True story: Passing security, my wife had her nail clippers confiscated. As soon as we cleared security, we walked into one of the shops and bought another pair of nail clippers. What was the point of seizing them at security?
Okay, if this is a one time Be A Retard day prank, fine. I can suck it up for one day. But if this is something that/. actually plans to implement then I'll just fucking drop slashdot. Because I'm already subscribed to Ars Technica and about half the sites that/. pulls their news from. And I don't have to jump through bullshit hoops to read them.
Re:Not very "Family Friendly" either
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A reader can hover over every frame in Watchmen for five minutes if they desire. A reader can dwell over a paragraph for a similar amount of time. A film director simply cannot avail of this kind of engagement in his movie, except in a handful of scenes. It is both a strength and a weakness of film as a medium, but it puts serious limitations on the medium.
Recent innovations in technology has created a solution to this problem. I first learned of it when the Nintendo corporation implemented it in one of it's entertainment systems.
I was always under the impression that the main reason we couldn't make a true perpetual motion machine (one that wasn't constantly being fed electricity) was that friction kept converting the kinetic energy to heat and sound.
Does this mean that science will finally prove my 6th grade science project wrong?
>Would you rather a giant (but pitifully >unskilled) army in front of you, or one very >skilled assassin behind you?
I might get lucky and take out the assassin. Someone in the army of morons would eventually get lucky and take me out.
Re:Sci-Fi Channel has NO anime.
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Hmmm. Ah! No. Ummm. Well... There's always Monster Rancher. Though that's not a movie. That pisses me off, I was practically introduced to anime by SciFi (Vampire Hunter D).
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So very true. In my city there is a Blockbuster right across the street from Hollywood Video.
Guess which one gets my buisness.
Show your math.
Re:Video stores which != Blockbuster
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Assuming they take place in the same universe. Remember in Riding Bean Rally was a blond and in Gunsmith Cats her hair is a much darker shade (either black or really dark brown, it's hard to tell with B&W).
There were only two episodes made of Dragon Half, both of which were put on the same tape by (whoever brought it over, can't think of them off the top of my head). On the other hand, try to get your hands on the manga. There's _a lot_ more covered in there. If nothing else, you'll learn exactly what that little demon kid was talking about when he said they cut his part out. I want The Godslayer of Hitpoints
The way I see it, Microsoft is actually asking for three different things from/.
Remove Comments Containing A Copy of the Specification:
Remove Comments Containing Links to Internet Sites with Unauthorized Copies of the Specification:
Remove Comments Containing Instructions on How to Bypass the End User License Agreement and Extract the Specification:
Three different requests, and each one should be handled differently...
Remove Comments Containing A Copy of the Specification: I actually think you should. After all, to get this you would have to have (in theory) signed the agreement to get the information, and I doubt you'd be able to convince a judge that the posters post all their confidential information to/.
Remove Comments Containing Links to Internet Sites with Unauthorized Copies of the Specification: *shrugs* Don't. You're not responsible for the info at the other end of the link, and it's just stupid to expect you to check every link for quasi-illegality. Besides, I post all my confidential infomation to the internet (seriously, I don't own my own computer).
Remove Comments Containing Instructions on How to Bypass the End User License Agreement and Extract the Specification: Again, don't. You are providing a valuable service to microsoft in pointing out bugs in their program (you'd think they'd be use to it by now) and the hack itself isn't restricted by law.
I think the reason we still use the good old 0 and 1 system is because it's the hardest to mis-read.
When you get into 0 through 7 or even 0 through 2 instead of 0 through 1, you get an increased chance of blurring because all these different values have to fit in the same magnetic/electrical/optical range. An error that would cause a 4 to be read as a five probably wouldn't even affect a binary system.
Of course, there's also the minor matter of backwards compatability...
Yes. In America, you can sue anyone, at anytime, for anything. If I want to sue you because your socks don't match (and it doesn't matter if they do or not), I can. Of course, any judge with four or more working braincells would immediately throw my case out, and hopefuly throw my ass in jail if he ever saw me in his courtroom again.
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I think the question answers itself.
Okay, if this is a one time Be A Retard day prank, fine. I can suck it up for one day. But if this is something that /. actually plans to implement then I'll just fucking drop slashdot. Because I'm already subscribed to Ars Technica and about half the sites that /. pulls their news from. And I don't have to jump through bullshit hoops to read them.
A reader can hover over every frame in Watchmen for five minutes if they desire. A reader can dwell over a paragraph for a similar amount of time. A film director simply cannot avail of this kind of engagement in his movie, except in a handful of scenes. It is both a strength and a weakness of film as a medium, but it puts serious limitations on the medium.
Recent innovations in technology has created a solution to this problem. I first learned of it when the Nintendo corporation implemented it in one of it's entertainment systems.
It's called the pause button.
One place
One gernade
Sometimes the violent solutions are the only ethical ones.
It'd serve many people well to have a little understanding of the properties of numbers.
Here are _TWO_ of my favourites:
For the first eighteen years of my life, all I could do was exercise my right to free speech and complain about our government.
Someone did. Masamune Shiro wrote Ghost in the Shell in book (manga) format long before it became a one shot anime.
I was always under the impression that the main reason we couldn't make a true perpetual motion machine (one that wasn't constantly being fed electricity) was that friction kept converting the kinetic energy to heat and sound. Does this mean that science will finally prove my 6th grade science project wrong?
>Would you rather a giant (but pitifully >unskilled) army in front of you, or one very >skilled assassin behind you?
I might get lucky and take out the assassin. Someone in the army of morons would eventually get lucky and take me out.
Hmmm. Ah! No. Ummm. Well... There's always Monster Rancher. Though that's not a movie. That pisses me off, I was practically introduced to anime by SciFi (Vampire Hunter D).
So very true. In my city there is a Blockbuster right across the street from Hollywood Video.
Guess which one gets my buisness.
Show your math.
Assuming they take place in the same universe. Remember in Riding Bean Rally was a blond and in Gunsmith Cats her hair is a much darker shade (either black or really dark brown, it's hard to tell with B&W).
There were only two episodes made of Dragon Half, both of which were put on the same tape by (whoever brought it over, can't think of them off the top of my head). On the other hand, try to get your hands on the manga. There's _a lot_ more covered in there. If nothing else, you'll learn exactly what that little demon kid was talking about when he said they cut his part out. I want The Godslayer of Hitpoints
The way I see it, Microsoft is actually asking for three different things from /.
/.
Remove Comments Containing A Copy of the Specification:
Remove Comments Containing Links to Internet Sites with Unauthorized Copies of the Specification:
Remove Comments Containing Instructions on How to Bypass the End User License Agreement and Extract the Specification:
Three different requests, and each one should be handled differently...
Remove Comments Containing A Copy of the Specification: I actually think you should. After all, to get this you would have to have (in theory) signed the agreement to get the information, and I doubt you'd be able to convince a judge that the posters post all their confidential information to
Remove Comments Containing Links to Internet Sites with Unauthorized Copies of the Specification: *shrugs* Don't. You're not responsible for the info at the other end of the link, and it's just stupid to expect you to check every link for quasi-illegality. Besides, I post all my confidential infomation to the internet (seriously, I don't own my own computer).
Remove Comments Containing Instructions on How to Bypass the End User License Agreement and Extract the Specification: Again, don't. You are providing a valuable service to microsoft in pointing out bugs in their program (you'd think they'd be use to it by now) and the hack itself isn't restricted by law.
just my so called thoughs on the matter.
I think the reason we still use the good old 0 and 1 system is because it's the hardest to mis-read.
When you get into 0 through 7 or even 0 through 2 instead of 0 through 1, you get an increased chance of blurring because all these different values have to fit in the same magnetic/electrical/optical range. An error that would cause a 4 to be read as a five probably wouldn't even affect a binary system.
Of course, there's also the minor matter of backwards compatability...
Yes. In America, you can sue anyone, at anytime, for anything. If I want to sue you because your socks don't match (and it doesn't matter if they do or not), I can. Of course, any judge with four or more working braincells would immediately throw my case out, and hopefuly throw my ass in jail if he ever saw me in his courtroom again.