They just announced to all potential "deranged gunmen" that they shouldn't use the "active shooter" phrases on the internet, or cover their tracks if they do so. Good job.
I guess it's time to find out which handguns are most popularly used for crime and then start a company selling brass catchers for them.
And then the government will ban sales of brass catchers.
If you're a bit more daring, you can check out sites such as mp3car.com or other "carputer" resources and try to roll your own. Looking at mp3car.com now, I am slightly disappointed. They used to be more of a "how to" with a shop section, and they seem to have transformed into a shop with a forums section.
Back in the late 90s, I knew people who would leave their modems connected overnight on a dedicated line, with a download manager running, just to be sure they got the latest copy of whatever it was they were after.
Slowing up your downloads is just going to make people take longer to grab something, or they'll busily try to find a way to circumvent your "protection." Or, they'll move on to some other service or method, partially collapsing your business model.
According to one of the articles I'd seen, his status as a Fellow of the Harvard School of Ethics would have allowed him access to JSTOR. If true, one wonders why he went through all the trouble.
I've never used 'em. I don't use the self checkout unless I'm only getting a couple items, either, and god help you if you want to get beer. Honestly, the checkout lines are never a problem at our Stop and Shop so there's no real added convenience to using it for me.
I'd been exclusively building and using AMD systems for my past 2-3 machine builds, but I just built a new computer over the weekend. Just my luck it was a Sandy Bridge CPU with a P67 chipset motherboard. I suppose I'll go fill out my registration for the motherboard tonight and wait for Gigabyte to contact me regarding a recall.
As an aside, I'm a little confused about how the lost time and the litigation process "ended" his career as a yield engineer. Have other people refused to hire him? Does the field change so fast that he truly doesn't know anything useful anymore and may as well have switched jobs? That whole thing smells of drumming up sympathy and inflating the measurable economic loss to seek a larger judgment, or perhaps getting those benefits to the case out of convenience after deciding voluntarily to give up the profession for the entrepreneurial endeavor the plaintiff is engaged in now.
This portion of his lawyer's argument struck me as odd, as well. I'm not sure how Seagate hiring you for 9 months after you worked at TI kills your career forever. Anyone around here have an insight, or is the lawyer blowing smoke?
Voiceovers for quest text is just something I'll be skipping because I've already skimmed through the obligatory, "Sand people attacked my land cruiser while I was en route with a shipment of unobtanium for the port in Mos Eisley, and the crates with my valuable cargo are littering the deserts. Without the money, I can't afford the medicine for my sick daughter, and I'm incapable of traveling and/or fighting; would you please find 50 crates and return them to me?" I'll be already heading in the vague direction the quest NPC has sent me on, trying to get my next level/item/skill and some in-game currency.
Heck, I have friends who refuse to play Borderlands with me because I won't read the quest text before charging off in the direction of my next waypoint.
It is free to play, and I still couldn't stick to playing it for more than a week. The fact that free play is restricted to Empire vs Chaos Tier 1 may have been a factor, but probably not the deciding one.
It seems mostly bland and uninspired to me, where it doesn't seem thrown together or buggy.
If the patent process is working as intended, which limits my comment to an imaginary world, the only thing I could think of is that Microsoft applied for this patent before the prior art (badaboom, MediaCoder, et al) were developed.
In the real world, however, the patent office probably just dropped the ball on prior art.
For years now, we've been able to get around the old injustice of having to buy a whole album just for one or two of the songs which weren't crap....
Now, they'll let us buy just the levels in a game we want to play? Great! Level 1 is always such crap, no matter the game, I shouldn't have to pay for it!
Those of us with busy schedules can just purchase the final level, all the pleasure of beating the game without the time investment of all that buildup nonsense.
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That's basically the one which made me only sign petitions for the troll factor from then on.
I took these petitions seriously once. ONCE.
They just announced to all potential "deranged gunmen" that they shouldn't use the "active shooter" phrases on the internet, or cover their tracks if they do so. Good job.
I bet they used a GUI interface using Visual Basic!
I guess it's time to find out which handguns are most popularly used for crime and then start a company selling brass catchers for them. And then the government will ban sales of brass catchers.
This just in, Fox News is produced using video cameras, the same technology used by terrorists to create beheading videos!
If you're a bit more daring, you can check out sites such as mp3car.com or other "carputer" resources and try to roll your own. Looking at mp3car.com now, I am slightly disappointed. They used to be more of a "how to" with a shop section, and they seem to have transformed into a shop with a forums section.
Back in the late 90s, I knew people who would leave their modems connected overnight on a dedicated line, with a download manager running, just to be sure they got the latest copy of whatever it was they were after.
Slowing up your downloads is just going to make people take longer to grab something, or they'll busily try to find a way to circumvent your "protection." Or, they'll move on to some other service or method, partially collapsing your business model.
The Zetas will have to worry about the other cartels coming for them and their allies if the names are released.
According to their website, they don't seem to offer a price guarantee even on preorders which drop in price before shipping.
According to one of the articles I'd seen, his status as a Fellow of the Harvard School of Ethics would have allowed him access to JSTOR. If true, one wonders why he went through all the trouble.
An update on the article points out that his claim of being a Reddit co-founder is in dispute.
I unsubscribed from the Demand Progress mailing list because of their whitewashing of the charges against him.
I've never used 'em. I don't use the self checkout unless I'm only getting a couple items, either, and god help you if you want to get beer. Honestly, the checkout lines are never a problem at our Stop and Shop so there's no real added convenience to using it for me.
Your ISP may be none to happy when they find out you're sharing your connection, I'd double check their terms of service just in case.
I'll queue up downloads 24/7 for the first six months, and that should probably take care of any music I, my family, and my friends wanted anyhow.
I'd been exclusively building and using AMD systems for my past 2-3 machine builds, but I just built a new computer over the weekend. Just my luck it was a Sandy Bridge CPU with a P67 chipset motherboard. I suppose I'll go fill out my registration for the motherboard tonight and wait for Gigabyte to contact me regarding a recall.
As an aside, I'm a little confused about how the lost time and the litigation process "ended" his career as a yield engineer. Have other people refused to hire him? Does the field change so fast that he truly doesn't know anything useful anymore and may as well have switched jobs? That whole thing smells of drumming up sympathy and inflating the measurable economic loss to seek a larger judgment, or perhaps getting those benefits to the case out of convenience after deciding voluntarily to give up the profession for the entrepreneurial endeavor the plaintiff is engaged in now.
This portion of his lawyer's argument struck me as odd, as well. I'm not sure how Seagate hiring you for 9 months after you worked at TI kills your career forever. Anyone around here have an insight, or is the lawyer blowing smoke?
Good luck, he was behind 7 proxies.
Voiceovers for quest text is just something I'll be skipping because I've already skimmed through the obligatory, "Sand people attacked my land cruiser while I was en route with a shipment of unobtanium for the port in Mos Eisley, and the crates with my valuable cargo are littering the deserts. Without the money, I can't afford the medicine for my sick daughter, and I'm incapable of traveling and/or fighting; would you please find 50 crates and return them to me?" I'll be already heading in the vague direction the quest NPC has sent me on, trying to get my next level/item/skill and some in-game currency.
Heck, I have friends who refuse to play Borderlands with me because I won't read the quest text before charging off in the direction of my next waypoint.
To each their own, I suppose.
It is free to play, and I still couldn't stick to playing it for more than a week. The fact that free play is restricted to Empire vs Chaos Tier 1 may have been a factor, but probably not the deciding one.
It seems mostly bland and uninspired to me, where it doesn't seem thrown together or buggy.
If the patent process is working as intended, which limits my comment to an imaginary world, the only thing I could think of is that Microsoft applied for this patent before the prior art (badaboom, MediaCoder, et al) were developed.
In the real world, however, the patent office probably just dropped the ball on prior art.
Don't buy this book on Amazon using your credit card if you do intend on disappearing. It might tip off anyone who does come looking for you.
For years now, we've been able to get around the old injustice of having to buy a whole album just for one or two of the songs which weren't crap....
Now, they'll let us buy just the levels in a game we want to play? Great! Level 1 is always such crap, no matter the game, I shouldn't have to pay for it!
Those of us with busy schedules can just purchase the final level, all the pleasure of beating the game without the time investment of all that buildup nonsense.
Yeah, the title seems misleading, since they're writing and verifying data on an EEPROM, which is not used in solid state drives last time I checked.