Me too. I found that by double-right-clicking, I can still get the right-click menu to open. Unfortunately, double-mouse-wheel-clicking doesn't do the same (give me back single-click functionality).
I don't know what kind of vending machines you've got around you, but around me, a bag of chips from a vending machine is a "handful of chips". Maybe two handfuls, but definitely not six.
Though for all I know, the bag DrXym got from their vending machine could also be significantly larger than what I am familiar with.
They want to live their lives like everybody else. [...] Why would they contaminate the land they claim as theirs with radiation?
That explains why there are no nuclear explosions locally to them.
That doesn't explain why there are no nuclear explosions locally to us, which I believe is what dougmc was talking about. If someone is willing to fly a plane into a building with them in it, surely if they had access to a nuclear bomb they would have just walked in to a crowded area and blown themselves up with it?
Though I suppose trying to get the requisite materials across the border could be significantly more difficult than just picking up a box cutter from a local packaging store.
Serious question. What is Amazon's position as a book retailer? Because the Author's Guild seemed to have an easy time getting Amazon to change its mind with the Kindle's text-to-speech.
But maybe the Author's Guild has some sort of extra sway that the RIAA does not.
Only by 2 places. Which in some cases may matter. But when you're comparing one business to another, simply saying that one is in a higher bracket than another doesn't really tell you just how far behind the second one is.
By the way, Apple is 56 and Microsoft is 36.
It's remarkable how many people here are suddenly on the side of Time Warner Cable(!) and iPads(!!) as long as they're providing Teh Shiny New Modality.
Unless I'm missing something, all it looks like to me is a TV (an iPad) is displaying what channel a cable box (the router) is tuned to. And that, I believe, is why most people here are "supporting" TW. TW is doing the same thing they do with TVs, and the channel owners are saying "nono, it's different!"
But lets presume it is different. Lets get rid of the unused tuner* on the TV. Is it still different?
Now switch the TV out for one that can browse the web. Is it still different?
Now get rid of the cable connecting the cable box to the TV, adding a wireless transmitter/receiver to both the cable box and the TV. Is it still different?
Now put a battery on the TV. Is it still different?
That would work a lot better. As has been shown to me, I was incorrect that all states have required inspections. But all vehicles use tires that will eventually wear down and need replacing. And all tires have a stated mileage rating to them. But then you might have to balance it out with the safety concern of people now riding their tires beyond their limits in order to get the most mileage for the least cost. Maybe not consciously, but if tires suddenly shot up by $100 or so, you might think twice about if you really need to replace them.
Others have covered the "every state has inspections" fallacy.
Lol. Indeed they have. I was unaware that MD was in the minority in that and stand corrected. To everyone else, please stop repeating it! I know I was wrong now!:P
Now deal with the fact that not every mile driven in a vehicle is driven on public roads subject to tax.
This is the "gubment" we're talking about. If they don't care that the gas tax is being taxed on gas used for things other than driving on public roads, what makes you think they'd care if they bill you for mileage traveled on non-public roads? Or is there some sort of gas tax rebate you can apply for that I am also unaware of?
This is just a case of some vendor making a product and trying to get millions of units sold and/or more big brother.
Oh no doubt, as there is already a perfectly good method* of getting the kind of information they require. But I think you missed a part in TFS.
The mileage tax is being considered instead of an increase in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles equally.
*Vehicles already have odometers, and don't all states require periodic emissions inspections? If they really wanted to tax based on actual miles traveled, they can just copy down the mileage then.
No, no, just no. They could melt down the pennies and sell the raw metals for more than they asked for. Which while melting down currency is supposed to be illegal, when has something being illegal ever stopped the MAFIAA?
Think about it. Disney is keeping a pretty tight leash on all it's IP, so nothing they create could possibly ever be seen as an orphaned work. But Disney does "borrow" a lot from the public domain. If orphaned works were to be given some sort of exception in copyright law, now Disney has a larger pool to "borrow" from in their next animated movie.
Speaking as someone who is currently rewiring their house, I fail to see how such an idea would significantly alter the wiring. Instead of everything coming off the main breaker panel, you'd probably have like a 100amp breaker feeding a single A/C-to-D/C converter, which in turn feeds a sub-panel, where it is then distributed to the few devices where it makes the most sense.
But I'm certainly no expert, so maybe I've got the wrong idea of how the rest of the wiring would go once you've got your single D/C line.
On a serious note, 4.5 hours isn't that horrible. I mean yes we would like a much longer charge on the battery but at the same time it's 3D on a game system.
The idiocy of AC's comment about the kind of batteries used (I wonder if they realize the original GB also took the same "car batteries", using 4 to GG's 6), they do still have a point. For better or for worse, gone are the days of just popping in a fresh set of batteries.
It's an even smarter gambit if your intent is to support gay culture.
I'm not entirely certain Apple intends to support gay culture. I thought I recalled a previous/. story about Apple banning homosexuality in apps, but this non-/. article is all I could find.
Saying you don't choose to be gay is like saying you don't choose to be an engineer. I happen to be an engineer, but I don't believe that I had to be one, or that I could not put down my computer and pick a paintbrush or a hammer tomorrow if I wanted to.
That is the most idiotic argument against homosexuality that I have ever seen. Yes, you could choose to become an artist or a carpenter instead of an engineer. Just as I could choose to stop being a programmer and do something else. But I'd no longer be doing what I loved to do. I may have chosen my career, but I could never have chosen to love it. Loving it just came naturally.
I'd say some people still need to learn that facebook isn't some hidden away corner of the internet where what they do and say can't ever come back and bite them in the ass.
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You didn't even bother checking my links, did ya?
:P
While strictly speaking, not all games returned by those searches fit this profile, I was providing a list of games that use DOSBOX.
At some point, we have to figure out how e-tailers can and should responsibly collect sales taxes.
Weren't such things were already figured out back in the days of mail-order catalogs?
Me too. I found that by double-right-clicking, I can still get the right-click menu to open. Unfortunately, double-mouse-wheel-clicking doesn't do the same (give me back single-click functionality).
You seem to have a fairly firm idea of what isn't a scientist. Care sharing your idea on what is a scientist?
Every single game on Steam contains one of the most restrictive DRMs.
No, not every game does.
I don't know what kind of vending machines you've got around you, but around me, a bag of chips from a vending machine is a "handful of chips". Maybe two handfuls, but definitely not six.
Though for all I know, the bag DrXym got from their vending machine could also be significantly larger than what I am familiar with.
And if the code was released under a different license, suddenly it wouldn't be like that?
They want to live their lives like everybody else. [...] Why would they contaminate the land they claim as theirs with radiation?
That explains why there are no nuclear explosions locally to them.
That doesn't explain why there are no nuclear explosions locally to us, which I believe is what dougmc was talking about. If someone is willing to fly a plane into a building with them in it, surely if they had access to a nuclear bomb they would have just walked in to a crowded area and blown themselves up with it?
Though I suppose trying to get the requisite materials across the border could be significantly more difficult than just picking up a box cutter from a local packaging store.
(since it's once of the leading music retailers)
Serious question. What is Amazon's position as a book retailer? Because the Author's Guild seemed to have an easy time getting Amazon to change its mind with the Kindle's text-to-speech.
But maybe the Author's Guild has some sort of extra sway that the RIAA does not.
Google is a Fortune 200 company.
Only by 2 places. Which in some cases may matter. But when you're comparing one business to another, simply saying that one is in a higher bracket than another doesn't really tell you just how far behind the second one is.
By the way, Apple is 56 and Microsoft is 36.
Ah, thanks for helping correct my ignorance on these matters.
It's remarkable how many people here are suddenly on the side of Time Warner Cable(!) and iPads(!!) as long as they're providing Teh Shiny New Modality.
Unless I'm missing something, all it looks like to me is a TV (an iPad) is displaying what channel a cable box (the router) is tuned to. And that, I believe, is why most people here are "supporting" TW. TW is doing the same thing they do with TVs, and the channel owners are saying "nono, it's different!"
But lets presume it is different. Lets get rid of the unused tuner* on the TV. Is it still different?
Now switch the TV out for one that can browse the web. Is it still different?
Now get rid of the cable connecting the cable box to the TV, adding a wireless transmitter/receiver to both the cable box and the TV. Is it still different?
Now put a battery on the TV. Is it still different?
Now instead of delivering all channels to the cable box and letting it tune to the single channel you want displayed on your TV, lets have the cable box tell the central office the single cable channel to send it. Is it still different from what TW was doing with the router and iPad?
*I know not all TVs have tuners built in, but wanted to address all possible differences.
That would work a lot better. As has been shown to me, I was incorrect that all states have required inspections. But all vehicles use tires that will eventually wear down and need replacing. And all tires have a stated mileage rating to them. But then you might have to balance it out with the safety concern of people now riding their tires beyond their limits in order to get the most mileage for the least cost. Maybe not consciously, but if tires suddenly shot up by $100 or so, you might think twice about if you really need to replace them.
Others have covered the "every state has inspections" fallacy.
Lol. Indeed they have. I was unaware that MD was in the minority in that and stand corrected. To everyone else, please stop repeating it! I know I was wrong now! :P
Now deal with the fact that not every mile driven in a vehicle is driven on public roads subject to tax.
This is the "gubment" we're talking about. If they don't care that the gas tax is being taxed on gas used for things other than driving on public roads, what makes you think they'd care if they bill you for mileage traveled on non-public roads? Or is there some sort of gas tax rebate you can apply for that I am also unaware of?
This is just a case of some vendor making a product and trying to get millions of units sold and/or more big brother.
Oh no doubt, as there is already a perfectly good method* of getting the kind of information they require. But I think you missed a part in TFS.
The mileage tax is being considered instead of an increase in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles equally.
*Vehicles already have odometers, and don't all states require periodic emissions inspections? If they really wanted to tax based on actual miles traveled, they can just copy down the mileage then.
No, no, just no. They could melt down the pennies and sell the raw metals for more than they asked for. Which while melting down currency is supposed to be illegal, when has something being illegal ever stopped the MAFIAA?
Even if the thing that they are doing stems from ignorance? Like, say, God says being gay is bad, so therefore I must try to be straight?
I cannot at this time think of any other reasons to try and be straight, though if anyone else can come up with any, I'd be curious to hear them.
Think about it. Disney is keeping a pretty tight leash on all it's IP, so nothing they create could possibly ever be seen as an orphaned work. But Disney does "borrow" a lot from the public domain. If orphaned works were to be given some sort of exception in copyright law, now Disney has a larger pool to "borrow" from in their next animated movie.
Speaking as someone who is currently rewiring their house, I fail to see how such an idea would significantly alter the wiring. Instead of everything coming off the main breaker panel, you'd probably have like a 100amp breaker feeding a single A/C-to-D/C converter, which in turn feeds a sub-panel, where it is then distributed to the few devices where it makes the most sense.
But I'm certainly no expert, so maybe I've got the wrong idea of how the rest of the wiring would go once you've got your single D/C line.
On a serious note, 4.5 hours isn't that horrible. I mean yes we would like a much longer charge on the battery but at the same time it's 3D on a game system.
Sounded like 4.5 hours was only with the 3D off.
The idiocy of AC's comment about the kind of batteries used (I wonder if they realize the original GB also took the same "car batteries", using 4 to GG's 6), they do still have a point. For better or for worse, gone are the days of just popping in a fresh set of batteries.
It's an even smarter gambit if your intent is to support gay culture.
I'm not entirely certain Apple intends to support gay culture. I thought I recalled a previous /. story about Apple banning homosexuality in apps, but this non-/. article is all I could find.
http://gawker.com/#!5563119/apples-gay-culture-bans-dont-make-it-moral-or--pure
Saying you don't choose to be gay is like saying you don't choose to be an engineer. I happen to be an engineer, but I don't believe that I had to be one, or that I could not put down my computer and pick a paintbrush or a hammer tomorrow if I wanted to.
That is the most idiotic argument against homosexuality that I have ever seen. Yes, you could choose to become an artist or a carpenter instead of an engineer. Just as I could choose to stop being a programmer and do something else. But I'd no longer be doing what I loved to do. I may have chosen my career, but I could never have chosen to love it. Loving it just came naturally.
or blocking teens from drinking with parents' permission
Just FYI, it would seem that most states don't do that.
Nothing to learn == !informative.
I'd say some people still need to learn that facebook isn't some hidden away corner of the internet where what they do and say can't ever come back and bite them in the ass.