my increasingly complex rule/logic I figured that it was worth it.
Honestly when I first decided to document it I didn't even know it was possible to do it inline.
And, huh, looking at it again the code is missing a bunch of ^'s (starts with).
Here's a chunk of perl script I wrote (years ago) that determines if $text matches any of the styles of library call number that I've ever encountered.
Slashcode is interestingly interpreting my formatting, but you should get the gist.
$text =~ /
^[A-Z]+ # starts with at least one capital letter
\s? # followed by an optional space
\d+ # followed by one or more digits
or $text =~ /
^\d+ # starts with one or more digits
\. # followed by a single decimal
or $text =~ /
\d+ # starts with one or more digits
\s # and a space
or $text =~ /
Thesis # starts with "Thesis"
\d{4} # then four numbers - year
\s+ # separated by at least one space
[A-Z]+ # from one or more capital letters
\d+ # followed by one or more numbers
or $text =~ /
\d+ # starts with one or more digits
\- # connected with a dash
\d+ # to one or more following digits
or $text =~ /
\d+ # starts with one or more digits
# followed by a space
[A-Z]* #followed by zero or more capital letters
\d+ # followed by one or more digits
You know, you don't *have* to buy the bigger houses if you don't want.
What you really need to do is start a lucrative fruit importing business.
1. Find a friend with Animal Crossing whose town has a different native fruit tree (this is for the DS version)
2. Link up and go to their town and grab as much fruit as your greedy hands can carry
3. Plant them back in your town, harvest, profit!
Soon you too will be a furniture snob: "Ewww I can't buy that couch, it doesn't match my design scheme."
Speaking as a state government employee, kick ass! Time for another coffee break!
So who's the captain in this analogy? Who is supervising the offloading? Who is in charge of the telegraph?
Are you implying that there is a secret cabal in power that is trying to keep the ship afloat/manage the evacuation? Awesome!
The problem is that science education doesn't teach the controversy.
By that I mean the actual and anachronistic controversy about the age of the Earth. It was a hotly debated issue in the 1800s and many great scientists (including the great Lord Kelvin) *wanted* the Earth to be younger than it actually is and they fought the data hard. In the end the data won, thanks to the doggedness of Claire Patterson.
If we tought kids the whole story behind the development of current fact then we'd see a lot less of this creationism BS. As it is, we just say "The universe is 14 some billion years old." and leave it to them to take it on faith. Instead of detailing the facts that lead to that conclusion we just give them the choice of two seemingly arbitrary data sets.
That's only because you grew up on Asteroids.
Similar to the Mega Man 9 effect.
Shallow is as shallow does, sir.
Agreed. I switched when 9.2 came out and I realized that Opera wasn't the same Opera I had dismissed years ago.
Fast, stable, and an impressively awesome feature set. Opera's all element zooming and ease at switching from author to user mode makes browsing even sites with horrible UI's painless.
NO NO NO NO NO NO!! It is NOT the federal governments job to mold a citizen's legal behavior!!!
Two points:
* de-segregation
* Easter Island is the end result of not modifying human behavior
It's cool that Bond films at least partially stick close enough to the near future that the gadgets are coolâ¦
Like cars that bend light around them?
Actually Jefferson explicited changed that right to "property" to "the pursuit of happiness".
Soâ¦never driven on a public road or gone to public school? We are a socialist nation with some capitalistic tendancies.
That doesn't have to be.
On my 800Mhz G3 iBook, OS X got faster and more responsive from Jaguar to Panther to Tiger.
Sadly, Leopard doesn't support my hardware.
Oh please, they were both annoying. Lisa went crazy and was doing housekeeping for Rick just to be near him.
The only cool couple in that show was Max and his Zentradi babe.
I don't recall having any issue when I started using the mighty mouse, so I guess Apple just used a lot of us finger-lifters for their usability studies.
Of course, it doesn't really make any sense. Why did they go to all that effort to piss off any segment of the computing population? Just put two (three!) physical buttons in the thing.
No it can't. It can tell which fingers are touching it. But it cannot tell the difference between pressing with your right finger or your left finger if both fingers are in contact. To perform a right click with the Mighty Mouse you have to lift up with your left finger and click with the right.
I didn't believe you so I grabbed my mighty mouse and right clicked: worked fine, no issue. Then I realized that my left finger was slightly lifted. I actually had to concentrate to keep my left finger down while I right clicked to see the issue you are complaining about.
Every Department gets a budget. If they don't fully use that budget then the next year their budget will get cut.
That was 30 years ago. Unless your place is the one right in front of the "End of the World" sign, it's not been true for at least 10, more probably 20 years. But it's a well-beloved Urban Myth and not going away that easily.
That's absolutely not true in the university library where I work (a fairly well-known institution). More than once the head of our library has had to find little things to blow money on so we don't get our budget cut.
Just in case you think that she's falling into the myth: one year we didn't use all of our student hours budget (lots of sick time taken), the next year our new budget was for the new lower amount. D'oh!
We call it "Dysoning" now. Until it arrived, you could only get that kind of vacuuming with a central house system.
But it was only ever used for the FBI warnings. Even Disney DVDs had skippable commercials and trailers.
Haliburton is doing alright. So is Blackwater.