Is it made with real sugar over there, or high fructose corn syrup? It's strange, but this is the only soda I think tastes _better_ with the high fructose corn syrup than the sugar.
Honestly just being curious here... is it possibly because you were just used to the imperfections and the nuances of records before? It seems similar to the 24fps argument (true movies have flicker and motion blur so 48fps without the same motion blur seems amateur and soap opera-like). I had to readjust my perceptions when I thought of it that way. Your brain can trick you in to feeling that the better quality looks unprofessional.
I wish so much that companies were not allowed to advertise their prescription medication in the US. There are way too many hypochondriacs with access to WebMD that see a medicine and badger their doctor in to giving it to them. Half the time the advertisement doesn't even say what the medication is for! It expects people to go looking for it. It's completely irresponsible. I would hope if I really needed some sort of medicine that my doctor would tell me. If he doesn't there is always a second opinion. I realize that certain people would find out on their own and badger anyway, but this would greatly cut it back.
Google Talk and Google Hangout are good obvious alternatives. If you insist on running your own solution, I've had very good experiences with using Elastix. It has everything built in to one package that takes advantage of Asterisk VOIP. I've set it up for multiple companies as their corporate phone system, including some that used it in fairly large call centers. It's also free and has a decent community behind it. They're pretty helpful, and when I was starting out with it I got a lot of good advice on their IRC channel. VOIP, IM, Videoconferencing, and it has good hardware support for all of the telephony devices.
The only way to handle sensitive issues like this is to have standards in place to begin with. Configuration Management including coding standards and honest peer reviews. If the developer didn't follow standards, he fails his peer review. It doesn't even have to be personal. Not "Your code is horrible, fix it.", it's "We need code written this way to comply, please fix". It gives you a leg to stand on rather than dramatic phrases like "Your code is like a war crime".
With at least regards to Columbine, I don't think it would matter. I was in highschool at the time and I read a lot about the shooting. There were many descriptions of them casually walking about the school, setting off their bombs, reloading, even video of Eric Harris calmly dropping on one knee to take aim and pick people off. I don't think a magazine size restriction would have made any difference to those two.
I have a smart TV. I also have a blu-ray player, which replicates basically all of the functionality of the smart TV. I also have a 360, which does exactly the same as all of the above. The only one of those devices that has netflix, youtube, etc and doesn't drag its feet is the 360. It is also the only device that gets regular updates. I didn't buy the TV because of the smart features, but the features it has could have been cool. It came with a separate remote that can be used similar to a wii-mote and is pretty handy for using the interface. Sadly, bad coding and slow chips in it kill the experience.
I've been following MenuetOS for years now. I love the fact that it can run uncompressed on a single floppy. It has a fairly modern UI and can do a lot of the same tasks that most major operating systems do, but in a far smaller footprint. It's also very fast. It makes me feel like any other operating system is just being wasteful.
Every time something like this happens, they try to blame video games for it. Other things too, yes, but one of the main targets is video games. I know the point is to pretend they've accomplished something, but people see that, right? It's like professional wrestling... we all know it's mostly soap opera mixed with some jumping around in speedos. How long can they keep this up? Imagine the time and money wasted for these people that are doing this. Think about all of the other issues that have been ongoing that they are ignoring to rush for the attention grab. I would like to think these people are not really that out of touch with the public that they think something like Starcraft would make him want to murder innocent children. If they are that out of touch, it's time they retire from politics.
It made me remember the old mobile Windows operating systems. Microsoft thought everyone would want a normal start bar, etc on their mobile device. It didn't work out well as history has proven. Now they're trying the other way around... force the mobile UI on the desktop. They don't fathom that people want desktop (and at the very least non-touch laptops) to have one UI, and mobile devices to have another.
I would love to have an app on my phone and my xbox for Archive.org. I love watching some of the old movies there, as well as a lot of the cheesy old "coronet" films (the 40's and 50's videos like Lunchroom Manners). They're unbelievably entertaining for me, I don't know why.
I got one of the chromebooks google shipped out for testing. I love it a lot more than I thought I would. It is the laptop I read sites/chat/watch youtube on before sleep. Very light, very quiet and it doesn't generate a lot of heat.
It sits on it like a pedestal and enacts a "daydream" mode in the phone. I guess I misunderstood what the Apple patent was really about. That sounds more reasonable at least.
I personally prefer consoles for most games, the only exception being Minecraft and once upon a time, Terraria. I like sitting on my comfy couch while I play instead of at a desk. Games like GTA are much more fun for me with a controller instead of a keyboard, and that sandbox style is my favorite type. Red Dead Redemption is amazing, even two years later. I still start up new saves on it all the time. I can understand that people like the precision of a mouse for things like CounterStrike, but if everyone else is on an xbox like you then it doesn't matter, you are all on the same playing field. I don't care if I am having fun. I play games to relax, not for any competition.
That said, something like this would encourage me to want to play more PC games than just Minecraft. I like this idea.
That's very true of course, but in the debate of morality in machines, I don't think it's completely applicable. That's still immoral humans getting involved.
Very valid point, but if you spend time on it I'm sure it's possible to think of exceptions for everything. If driverless cars are ubiquitous enough as to be made mandatory like the summary suggests, I would assume roads would have to be changed too. Every sidewalk would have to have a barrier or something to obstruct people from getting in to the street. People's behavior would have to change too, to match their environment. By "knowledge a driver could not have", I meant that a computer could draw data from sensors, beacons, and many sources and process all of that data in milliseconds to know what is surrounding it. My car that I drive now has no such sensors, so I rely on my own senses and skills. I would not know if there's a rock in the road around a turn, but if I'm in a driverless car, I would imagine the sensors for that stretch of road would report to my car that there was a non-mobile obstruction in the road and comply accordingly. But this is all speculation.
In the example given, a dilemma between veering off a bridge and hitting a bus, if the vehicles were automatically driven they would both have sensors and software that would be able to prevent this decision from needing to be made in the first place. In every instance I can think of, accidents happen due to driver carelessness, inability, or simply due to knowledge a driver could not have.
Take this scenario. In the world of driverless vehicles, the bus would either send a signal to notify other vehicles it was there, giving the other vehicles ample time to slow down safely or reroute. If it was incapacitated with no power to send a signal, the vehicle should still be equipped to know what obstacles are in the path (since the bus in that case would not be a moving target, the computer in the approaching vehicle should have no problem identifying it even without a beacon). This entire situation would simply not happen. I would imagine if we had the technology for an all driverless highway system, they would be sending and receiving tons of data... enough to know the status of every vehicle in the vicinity and the computing power to calculate how to respond to any changes.
Just an aside, have you tried Feed The Beast? I've been playing that for a while now, and I like it better than the Tekkit pack. It works with Minecraft 1.4.2 and took out some items I felt were overpowered. I love the biomes it added, some of them are simply amazing.
There were lots of Star Wars novels, about Luke bringing back the Jedi, etc. so they have lots of material to work with. They wouldn't even need to dig for story ideas.
For years the closed cell network and intranet have been available in NK, long before Kim Jong Un was even known. They've slowly been adapting things from outside of the country for over a decade now, and even have their own versions of "burger joints". Youtube is blocked where I am, otherwise I'd post links to some videos on there showing them off. This is the same way North Korea has dealt with all technology. When radios were still the main source of media, they were given radios they could not turn off, that played propoganda and "party approved" music. When TV became inevitable they started giving televisions to upstanding members of the party, but they were limited to one channel only and it was illegal to tamper with it. I'm still interested to find out if anything will change in regards to available technology... Kim Jong Un spent lots of time outside the country and grew up with video games, dvds, and most likely, the internet.
The main difference is that it has become widespread to smuggle _real_ phones in to the country from China. They are also getting DVD's from South Korea via China. Many of them are now aware that the rest of the world is not the desolate backwater their government asserted it was.
I did read the chat logs between Manning and Lamo. I don't believe Manning should have done what he did. At the same time, it looked very much to me like Lamo egged him on. Manning clearly had anger, identity and emotional problems. From what I saw in the logs, Lamo played on those, even flirting with him. He spent quite a bit of time trying to get things out of Manning for his own personal gain, like getting a.mil e-mail address. It appears to me that he grabbed what he could from Manning, then used him to get attention.
Not sure if your question is really how tall are they, but in the lore of Lord of the Rings, they were called halflings because they were exactly half the size of the men who named them. If my memory is correct, it was the Numenor, who were tall (about 6' 5" to 7" average). That puts Hobbits at about 3' 2.5" to 3.5'.
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Is it made with real sugar over there, or high fructose corn syrup? It's strange, but this is the only soda I think tastes _better_ with the high fructose corn syrup than the sugar.
There is also MCServer, which was written by a kid in college in his spare time, uses LUA scripting, and is now open source.
MC-Server.org
Honestly just being curious here... is it possibly because you were just used to the imperfections and the nuances of records before? It seems similar to the 24fps argument (true movies have flicker and motion blur so 48fps without the same motion blur seems amateur and soap opera-like). I had to readjust my perceptions when I thought of it that way. Your brain can trick you in to feeling that the better quality looks unprofessional.
I wish so much that companies were not allowed to advertise their prescription medication in the US. There are way too many hypochondriacs with access to WebMD that see a medicine and badger their doctor in to giving it to them. Half the time the advertisement doesn't even say what the medication is for! It expects people to go looking for it. It's completely irresponsible. I would hope if I really needed some sort of medicine that my doctor would tell me. If he doesn't there is always a second opinion. I realize that certain people would find out on their own and badger anyway, but this would greatly cut it back.
Google Talk and Google Hangout are good obvious alternatives. If you insist on running your own solution, I've had very good experiences with using Elastix. It has everything built in to one package that takes advantage of Asterisk VOIP. I've set it up for multiple companies as their corporate phone system, including some that used it in fairly large call centers. It's also free and has a decent community behind it. They're pretty helpful, and when I was starting out with it I got a lot of good advice on their IRC channel. VOIP, IM, Videoconferencing, and it has good hardware support for all of the telephony devices.
The only way to handle sensitive issues like this is to have standards in place to begin with. Configuration Management including coding standards and honest peer reviews. If the developer didn't follow standards, he fails his peer review. It doesn't even have to be personal. Not "Your code is horrible, fix it.", it's "We need code written this way to comply, please fix". It gives you a leg to stand on rather than dramatic phrases like "Your code is like a war crime".
With at least regards to Columbine, I don't think it would matter. I was in highschool at the time and I read a lot about the shooting. There were many descriptions of them casually walking about the school, setting off their bombs, reloading, even video of Eric Harris calmly dropping on one knee to take aim and pick people off. I don't think a magazine size restriction would have made any difference to those two.
I have a smart TV. I also have a blu-ray player, which replicates basically all of the functionality of the smart TV. I also have a 360, which does exactly the same as all of the above. The only one of those devices that has netflix, youtube, etc and doesn't drag its feet is the 360. It is also the only device that gets regular updates. I didn't buy the TV because of the smart features, but the features it has could have been cool. It came with a separate remote that can be used similar to a wii-mote and is pretty handy for using the interface. Sadly, bad coding and slow chips in it kill the experience.
I've been following MenuetOS for years now. I love the fact that it can run uncompressed on a single floppy. It has a fairly modern UI and can do a lot of the same tasks that most major operating systems do, but in a far smaller footprint. It's also very fast. It makes me feel like any other operating system is just being wasteful.
Every time something like this happens, they try to blame video games for it. Other things too, yes, but one of the main targets is video games. I know the point is to pretend they've accomplished something, but people see that, right? It's like professional wrestling... we all know it's mostly soap opera mixed with some jumping around in speedos. How long can they keep this up? Imagine the time and money wasted for these people that are doing this. Think about all of the other issues that have been ongoing that they are ignoring to rush for the attention grab. I would like to think these people are not really that out of touch with the public that they think something like Starcraft would make him want to murder innocent children. If they are that out of touch, it's time they retire from politics.
It made me remember the old mobile Windows operating systems. Microsoft thought everyone would want a normal start bar, etc on their mobile device. It didn't work out well as history has proven. Now they're trying the other way around... force the mobile UI on the desktop. They don't fathom that people want desktop (and at the very least non-touch laptops) to have one UI, and mobile devices to have another.
I would love to have an app on my phone and my xbox for Archive.org. I love watching some of the old movies there, as well as a lot of the cheesy old "coronet" films (the 40's and 50's videos like Lunchroom Manners). They're unbelievably entertaining for me, I don't know why.
Duck Duck Go isn't just a frontend for bing.
They collect from many different sources including their own crawlers. Bing is a source, but nowhere near the only one.
See Duck Duck Go's help page on sources for more the full list.
I got one of the chromebooks google shipped out for testing. I love it a lot more than I thought I would. It is the laptop I read sites/chat/watch youtube on before sleep. Very light, very quiet and it doesn't generate a lot of heat.
It sits on it like a pedestal and enacts a "daydream" mode in the phone. I guess I misunderstood what the Apple patent was really about. That sounds more reasonable at least.
I personally prefer consoles for most games, the only exception being Minecraft and once upon a time, Terraria. I like sitting on my comfy couch while I play instead of at a desk. Games like GTA are much more fun for me with a controller instead of a keyboard, and that sandbox style is my favorite type. Red Dead Redemption is amazing, even two years later. I still start up new saves on it all the time. I can understand that people like the precision of a mouse for things like CounterStrike, but if everyone else is on an xbox like you then it doesn't matter, you are all on the same playing field. I don't care if I am having fun. I play games to relax, not for any competition.
That said, something like this would encourage me to want to play more PC games than just Minecraft. I like this idea.
My Nexus 4 already wirelessly charges with a magnetic coupling trick. Would that make this invalid?
That's very true of course, but in the debate of morality in machines, I don't think it's completely applicable. That's still immoral humans getting involved.
Very valid point, but if you spend time on it I'm sure it's possible to think of exceptions for everything. If driverless cars are ubiquitous enough as to be made mandatory like the summary suggests, I would assume roads would have to be changed too. Every sidewalk would have to have a barrier or something to obstruct people from getting in to the street. People's behavior would have to change too, to match their environment. By "knowledge a driver could not have", I meant that a computer could draw data from sensors, beacons, and many sources and process all of that data in milliseconds to know what is surrounding it. My car that I drive now has no such sensors, so I rely on my own senses and skills. I would not know if there's a rock in the road around a turn, but if I'm in a driverless car, I would imagine the sensors for that stretch of road would report to my car that there was a non-mobile obstruction in the road and comply accordingly. But this is all speculation.
In the example given, a dilemma between veering off a bridge and hitting a bus, if the vehicles were automatically driven they would both have sensors and software that would be able to prevent this decision from needing to be made in the first place. In every instance I can think of, accidents happen due to driver carelessness, inability, or simply due to knowledge a driver could not have.
Take this scenario. In the world of driverless vehicles, the bus would either send a signal to notify other vehicles it was there, giving the other vehicles ample time to slow down safely or reroute. If it was incapacitated with no power to send a signal, the vehicle should still be equipped to know what obstacles are in the path (since the bus in that case would not be a moving target, the computer in the approaching vehicle should have no problem identifying it even without a beacon). This entire situation would simply not happen. I would imagine if we had the technology for an all driverless highway system, they would be sending and receiving tons of data... enough to know the status of every vehicle in the vicinity and the computing power to calculate how to respond to any changes.
Just an aside, have you tried Feed The Beast? I've been playing that for a while now, and I like it better than the Tekkit pack. It works with Minecraft 1.4.2 and took out some items I felt were overpowered. I love the biomes it added, some of them are simply amazing.
There were lots of Star Wars novels, about Luke bringing back the Jedi, etc. so they have lots of material to work with. They wouldn't even need to dig for story ideas.
For years the closed cell network and intranet have been available in NK, long before Kim Jong Un was even known. They've slowly been adapting things from outside of the country for over a decade now, and even have their own versions of "burger joints". Youtube is blocked where I am, otherwise I'd post links to some videos on there showing them off. This is the same way North Korea has dealt with all technology. When radios were still the main source of media, they were given radios they could not turn off, that played propoganda and "party approved" music. When TV became inevitable they started giving televisions to upstanding members of the party, but they were limited to one channel only and it was illegal to tamper with it. I'm still interested to find out if anything will change in regards to available technology... Kim Jong Un spent lots of time outside the country and grew up with video games, dvds, and most likely, the internet.
The main difference is that it has become widespread to smuggle _real_ phones in to the country from China. They are also getting DVD's from South Korea via China. Many of them are now aware that the rest of the world is not the desolate backwater their government asserted it was.
I did read the chat logs between Manning and Lamo. I don't believe Manning should have done what he did. At the same time, it looked very much to me like Lamo egged him on. Manning clearly had anger, identity and emotional problems. From what I saw in the logs, Lamo played on those, even flirting with him. He spent quite a bit of time trying to get things out of Manning for his own personal gain, like getting a .mil e-mail address. It appears to me that he grabbed what he could from Manning, then used him to get attention.
Not sure if your question is really how tall are they, but in the lore of Lord of the Rings, they were called halflings because they were exactly half the size of the men who named them. If my memory is correct, it was the Numenor, who were tall (about 6' 5" to 7" average). That puts Hobbits at about 3' 2.5" to 3.5'.