Hey, it's news: two down, several hundred million to go...
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Yes, but where are the out-takes/gag reels/smeg ups? (The Easter Eggs don't count.) I haven't explored the Appendices for Return of the King yet, but I didn't see anything that looked promising on the menu maps in the booklet. I know the footage exists - I saw one at a conference where Aragorn complains to Theoden about being turned into action figures and merchandising (from memory, it was mentioned in the cast commentary on The Two Towers.) There must be a DVD's worth of material from the three films...
By the look of the photos, the layout is much the same as a revolving restaurant.
The plumbing etc. is housed in the centre non-rotating core of the building; there is no need for fancy seals, because the pipes and fittings don't move. The windows and outside balcony are also fixed; the bit that rotates is the floor between the outer wall and the inner core.
The rotating restaurant I visited turned quite slowly - around 2 RPM from memory. That's fast enough that you go around about three times during dinner, but slow enough that you don't really notice the movement unless you look at the window frames (particularly if you leave something on the window sill...) It's also fast enough that going to the toilet and returning to your now table which has moved in the meantime is rather disorientating (or perhaps that was the wine.:*)
What is this? Some kind of marketing scam by Slashdot and PCPro, a way to "entice" people to purchase the magazine or something to get the real article?
This is Slashdot; nobody - not even the editors - read the articles before posting...
911 was originally implemented when the majority, if not everyone, still had pulse dial.
So was 000 (also used in Australia), for precisely the same reason - difficult to accidentally call due to misdialling or a fault in the phone/line/exchange. (New Zealand uses 111 - their pulse system is backwards compared to Australia and the US: ten pulses for 0, nine for 1, eight for 2 etc.)
I agree - but my LAN buddies took one look at the graphics refused to play it even though the game play is more fun than eye-candy games they did play. Go figure.
P.S. Is there a way to save the settings of your favourite server in addition to the map? The settings are just as important for the game play, and many of us don't have the time, skill or patience to fine tune the default settings to suit a given map.
ACS's product is "SciFinder Scholar". Had Google called their's "Google SciFinder", ACS would have grounds for complaint - this is just a nuisance lawsuit.
Taking time lapse photos is "monitoring".
From Dictionary.com:
monitor v tr.... 3. To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information.
Nice theory, except that the camera is facing towards the Sun (look at the shadow of the wharf on the water), and there is no sign of a contrail or shadow visible on the before and after pictures (taken at 15 second intervals.)
The Sun-angle also rules out a crepuscular (or anti-crepuscular) ray.
You can speed up sync's by excluding categories that you aren't interested in e.g. games. This was added to a recent, probably "unstable", version of portage - this also has various sync speed-up changes that may help.
How do these figures compare with mobile (aka cell) phones being struck by lightning? I believe that's the correct unit of measure, and is probably more likely.
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It sounds like a breakfast cereal.
Obligatory Python sketch link for those who don't get the joke.
Hey, it's news: two down, several hundred million to go...
Yes, but where are the out-takes/gag reels/smeg ups? (The Easter Eggs don't count.) I haven't explored the Appendices for Return of the King yet, but I didn't see anything that looked promising on the menu maps in the booklet. I know the footage exists - I saw one at a conference where Aragorn complains to Theoden about being turned into action figures and merchandising (from memory, it was mentioned in the cast commentary on The Two Towers.) There must be a DVD's worth of material from the three films...
"di-dah di-di-dit di-dah-di-dit di-di-dah-dah-di-dit"?
Revolutions Per Meal? (Yes, I meant RPH - doh!)
By the look of the photos, the layout is much the same as a revolving restaurant.
:*)
The plumbing etc. is housed in the centre non-rotating core of the building; there is no need for fancy seals, because the pipes and fittings don't move. The windows and outside balcony are also fixed; the bit that rotates is the floor between the outer wall and the inner core.
The rotating restaurant I visited turned quite slowly - around 2 RPM from memory. That's fast enough that you go around about three times during dinner, but slow enough that you don't really notice the movement unless you look at the window frames (particularly if you leave something on the window sill...) It's also fast enough that going to the toilet and returning to your now table which has moved in the meantime is rather disorientating (or perhaps that was the wine.
Where's the user error?
Installing Windows is the error.
What is this? Some kind of marketing scam by Slashdot and PCPro, a way to "entice" people to purchase the magazine or something to get the real article?
This is Slashdot; nobody - not even the editors - read the articles before posting...
The ipod has a distinct bass roll-off _when being used with headphones from the headphone jack_.
YIMV. (Your Impedence May Vary.)
911 was originally implemented when the majority, if not everyone, still had pulse dial.
So was 000 (also used in Australia), for precisely the same reason - difficult to accidentally call due to misdialling or a fault in the phone/line/exchange. (New Zealand uses 111 - their pulse system is backwards compared to Australia and the US: ten pulses for 0, nine for 1, eight for 2 etc.)
I misread the title... A self-correcting pogo stick would be cool, though.
I think I've heard this one. "... The crash occurred precisely on the Israel-Lebanon border. In which state do they bury the survivors?"
I agree - but my LAN buddies took one look at the graphics refused to play it even though the game play is more fun than eye-candy games they did play. Go figure.
P.S. Is there a way to save the settings of your favourite server in addition to the map? The settings are just as important for the game play, and many of us don't have the time, skill or patience to fine tune the default settings to suit a given map.
ACS's product is "SciFinder Scholar". Had Google called their's "Google SciFinder", ACS would have grounds for complaint - this is just a nuisance lawsuit.
What is this world coming to?
Hopefully its senses - but I'm not sure that I'll see it in my lifetime.
Taking time lapse photos is "monitoring". ... 3. To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information.
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From Dictionary.com:
monitor v tr.
P.S. Ironic
Nice theory, except that the camera is facing towards the Sun (look at the shadow of the wharf on the water), and there is no sign of a contrail or shadow visible on the before and after pictures (taken at 15 second intervals.)
The Sun-angle also rules out a crepuscular (or anti-crepuscular) ray.
They're news reports of the same fireball reported on the east coast of Australia, two weeks after the streak photo was taken in Darwin.
Move along - nothing to see here.
Pitty emerge sync's take so long though.
You can speed up sync's by excluding categories that you aren't interested in e.g. games. This was added to a recent, probably "unstable", version of portage - this also has various sync speed-up changes that may help.
And given that "Earth and Mars have been swapping spit for billions of years", chances are it has already happened.
... and fear that the locals will dig up their phone lines for the copper.
I guess that's one way to get telcos to install FTTH (Fibre To The Home) - do they outsource?
Who needs robots to dispose of ordnance when you can just throw stones at it?
(To dispose of ordinance, you need a lawyer. On second thoughts, that would work with ordnance, too...)
How do these figures compare with mobile (aka cell) phones being struck by lightning? I believe that's the correct unit of measure, and is probably more likely.
Couldn't they just have arranged an "accident" for him?
They did - hence the news reports... $20M to silence a critic is a good deal, but to discredit them as well it's a bargain.