Just to be pedantic, I'm pretty sure it's actually 28 days. The only website reference I can find is here. And it is for the uk, but I'm pretty sure my TIVO says the same thing, and I live in the U.S.
Of course how are you going to know if you like the entire album without buying it. It's not like they ever play entire albums on the radio (well maybe very rarely), and if you have a friend that has the album, it's already fair use to have them make a copy for you right? So what are left with download the songs off your favorite napster-clone, and then if you like them buy them online for 99c a track? Doesn't sound likely.
If Natural Selection were intelligent then the dinosaurs would not be extinct, nor would the miryad of complex and promising creatures of the Edicarian Fauna. Intelligent design would not waste such potential sources of design diversity.
You could just as easily say, that if the designers of programming languages were intelligent, COBOL would not be going extinct. (COBOL is probably not the best choice, since it is still around, but I imagine the idea is clear)
Hell, let's just coat the outside of the space station with N*Sync members then. I bet if we slice them real thin, we could get the job done. And if not, well, there are lots of other boy-bands around.
The ultimate feature in these cases is portability, not compactness. With regards to cell phones and laptops the size is not as important as the fact that it is portable at all. Of course a smaller size implies greater portability when it is something you have to carry around with you.
SUVs however are self-propelling, so a larger sized SUV is only slightly less portable than a smaller car.
I recently put together a computer with a EnerMax case/power supply and a SANYO Dragon Lite motherboard, and even with the hard-switch (on the back of the case) switched to off, their was a green led on the motherboard glowing. I had to unplug the powerstrip from the wall to get it totally off.
Once when setting up a shared drive between a linux and an old dos machine (using pc-nfs), we got an error message something along the lines of "psycho-analysis suggested". Nice and obscure, luckily through a google search we identified that this meant we had to use the "insecure" option. I guess some coder at 3am thought that would be cute...
Lets all ignore the fact that every time there was an eclipse that the shadow was round The fact that an eclipse gives a round shadow only proves that the moon is round, which would already be obvious to anyone that had looked up at night.
You might be interested in these k5 articles written by a geek volunteering in Kenya through a program called VSO. Here is part one and here is part two.
hence the reason why we're one of the last countries in the world to allow captial punishment for mentally retarded individuals.
We are not one of the last countries in the world to allow capital punishment for mentally retarded individuals, we are just one of the last civilized countries in the world to allow for it.
One of the scripters for TRIBES built a hud that allowed you to play tetris during slow moments of the game. You can download it here . I don't think it was actually used much, but if your team was seriously destroying the opponents, then your defense might not see much action. There were also p0rn huds (called "swim-suit huds") which basically allowed you to setup a slide show in your hud area.
Actually, if you were only getting 3-4 calls a week, then your asking to be put on the DNC list was probably pretty effective. I live in Colorado, and I regularly get 4+ calls a night. I have caller ID, so I never answered the phone unless it's someone I know, so I never asked to be put on DNC lists, and I think since they never could reach me they just kept trying.
I asked to be put on the statewide DNC list a couple weeks ago, and it should go into effect November 1st for me. I can't wait.
Removing the -s ending from words is an example of stemming. Another example is removing -ed from past tense verbs. In general removing any inflections from words.
Traditionally this has not always worked as well as might be expected. The example I always see used, is for stocks & stockings. Both end up with the same stem "stock". When search engines first started using stemming, someone who was searching for stocks, would get results to pages that had porn ("stockings"). This is just the most common example, and I imagine other common examples exist. In general, stemming has not been found to improve the quality of searches because of words such as these that share the same stem, but have dissimiliar meanings.
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Damn. As soon as I saw that headline on the Onion, I said to myself: "Next time there is a RIAA story on Slashdot, I've got to remember to karma-whore out this slashdot link." And now you've beaten me to it. My day is ruined.
Have we seen a spike in violence in children since video games became more prevalent? Yes. But why is the question.
Actually no we have not seen a spike in youth violance. Homicide rates for young males began to decline in 1994 and dropped 34% between 1993 and 1997 (from 34.0 to 22.6/100,000). In 1997, the rate of homicide among males 15-19 years of age was 22.6/100,000 -- a decline of 12.4% in one year.
It is probably true that media reporting of youth violance has increased along the same timeline as the increase in prevalence of video games, but researching that statistic is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'd agree. Even though people made fun of the x-box controller when it first came out, even most rabid anti-ms zealots would admit that one thing that MS does well, is creates controllers (mostly mice). Now that I've used the xbox controller for a while, the PS2 controller seems like a little toy, too light, too small.
I will admit however that I favor the smaller (s version) xbox controller.
Interesting point that language is constantly evolving, but I don't think that the example you gave is a good one.
Check out this page or
this one for a rebuttal. Both pages are discussions on the origin of "OK" and although there is not a general consensus, neither page even mentions that "OK" could be a shortened version of "okay".
I realize mage and warrior were offered, and I've never played an MMORPG so, maybe this won't make sense, but it seems to me that this is a way for there to be some tradesmen in the game that are being played by real people instead of by the AI. I mean who really wants to start an account and work their way up to a master blacksmith. Sitting in front of your computer 20 hours a week for a couple months making virtual weapons and armor, how many people in the game really do that?
But, it could be fun to play a blacksmith that was already powerful. I imagine you could make really high quality, or maybe even magical or artistic items. That could be fun, but working your way up to that point by churning out 100 two-handed swords sounds more like work.
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Just to be pedantic, I'm pretty sure it's actually 28 days. The only website reference I can find is here. And it is for the uk, but I'm pretty sure my TIVO says the same thing, and I live in the U.S.
Of course how are you going to know if you like the entire album without buying it. It's not like they ever play entire albums on the radio (well maybe very rarely), and if you have a friend that has the album, it's already fair use to have them make a copy for you right? So what are left with download the songs off your favorite napster-clone, and then if you like them buy them online for 99c a track? Doesn't sound likely.
If Natural Selection were intelligent then the dinosaurs would not be extinct, nor would the miryad of complex and promising creatures of the Edicarian Fauna. Intelligent design would not waste such potential sources of design diversity.
You could just as easily say, that if the designers of programming languages were intelligent, COBOL would not be going extinct. (COBOL is probably not the best choice, since it is still around, but I imagine the idea is clear)
The site where you can easily by "native american" artifacts or jewelry made in locations like mexico or china?
Why can't stuff made in mexico be "native american" artifacts? Mexico is part of america, right?
Hell, let's just coat the outside of the space station with N*Sync members then. I bet if we slice them real thin, we could get the job done.
And if not, well, there are lots of other boy-bands around.
The ultimate feature in these cases is portability, not compactness. With regards to cell phones and laptops the size is not as important as the fact that it is portable at all. Of course a smaller size implies greater portability when it is something you have to carry around with you.
SUVs however are self-propelling, so a larger sized SUV is only slightly less portable than a smaller car.
I recently put together a computer with a EnerMax case/power supply and a SANYO Dragon Lite motherboard, and even with the hard-switch (on the back of the case) switched to off, their was a green led on the motherboard glowing. I had to unplug the powerstrip from the wall to get it totally off.
Once when setting up a shared drive between a linux and an old dos machine (using pc-nfs), we got an error message something along the lines of "psycho-analysis suggested". Nice and obscure, luckily through a google search we identified that this meant we had to use the "insecure" option. I guess some coder at 3am thought that would be cute...
for more on sex with vacuum cleaners, the always entertaining, always factual Cecil Adams.
Lets all ignore the fact that every time there was an eclipse that the shadow was round
The fact that an eclipse gives a round shadow only proves that the moon is round, which would already be obvious to anyone that had looked up at night.
You might be interested in these k5 articles written by a geek volunteering in Kenya through a program called VSO. Here is part one and here is part two.
I think Caroline Woodham is actually the photographer. Click on the link with her name.
hence the reason why we're one of the last countries in the world to allow captial punishment for mentally retarded individuals.
We are not one of the last countries in the world to allow capital punishment for mentally retarded individuals, we are just one of the last civilized countries in the world to allow for it.
One of the scripters for TRIBES built a hud that allowed you to play tetris during slow moments of the game. You can download it here . I don't think it was actually used much, but if your team was seriously destroying the opponents, then your defense might not see much action. There were also p0rn huds (called "swim-suit huds") which basically allowed you to setup a slide show in your hud area.
Actually, if you were only getting 3-4 calls a week, then your asking to be put on the DNC list was probably pretty effective. I live in Colorado, and I regularly get 4+ calls a night. I have caller ID, so I never answered the phone unless it's someone I know, so I never asked to be put on DNC lists, and I think since they never could reach me they just kept trying.
I asked to be put on the statewide DNC list a couple weeks ago, and it should go into effect November 1st for me. I can't wait.
Removing the -s ending from words is an example of stemming. Another example is removing -ed from past tense verbs. In general removing any inflections from words.
Traditionally this has not always worked as well as might be expected. The example I always see used, is for stocks & stockings. Both end up with the same stem "stock". When search engines first started using stemming, someone who was searching for stocks, would get results to pages that had porn ("stockings"). This is just the most common example, and I imagine other common examples exist. In general, stemming has not been found to improve the quality of searches because of words such as these that share the same stem, but have dissimiliar meanings.
Damn. As soon as I saw that headline on the Onion, I said to myself: "Next time there is a RIAA story on Slashdot, I've got to remember to karma-whore out this slashdot link." And now you've beaten me to it. My day is ruined.
Not to be pendantic, but I think the blurryness associated with imperfect vision would act more like a high pass filter (high frequencies == details).
Actually no we have not seen a spike in youth violance.
Homicide rates for young males began to decline in 1994 and dropped 34% between 1993 and 1997 (from 34.0 to 22.6/100,000). In 1997, the rate of homicide among males 15-19 years of age was 22.6/100,000 -- a decline of 12.4% in one year.
It is probably true that media reporting of youth violance has increased along the same timeline as the increase in prevalence of video games, but researching that statistic is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'd agree. Even though people made fun of the x-box controller when it first came out, even most rabid anti-ms zealots would admit that one thing that MS does well, is creates controllers (mostly mice). Now that I've used the xbox controller for a while, the PS2 controller seems like a little toy, too light, too small.
I will admit however that I favor the smaller (s version) xbox controller.
Neat. I'll look for that when I get home.
Can you tell me more about the filter for the now showing guide? I'm not familiar with that.
Interesting point that language is constantly evolving, but I don't think that the example you gave is a good one. Check out this page or this one for a rebuttal. Both pages are discussions on the origin of "OK" and although there is not a general consensus, neither page even mentions that "OK" could be a shortened version of "okay".
I realize mage and warrior were offered, and I've never played an MMORPG so, maybe this won't make sense, but it seems to me that this is a way
for there to be some tradesmen in the game that are being played by real people instead of by the AI. I mean who really wants to start an account and work their way up to a master blacksmith. Sitting in front of your computer 20 hours a week for a couple months making virtual weapons and armor, how many people in the game really do that?
But, it could be fun to play a blacksmith that was already powerful. I imagine you could make really high quality, or maybe even magical or artistic items. That could be fun, but working your way up to that point by churning out 100 two-handed swords sounds more like work.
McDowell's? Isn't this quote from Coming to America? I thought the name of the fastfood place was McDougal's.