How is your kid supposed to know that they have the part he is looking for, or even what kind of site gcsextreme.com *IS* if it was locked out so he couldn't look at it?
Unless he had someone else check FOR him, there is no way for the person with the censored access to know what they are missing, and whether and what to ask for access to. Anything censored may as well not exist.
(correct me if i:m wrong, of course...my memory for things that I don:t devote much attention to is pretty spotty)
CBS's last time out with the 98 winter olympics sucked far harder. NBC actually got around to showing SOME events, and was considerably lighter on the fluff-pieces.
I don't know about that, but it certainly does help you understand how your own language works, and, if you're sharp enough to put the pieces together, to figure out how better to talk with foreign speakers of your language.
I think that it is absolutely moronic that children in american schools are taught grammar without first or concurrently studying a foreign language (ANY foreign language) first. I know that I didn't understand anything beyond "noun, adjective, verb," and "subject, predicate," because I couldn't recognize anything else in English, because I never had to THINK about it. After studying German (with a really bad teacher, grammar-wise) I was able to understand a lot more about the structure of English (and I was able to appreciate the ways in which English is simpler than most European languages, and how Japanese is simpler still)
Well, anyhow, it may not make you smarter, unless you pick the right language to study. For an English speaker, I think Russian might be a good one. (from what little I know about it)
Honestly, I haven't gotten many new concepts from Japanese...if anything it is far poorer than English with regard to subtle distinctions in...well, everything, and I've found a lot more that can't be translated INTO Japanese than can't be translated FROM it.
In japanese, and from what I've gathered from my brasilian friend, Brasilian Portugese, it's almost exclusively NOUNS that get adopted. Most verbs associated with with computers are from the local language. (If that weren't the case, I wouldn't have to work from memory when using Japanese-language mac and windows machines:P)
Now, you don't notice this much in the Western world because all Western Languages (basically wesstern European languages) are capable of expressing the same ideas. Being Danish you don't have any trouble expressing yourself in English.
I have a lot of trouble in Japanese...there is no good distinction between "idiot," "asshole," "retard," etc. So when I wanted to tell this guy he was all three, I was basically stuck with "baka."
The terms of derision...thats what I like about English. (I'm told by a friend that Brasilian Portugese is similarly rich, but given his rather limited usage, I'm inclined to say that it isn't quite so well endowed.)
I don:t know about big-city cops, but I think to call them ALL evil is overdoing it a little. (Course, it only takes a few to fuck things up for the public, and to completely destroy the reputation of the police in general)
As for people who WANT to be cops...a couple of my friends from high school were/are studying to become state troopers (a college degree is required), and while one didn:t change much, the other gradually turned from a somewhat normal human being into a militaristic hardass. I haven:t talked to him enough to know whether he will become just that, or a hardass ASSHOLE (an untrustworthy, cronyistic liar), but considering how much he has changed, if he works anywhere that might breed cynicism (and AK is full of such places), he will be.
Well, you're perfectly welcome to do that with an analog format, but if it is digital, and has any sort of digital copy protection (no matter how feeble) you're a criminal, and should turn yourself into the MPAA for a caning.
Or you can do what judge whatshisface reccomended and stick to analog copying, which of course isn't made illegal by the DMCA.
But be very glad the US is using the standard that they finally settled on. Japanese viewers are getting fucked. Sure their HDTV sets may (now) cost half as much, but DAMN....does regular TV look like shit on those things. Not only that, I've only seen ONE japanese HDTV that even comes CLOSE to what (little) I've seen in the US, even with an HDTV signal. (Enormous color problems, jaggies, some slight ghosting...almost as bad as with the regular NTSC signals on some sets. heh...not that there is a lot worth watching on Japanese TV anyhow.)
I'm not sure if DARE was even around yet when I was in middle school (it was around when I was in high school, but my high school didn't have any of that bullshit...well, there was this guy who sometimes patrolled the highways who I think was a DARE cop, but I think he also was involved with the Explorer program.), but there was something similar. STARS: "Students Taking a Right Stand"
That was probably the second time I realized that 90 percent of everything I saw or did at school was bullshit (the first being Mrs Finsrud's social studies class). People were expected to sign a pledge to not drink or use illegal drugs. If they did, they could go to all these little shindigs they had for the STARS program, usually involving pizza and/or ice cream. If they didn't, they basically got stuck in detention...crammed in a classroom and told to sit down and be quiet.
Most of the people who I am pretty sure were already (8th grade) using drugs and whatnot signed the pledge and went to the little parties. And either the teachers/administrators didn't know or didn't care. It seemed a little stupid to me...an incentive for signing, a disincentive for NOT signing, and NO verification. DUH!
I didn't sign, because I had some fucking principles. I got stuck in detention with the other people who didn't sign, or who caused too much trouble to be allowed to go. To their credit, some of these people must have placed some value on honesty themselves...I'm pretty sure most of them were in the aforementioned using group.
On the other hand, there was this bitch who would just out of the blue start hitting me, basically any time she saw me. I hit back (I'm equal-opportunity when it comes to violence), of course. Naturally when the prison guard (Mr Lyman, one of the two 8th grade science teachers, and a pretty cool guy) saw there was some fuss, he asked what was going on, and every friggin' person in that room said I started it. (Without prior consultation) Fortunately Mr Lyman didn't buy it.
Fuck, I hated school.
I had 95 running fairly well for three years, until I started having problems with my hard disk which scandisk couldn't fix (I think there might be some physical damage to the thing...dunno, don't use it anymore)
Things WORKED before, but I didn't realize I was actually having some sort of problem until I reinstalled and got about 3 or 4 extra FPS in Half-Life (on my P200);P
Try getting even NT 4 drivers to work in windows 2000. In my experience, it's about 50/50 whether it will work or not.
And icons with question marks or exclaimation points never look good in the device manager.
Never noticed their prices (I guess I never see them, only looking at the low end of the price scale for most things), but you're right about good products. Best Mac mouse I ever used was a Kensington.
I think they might also be including those (often horrible, sometimes completely non-functional) "restore discs." If the manufacturers are such experts, you'd think they could do those right. (I'm thinking of the one that came with a Toshiba Equiuum at work...never could get the thing to install properly. But of course, the PQ Drive Image disc that my supervisors assistant put together worked just fine)
But it certainly isn't a new idea. I saw a mercury telescope (IIRC, it was 10 feet) almost 5 years ago at HIPAS, a research facility near here (the vicinity of Fairbanks, AK) my friend's dad worked at at the time.
poor, abused geek, without the willpower to take what he wants instead of what he's offered... I think if they're shoving pay raises at you when you threaten to cut back your hours, that means they want to keep you. That means you can threaten to leave in order to get what you want.
They were trying to get people to push the McRib sandwich, so there was a contest! Every grill person was paired with a counter or window person, and whichever pair sold the most would get a 50 dollar bonus.
Of course, most of the pairings were over different shifts, so the people would never even MEET, which made it hard to give a rat's ass...and removed any incentive for the person on the grill to hurry things along.
Then there's the big issue (where it's similar to this one)...is all the extra effort really worth it for something like $2.50? (50 dollars divided by the number of groups...since as a grill person you'd have no way of knowing how the person you were paired with was doing) Especially when you KNOW the sponsor of this little competition is getting MUCH, MUCH more out of it than they're putting in?
In this case it's billions (maybe?) rather than hundreds of dollars.
And they aren't dealing with a bunch of high-school dropouts and retards (presumably).
Because of people who don't want to "waste their vote," and people not being aware of less high-profile candidates, which candidates are listen in a poll can affect the results of future polls, by increasing or decreasing awareness of certain candidates.
I don't think this means that every candidate should appear in every poll...you might get people saying they'll vote for Bo Gritz or something just because they haven't heard of him.
Gah....it's readable in Notepad, but I can't find the text in Pico. I hadn't realized how insanely MESSY the Word format had become! Used to be there'd just be a few lines of crap before and after your text...now it's all over the place.
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1 BASE = 2 bits. (CATG....four bases) Double that figure.
How is your kid supposed to know that they have the part he is looking for, or even what kind of site gcsextreme.com *IS* if it was locked out so he couldn't look at it?
Unless he had someone else check FOR him, there is no way for the person with the censored access to know what they are missing, and whether and what to ask for access to. Anything censored may as well not exist.
(correct me if i:m wrong, of course...my memory for things that I don:t devote much attention to is pretty spotty) CBS's last time out with the 98 winter olympics sucked far harder. NBC actually got around to showing SOME events, and was considerably lighter on the fluff-pieces.
I don't know about that, but it certainly does help you understand how your own language works, and, if you're sharp enough to put the pieces together, to figure out how better to talk with foreign speakers of your language.
I think that it is absolutely moronic that children in american schools are taught grammar without first or concurrently studying a foreign language (ANY foreign language) first. I know that I didn't understand anything beyond "noun, adjective, verb," and "subject, predicate," because I couldn't recognize anything else in English, because I never had to THINK about it. After studying German (with a really bad teacher, grammar-wise) I was able to understand a lot more about the structure of English (and I was able to appreciate the ways in which English is simpler than most European languages, and how Japanese is simpler still)
Well, anyhow, it may not make you smarter, unless you pick the right language to study. For an English speaker, I think Russian might be a good one. (from what little I know about it)
Honestly, I haven't gotten many new concepts from Japanese...if anything it is far poorer than English with regard to subtle distinctions in...well, everything, and I've found a lot more that can't be translated INTO Japanese than can't be translated FROM it.
In japanese, and from what I've gathered from my brasilian friend, Brasilian Portugese, it's almost exclusively NOUNS that get adopted. Most verbs associated with with computers are from the local language. (If that weren't the case, I wouldn't have to work from memory when using Japanese-language mac and windows machines :P)
Now, you don't notice this much in the Western world because all Western Languages (basically wesstern European languages) are capable of expressing the same ideas. Being Danish you don't have any trouble expressing yourself in English.
I have a lot of trouble in Japanese...there is no good distinction between "idiot," "asshole," "retard," etc. So when I wanted to tell this guy he was all three, I was basically stuck with "baka."
The terms of derision...thats what I like about English. (I'm told by a friend that Brasilian Portugese is similarly rich, but given his rather limited usage, I'm inclined to say that it isn't quite so well endowed.)
Since the recordings are neither digital, nor encrypted (or otherwise copy-protected), I don:t think the DMCA applies.
Well, maybe if you:re recording the DeCSS song from reel to reel.
I don:t know about big-city cops, but I think to call them ALL evil is overdoing it a little. (Course, it only takes a few to fuck things up for the public, and to completely destroy the reputation of the police in general) As for people who WANT to be cops...a couple of my friends from high school were/are studying to become state troopers (a college degree is required), and while one didn:t change much, the other gradually turned from a somewhat normal human being into a militaristic hardass. I haven:t talked to him enough to know whether he will become just that, or a hardass ASSHOLE (an untrustworthy, cronyistic liar), but considering how much he has changed, if he works anywhere that might breed cynicism (and AK is full of such places), he will be.
Well, you're perfectly welcome to do that with an analog format, but if it is digital, and has any sort of digital copy protection (no matter how feeble) you're a criminal, and should turn yourself into the MPAA for a caning.
Or you can do what judge whatshisface reccomended and stick to analog copying, which of course isn't made illegal by the DMCA.
But be very glad the US is using the standard that they finally settled on. Japanese viewers are getting fucked. Sure their HDTV sets may (now) cost half as much, but DAMN....does regular TV look like shit on those things. Not only that, I've only seen ONE japanese HDTV that even comes CLOSE to what (little) I've seen in the US, even with an HDTV signal. (Enormous color problems, jaggies, some slight ghosting...almost as bad as with the regular NTSC signals on some sets. heh...not that there is a lot worth watching on Japanese TV anyhow.)
I'm not sure if DARE was even around yet when I was in middle school (it was around when I was in high school, but my high school didn't have any of that bullshit...well, there was this guy who sometimes patrolled the highways who I think was a DARE cop, but I think he also was involved with the Explorer program.), but there was something similar. STARS: "Students Taking a Right Stand" That was probably the second time I realized that 90 percent of everything I saw or did at school was bullshit (the first being Mrs Finsrud's social studies class). People were expected to sign a pledge to not drink or use illegal drugs. If they did, they could go to all these little shindigs they had for the STARS program, usually involving pizza and/or ice cream. If they didn't, they basically got stuck in detention...crammed in a classroom and told to sit down and be quiet. Most of the people who I am pretty sure were already (8th grade) using drugs and whatnot signed the pledge and went to the little parties. And either the teachers/administrators didn't know or didn't care. It seemed a little stupid to me...an incentive for signing, a disincentive for NOT signing, and NO verification. DUH! I didn't sign, because I had some fucking principles. I got stuck in detention with the other people who didn't sign, or who caused too much trouble to be allowed to go. To their credit, some of these people must have placed some value on honesty themselves...I'm pretty sure most of them were in the aforementioned using group. On the other hand, there was this bitch who would just out of the blue start hitting me, basically any time she saw me. I hit back (I'm equal-opportunity when it comes to violence), of course. Naturally when the prison guard (Mr Lyman, one of the two 8th grade science teachers, and a pretty cool guy) saw there was some fuss, he asked what was going on, and every friggin' person in that room said I started it. (Without prior consultation) Fortunately Mr Lyman didn't buy it. Fuck, I hated school.
I had 95 running fairly well for three years, until I started having problems with my hard disk which scandisk couldn't fix (I think there might be some physical damage to the thing...dunno, don't use it anymore) Things WORKED before, but I didn't realize I was actually having some sort of problem until I reinstalled and got about 3 or 4 extra FPS in Half-Life (on my P200) ;P
Try getting even NT 4 drivers to work in windows 2000. In my experience, it's about 50/50 whether it will work or not. And icons with question marks or exclaimation points never look good in the device manager.
Never noticed their prices (I guess I never see them, only looking at the low end of the price scale for most things), but you're right about good products. Best Mac mouse I ever used was a Kensington.
I think they might also be including those (often horrible, sometimes completely non-functional) "restore discs." If the manufacturers are such experts, you'd think they could do those right. (I'm thinking of the one that came with a Toshiba Equiuum at work...never could get the thing to install properly. But of course, the PQ Drive Image disc that my supervisors assistant put together worked just fine)
It was there (and I think operating) at least as early as 1996. (That's when I got to visit)
But it certainly isn't a new idea. I saw a mercury telescope (IIRC, it was 10 feet) almost 5 years ago at HIPAS, a research facility near here (the vicinity of Fairbanks, AK) my friend's dad worked at at the time.
poor, abused geek, without the willpower to take what he wants instead of what he's offered... I think if they're shoving pay raises at you when you threaten to cut back your hours, that means they want to keep you. That means you can threaten to leave in order to get what you want.
For the quarter-pounders, the POLICY was to undercook it. :/ (There was a set amount of time at a particular temperature, which did NOT do the job)
Because it's cool?
They were trying to get people to push the McRib sandwich, so there was a contest! Every grill person was paired with a counter or window person, and whichever pair sold the most would get a 50 dollar bonus.
Of course, most of the pairings were over different shifts, so the people would never even MEET, which made it hard to give a rat's ass...and removed any incentive for the person on the grill to hurry things along.
Then there's the big issue (where it's similar to this one)...is all the extra effort really worth it for something like $2.50? (50 dollars divided by the number of groups...since as a grill person you'd have no way of knowing how the person you were paired with was doing) Especially when you KNOW the sponsor of this little competition is getting MUCH, MUCH more out of it than they're putting in?
In this case it's billions (maybe?) rather than hundreds of dollars.
And they aren't dealing with a bunch of high-school dropouts and retards (presumably).
You'd be seeing a lot more patents like "one-click ordering."
Because of people who don't want to "waste their vote," and people not being aware of less high-profile candidates, which candidates are listen in a poll can affect the results of future polls, by increasing or decreasing awareness of certain candidates.
I don't think this means that every candidate should appear in every poll...you might get people saying they'll vote for Bo Gritz or something just because they haven't heard of him.
Gah....it's readable in Notepad, but I can't find the text in Pico. I hadn't realized how insanely MESSY the Word format had become! Used to be there'd just be a few lines of crap before and after your text...now it's all over the place.
I dunno...320 for Windows 2000 (and 180 bucks for the full version of Windows, ... At that rate it'll only be soon if "soon" means decades. :/