in the case of a food service or drinking establishment, either the establishment in which the communication occurs has less than 3,750 gross square feet of space (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose), or the establishment in which the communication occurs has 3,750 gross square feet of space or more (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose)
I don't get it. I'm parsing that as "either under 3750 sq. ft. or 3750 sq. ft. and up"..which, uh, would mean....any size?
If you don't have a paypal account, sign up. You get a free 5 dollar credit.
No you don't. You get a free five dollar credit IF you sign up and IF you put $100 in your account and IF you authorize PayPal to drop that $100 in a money market account that may lose value. And PayPal only tells you about the next step in the process after you complete the previous step--so each time you think "I'll finally get my five bucks!"
Cedar Point seems to have fewer and fewer sane-yet-not-kiddie rides. I was there last year and the only thing I rode was the "mine ride."
Hardly. I think you aren't looking closely enough:) All the woods are still enjoyable: Blue Streak pulls more negative G's than any other coaster in the park besides Millennium Force! Gemini's a good straightforward wood and Mean Streak just rips you apart. Then you've got the metals: the original corkscrew has a thrill quotient all its own because it's so SLOW. You can see everything that's happening. Recommended for those under five feet tall; those seats are murder and the people strapping you in like to compress your spine (look man, I'm IN HERE; I don't need to hunch). But for hands-down best coaster in the park I'd still toss between Magnum and Raptor; Magnum's fast but doesn't depend solely on speed and Raptor's fantastic sensory overload.
Best of all, lines for these coasters are much shorter than the new rides; I usually hit all the coasters once in a day and Raptor five times:)
Now, the park DOES need a rotor, and badly. Spin around and around, paste you to the wall, drop the floor out. Great fun, especially when the die-hard coaster thrillseekers turn green.
Wing Commander is very, very inconsistent. The quoted size of a ship, the size it is based on flytime at a certain speed, and the size it is based on how many of another ship you can line up next to it are almost always three very different numbers. Makes it pretty hard to do a meaningful comparison.
You get 'kicked' when you win.
Been happening for years on all sorts of servers. When I first got Freespace2 I fired up the online play, started a team-vs-team game. Stealth fighters on both sides, but also one SWACS ship per team. Destroy your opponents' SWACS bird, you disappear from their radar.
So of course as soon as I fought through the flak and beams to destroy the ship I got "I can't see you! you cheater! *quit*"
Needless to say I didn't bother playing online much after that.
If you read the ML autocomplete page, the main "feature" in 1.3 is logging what entry people tend to pick from the autocomplete list; this will be fed into development of the ML autocomplete. They have a super-alpha version of the engine in there, sure, but really what you should be doing with 1.3 is feeding them the info. Don't expect intelligent autocompletion.
Starship Troopers was a great film - it really effectively skewered the horrible idiotic ideology and propoganda behind the book. The actors were ideal for the roles, and the directing was second-to-none. The only people who don't like it are those who were gulled by the book into believing fascism could be OK.
Ah, yes, the "the movie skewered the book" crowd. Starship Troopers the movie did not lampoon the book. It did an excellent job of ripping on what the book was most definitively not about. Go read some of Heinlein's essays. Read "Take Back Your Government"--if you can find a copy (apparently the American people don't care enough about the idea of participating in government to buy such a book). Read what he says about ST. And then tell me it's a love song to fascism.
Too many people read Stranger in the 60's and said "Ooooh, here's a remarkable model of what the world should be!" and then dove back to his previous novel to face major disillusionment...because it didn't fit their narrow conception of what Heinlein should be writing. The Starship Troopers movie missed the point. Entirely. It's a little kid pointing at the fully-clothed emporer and saying "he's naked!"
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Maybe we need to define a planet as something relatively big, not orbiting something bigger than itself, and almost alone. e.g. Pluto is a planet because it's pretty much by itself and bigger than anything around it.
Last I checked (and I could be misremembering) the center of mass of the pluto-charon system was outside of Pluto (or at least very close to the surface). By your definition Pluto-Charon would have to be a double-planet system.
I just don't see why people get into such a tizzy over delisting Pluto. Actually the big PR backlash a year or two ago was over giving Pluto dual status--planet and Kuiper Belt object. Pluto isn't a planet...get over it. It was only classified it as such because inaccuracies in orbital calculations predicted a trans-neptunian planet.
I plugged it in and it fired right up
And if my experience is any indication, the next day one of the stupid little tabs that network connector tab hooks into broke off, rendering the whole thing useless.
I hate that aspect of those cards--on the whole they're great but that ONE STUPID LITTLE PIECE OF PLASTIC....argh. Excuse me, I need to go meditate now and transcend this....
The whole point of PFF/PKE (Pluto Fast Flyby, renamed Pluto/Kuiper Express, and now renamed again) was to launch early enough and travel fast enough to get there before Pluto's atmosphere freezes. It's fairly likely this has already happened, and almost a certainty by the time the probe gets there. Shame this project got overlooked and delayed so many times, since next chance will be in about two hundred years.
80% of all militay base property is landscaping and wildlife areas. The other 10% is protected to the level of needed security.
And I think it's the remaining 10% that we need to worry about:)
Since you seem to be looking for fantasy as well as sci-fi, I have to recommend Katharine Kerr's excellent Deverry series. Her site has the lists of the titles, both American and British. A friend introduced me to these a few months ago and they hooked me hard.
Of course Martin's Song of Ice and Fire is great.
number9dream is a very Stephenson-esque and just all-around interesting combination of cyberpunk and coming-of-age novel.
A MOV with an immediate doesn't pull anything over the memory bus other than the instruction and operands which any operation would.
Right, but that's one more byte to pull. Prefetch on the 8088 is 8 bytes; on the 8086 it's 12. Chopping out that extra little byte made a big difference back in the day. And as you say..no advantage to MOV.
Also, what's the one-line unix command (running MacOS X here).
for i in 1 2 3 4; dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1 count=filesize; sync; dd if=/dev/random of=filename bs=1 count=filesize; sync; done
Roughly speaking that'll do it. I'm sure there's nice trickery you can do to, say, get the equivalent of/dev/true (opposite of/dev/zero) and get the size from the file, etc. etc. Note the sync's so it actually hits disc rather than buffer. Technically there should be a sleep or two in there in case of a journalled filesystem....
I know you didn't buy it from Blockbuster, which forces edits of movies. Perhaps if EVERYONE went in and asked for "last temptation of christ" (banned cause it's not christian enough for the owners), we could start a movement.
As others have mentioned, Blockbuster tends to censor NC-17 releases (they had an R cut of showgirls made, for example).
I feel this perverse need to point out the irony of your example. Wayne Huizenga, founder of blockbuster, and Paul Schrader, writer of Last Temptation, both attended Calvin College (my alma mater). Funny how the world works.
How do I know if my DVD set has the incorrect frames? Is there any place to check this?
Is the disc labelled in any way that would indicate it carries "Back to the Future II" or "Back to the Future III"? If yes, it's defective.
"The potential is endless"? It's some really great work, but can it cure cancer? Can it get us to Alpha Centauri in 3 months? No? Well, then the possibilities aren't endless.
Wrong! What you mean to say is that the possibilities aren't limitless. However they (can be) endless. You've enumerated limitations, not termination points. As an analogy, the set of integers is limited (doesn't include pi, e, or 1/2), but still endless. Not particularly formal jargon but, well, neither is the statement with which you quibble:)
I have a different take on it. I think this event was allowed to happen, on purpose, for precisely the "bad" political agenda you can imagine. The most common analogy used for this is 9-11 was a "reichstagg fire" event.
Fascinating. The comparisons to Pearl Harbor may be more appropriate than people intended. Thanks for sharing the link.
I'm sorry, but with the obscurity of these items, it's turned a scavenger hunt from a fun afternoon activity with some purpose into a monumental waste of time, energy, and resources.
I believe that you have nicely put your finger on the whole purpose of the enterprise. It isn't even remotely productive. The point is to pour energy into looking at everything from outside the box. And have fun.
Good question. Original slash article says it was a Master system, but the BBC article has a picture of a model B.
My model B is still in fine working condition, thank you very much, but I don't have a laserdisc player for it. Now, I certinaly wouldn't mind getting my hands on the emulator either...mmmm, Elite....
They were one week away from releasing a demo when Sierra gave them the axe. After that...Sierra said they'd sell the game to Sector 14 (which hastily organized in the wake of their firing), then Sector 14 got funding, then Sierra said they wouldn't, and eventually it slowly dragged into the toilet.
About this time (to bring back to the topic of adventure games), Sierra also announced that Space Quest 7 was canned for the third (fourth?) time and I lost any remaining faith I had in them. Sierra's living on Tribes and Half-Life right now.
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I've had to do that a few times. Once was in French class when this girl was INCESSANTLY talking to me, finally just stood up, said SHUT UP! and slammed a book on her head.
She was probably trying to hit on me but, well, I was in grade six and a geek. And people gave me a little more space after that.
Unfortunately, these days "zero tolerance" means that you can be tormented all day long, but as soon as you push the bully out of your way you're expelled.
IIRC, lp0 on fire occurs when the error line on the parallel port is signalled but none of the specific lines (out of paper, offline, etc....don't recall them all offhand) are signalled. Thus, it's an error, but none of the "planned" ones, so it must be on fire.
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I don't get it. I'm parsing that as "either under 3750 sq. ft. or 3750 sq. ft. and up"..which, uh, would mean....any size?
No you don't. You get a free five dollar credit IF you sign up and IF you put $100 in your account and IF you authorize PayPal to drop that $100 in a money market account that may lose value. And PayPal only tells you about the next step in the process after you complete the previous step--so each time you think "I'll finally get my five bucks!"
No thank you.
Hardly. I think you aren't looking closely enough
Best of all, lines for these coasters are much shorter than the new rides; I usually hit all the coasters once in a day and Raptor five times :)
Now, the park DOES need a rotor, and badly. Spin around and around, paste you to the wall, drop the floor out. Great fun, especially when the die-hard coaster thrillseekers turn green.
Wing Commander is very, very inconsistent. The quoted size of a ship, the size it is based on flytime at a certain speed, and the size it is based on how many of another ship you can line up next to it are almost always three very different numbers. Makes it pretty hard to do a meaningful comparison.
Been happening for years on all sorts of servers. When I first got Freespace2 I fired up the online play, started a team-vs-team game. Stealth fighters on both sides, but also one SWACS ship per team. Destroy your opponents' SWACS bird, you disappear from their radar.
So of course as soon as I fought through the flak and beams to destroy the ship I got "I can't see you! you cheater! *quit*"
Needless to say I didn't bother playing online much after that.
If you read the ML autocomplete page, the main "feature" in 1.3 is logging what entry people tend to pick from the autocomplete list; this will be fed into development of the ML autocomplete. They have a super-alpha version of the engine in there, sure, but really what you should be doing with 1.3 is feeding them the info. Don't expect intelligent autocompletion.
Ah, yes, the "the movie skewered the book" crowd. Starship Troopers the movie did not lampoon the book. It did an excellent job of ripping on what the book was most definitively not about. Go read some of Heinlein's essays. Read "Take Back Your Government"--if you can find a copy (apparently the American people don't care enough about the idea of participating in government to buy such a book). Read what he says about ST. And then tell me it's a love song to fascism.
Too many people read Stranger in the 60's and said "Ooooh, here's a remarkable model of what the world should be!" and then dove back to his previous novel to face major disillusionment...because it didn't fit their narrow conception of what Heinlein should be writing. The Starship Troopers movie missed the point. Entirely. It's a little kid pointing at the fully-clothed emporer and saying "he's naked!"
Last I checked (and I could be misremembering) the center of mass of the pluto-charon system was outside of Pluto (or at least very close to the surface). By your definition Pluto-Charon would have to be a double-planet system.
I just don't see why people get into such a tizzy over delisting Pluto. Actually the big PR backlash a year or two ago was over giving Pluto dual status--planet and Kuiper Belt object. Pluto isn't a planet...get over it. It was only classified it as such because inaccuracies in orbital calculations predicted a trans-neptunian planet.
And if my experience is any indication, the next day one of the stupid little tabs that network connector tab hooks into broke off, rendering the whole thing useless.
I hate that aspect of those cards--on the whole they're great but that ONE STUPID LITTLE PIECE OF PLASTIC....argh. Excuse me, I need to go meditate now and transcend this....
The whole point of PFF/PKE (Pluto Fast Flyby, renamed Pluto/Kuiper Express, and now renamed again) was to launch early enough and travel fast enough to get there before Pluto's atmosphere freezes. It's fairly likely this has already happened, and almost a certainty by the time the probe gets there. Shame this project got overlooked and delayed so many times, since next chance will be in about two hundred years.
80% of all militay base property is landscaping and wildlife areas. The other 10% is protected to the level of needed security. :)
And I think it's the remaining 10% that we need to worry about
Uh...if you're a curious n00b, why don't you drop about a hundred bucks on the R1, subbed and dubbed, box set from ADV?
Not many curious n00bs are going to be importing raw DVD's from Japan.
Since you seem to be looking for fantasy as well as sci-fi, I have to recommend Katharine Kerr's excellent Deverry series. Her site has the lists of the titles, both American and British. A friend introduced me to these a few months ago and they hooked me hard. Of course Martin's Song of Ice and Fire is great. number9dream is a very Stephenson-esque and just all-around interesting combination of cyberpunk and coming-of-age novel.
A MOV with an immediate doesn't pull anything over the memory bus other than the instruction and operands which any operation would.
Right, but that's one more byte to pull. Prefetch on the 8088 is 8 bytes; on the 8086 it's 12. Chopping out that extra little byte made a big difference back in the day. And as you say..no advantage to MOV.
Roughly speaking that'll do it. I'm sure there's nice trickery you can do to, say, get the equivalent of
Nope. It's the land of police that kill black boys on mopeds.
As others have mentioned, Blockbuster tends to censor NC-17 releases (they had an R cut of showgirls made, for example).
I feel this perverse need to point out the irony of your example. Wayne Huizenga, founder of blockbuster, and Paul Schrader, writer of Last Temptation, both attended Calvin College (my alma mater). Funny how the world works.
How do I know if my DVD set has the incorrect frames? Is there any place to check this?
Is the disc labelled in any way that would indicate it carries "Back to the Future II" or "Back to the Future III"? If yes, it's defective.
Wrong! What you mean to say is that the possibilities aren't limitless. However they (can be) endless. You've enumerated limitations, not termination points. As an analogy, the set of integers is limited (doesn't include pi, e, or 1/2), but still endless. Not particularly formal jargon but, well, neither is the statement with which you quibble :)
I have a different take on it. I think this event was allowed to happen, on purpose, for precisely the "bad" political agenda you can imagine. The most common analogy used for this is 9-11 was a "reichstagg fire" event.
Fascinating. The comparisons to Pearl Harbor may be more appropriate than people intended. Thanks for sharing the link.
I'm sorry, but with the obscurity of these items, it's turned a scavenger hunt from a fun afternoon activity with some purpose into a monumental waste of time, energy, and resources.
I believe that you have nicely put your finger on the whole purpose of the enterprise. It isn't even remotely productive. The point is to pour energy into looking at everything from outside the box. And have fun.
Good question. Original slash article says it was a Master system, but the BBC article has a picture of a model B.
My model B is still in fine working condition, thank you very much, but I don't have a laserdisc player for it. Now, I certinaly wouldn't mind getting my hands on the emulator either...mmmm, Elite....
They were one week away from releasing a demo when Sierra gave them the axe. After that...Sierra said they'd sell the game to Sector 14 (which hastily organized in the wake of their firing), then Sector 14 got funding, then Sierra said they wouldn't, and eventually it slowly dragged into the toilet.
About this time (to bring back to the topic of adventure games), Sierra also announced that Space Quest 7 was canned for the third (fourth?) time and I lost any remaining faith I had in them. Sierra's living on Tribes and Half-Life right now.
I've had to do that a few times. Once was in French class when this girl was INCESSANTLY talking to me, finally just stood up, said SHUT UP! and slammed a book on her head.
She was probably trying to hit on me but, well, I was in grade six and a geek. And people gave me a little more space after that.
Unfortunately, these days "zero tolerance" means that you can be tormented all day long, but as soon as you push the bully out of your way you're expelled.
IIRC, lp0 on fire occurs when the error line on the parallel port is signalled but none of the specific lines (out of paper, offline, etc....don't recall them all offhand) are signalled. Thus, it's an error, but none of the "planned" ones, so it must be on fire.