Your friend was doing it wrong. The intoxicant helps draw connections between things you wouldn't've necessarily thought to connect beforehand, gives you ideas, sends you off in an unexpected direction.
The work that derives from that initial idea, the actual making stuff of it, should be done sober.
If a message is "encoded" it doesn't imply one way or another whether it had been decoded at some point. Just because the message is "encoded" doesn't mean it hasn't been decoded; decoding a message doesn't change the state of the original message as it's still encoded.
Personally? Uniball Micro. Perfect balance of usability, ink color, balance, weight, etc. I'm left-handed, too, so quick-drying ink is essential.
I find most "fancy" pens to be too large, preferring a narrow, unadorned barrel. I write a lot, and each pen lasts months. And their blue ink is gorgeous.
I have boxes of them in storage in case they ever stop being made.
It seems strange to pay less for a 7" iPad mini than a 3" iPod touch.
a 4th gen iPod is $199; 5th gen is $299. Slotting a tablet between those two makes sense, especially considering that they serve different purposes and speak to different consumers.
But why go after Romney for "arguably" blowing off one out of his 4 years in office, and not after Obama who blew off 3 of 6? BOTH used it as a political stepping stone, this isnt unusual.
Romney kept his job as governor and ignored his position and the commonwealth he was entrusted to protect for a year to run for president. Obama resigned his position to run. There's a big difference between those two courses of action.
Sorry guys, but you're a bit late - Slashdot hasn't been this kind of community in a decade, and even if it was, the whole point of the place (Natalie Portman and grits aside) is that we don't have to interact with actual people to talk about tech stuff.
Crap like this is unsettling. We're not FARKers. We don't interact IRL.
It's like you have no idea who your readership is.
Seriously people, stop suggesting typewriters - they're a bitch to repair assuming you can get parts, which you probably can't, are way overbuilt for what he requires of them and, at this point, probably cost more than his $50 budget anyway; all he needs is a qwerty layout with error-checking to make sure the kids are on the right track.
Just because something is mechanical or non-powered doesn't mean it's simpler, easier, or cheaper. Try to answer his actual question without getting all condescending about it.
The judge recused himself. He didn't step down. It might be a difference in international terminology, but I saw the headline and assumed the judge had left his position as a judge.
At my company, you write an evaluation for your manager in which you rank yourself as either needing improvement, meeting expectations or exceeding expectations on a variety of points, while your manager simultaneously fills out pretty much the same evaluation of you.
And then both evaluations are handed to a senior person in the office who doesn't actually know you that well or what you do, who gives you exactly the same, barely cost-of-living raise as everybody else he doesn't work directly with, regardless of what the paperwork actually said.
Blizzard tried this in WoW, sort of, in a super-clever way.
Battlegrounds used to provide no XP when in them, so it was possible to hit the top level of a bracket through quests and such, outfit yourself with the best gear for that level you could find, and just sit at that level decimating all the normal players you'd end up fighting against. "Twinking."
But Blizzard turned on XP gains in battlegrounds, so if you did that, you would eventually level out of that bracket and into the next one. BUT. They also put in the ability to turn off your XP gain, effectively a "twinking switch." BUT, if you did that, you would only be matched up against other twinked out players in battlegrounds.
The result? Twinking pretty much died off. Why? Because it isn't as much fun when you can't just ROFLSTOMP the competition, and fighting fair isn't fun.
Not trolling, promise, but I've never understood why somebody would want to print a photo onto a canvas. They always end up looking chintzier than the original for the sake of the illusion of fine art.
The WotLK launch was bad. It was also 5 years ago. The Cataclysm launch was completely painless - log out at midnight, log back in, start playing.
Things keep getting smoother is all I'm saying.
When I was writing academic papers, occasionally on writings I could not possibly give two shits about, the one thing that kept me interested with the whole process was knowing that I would be sharing concepts, spring from my very own brain, with another human which is the core of it; sharing information is whole point of writing shit down in the first place.
If I had been told my essays wouldn't bee seen by an actual teacher and wouldn't have any chance of informing somebody else, ever, I would have stopped caring.
All the time I'm hit with this feeling that I'm living in the future, but this story reminded me that the future is fucking depressing sometimes.
Diablo 3 has a Real Money Auction House baked in - allowing the client to be run without Blizzard keeping tabs on item creation and the whatnot would destroy the market.
In that case, an internet connection is the price of progress. It's also the thing that potentially lets you make a buck back from the game. Play or not, buy it or not, but that's why.
"In an exclusive Transatlantic Skype conversation with"
Ooh, transatlantic! You kids and your computers nowadays. I bet you watch TV in color, too.
Seriously, in what way is the fact that it's equivalently an international phone call in any way relevant? The goalposts have changed; you only get to mention location that prominently if you're Skyping to somewhere that a stable internet connection isn't common, like a war zone, the middle of a rainforest, or orbit.
Because infringement is very easy to do unintentionally, as Representative Smith found out, I feel there needs to be a safe-harbor course of action. If infringement is removed within (picks a number from thin air) seven days, then the infringement should be presumed to be unintentional and not liable for any damages. Furthermore, there should be a process where an alleged infringer can say to an accuser, "No, you've got it all wrong. I have a right to use this because of [insert reason here]." The matter would be settled either inside or outside of courts, using well-established procedures from Civil Law, but the matter would eventually be settled.
The bone-jarringly stupid thing about this whole mess is, what you describe is more or less the way a DMCA takedown request works NOW - a copyright holder claims their work is being infringed and the site hosting the material pulls it pending review. If it's infringing (ie, if the infringing user can't explain why it isn't) it stays down and if it isn't it's reinstated.
That's the biggest problem with this whack-a-doodle bill - the measures in place to deal with copyright currently work perfectly well for everybody except gigantic corporations with too much copyrighted material to effectively police.
Also, the government would have to either pay for everyone to have internet access, provide some sort of subsidy for those who can't afford internet access, start it's own ISP which would end up directly competing with private companies, or nationalize all ISPs.
Comcast already does offer cheap internet connections in hardship cases and subsidizes the computer required for it under congressional mandate, but ignoring that for a second: Access doesn't mean running fiber to every house in a neighborhood, it means making sure libraries have free and unrestricted access to computers connected to the net and can more-or-less meet demand.
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Spatchcock it, obv.
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/11/how-to-spatchcock-a-turkey-thanksgiving-butterflying-roasting-recipe.html
Your friend was doing it wrong. The intoxicant helps draw connections between things you wouldn't've necessarily thought to connect beforehand, gives you ideas, sends you off in an unexpected direction.
The work that derives from that initial idea, the actual making stuff of it, should be done sober.
If a message is "encoded" it doesn't imply one way or another whether it had been decoded at some point. Just because the message is "encoded" doesn't mean it hasn't been decoded; decoding a message doesn't change the state of the original message as it's still encoded.
Undecoded is more precise.
Personally? Uniball Micro. Perfect balance of usability, ink color, balance, weight, etc. I'm left-handed, too, so quick-drying ink is essential.
I find most "fancy" pens to be too large, preferring a narrow, unadorned barrel. I write a lot, and each pen lasts months. And their blue ink is gorgeous.
I have boxes of them in storage in case they ever stop being made.
It seems strange to pay less for a 7" iPad mini than a 3" iPod touch.
a 4th gen iPod is $199; 5th gen is $299. Slotting a tablet between those two makes sense, especially considering that they serve different purposes and speak to different consumers.
But why go after Romney for "arguably" blowing off one out of his 4 years in office, and not after Obama who blew off 3 of 6? BOTH used it as a political stepping stone, this isnt unusual.
Romney kept his job as governor and ignored his position and the commonwealth he was entrusted to protect for a year to run for president. Obama resigned his position to run. There's a big difference between those two courses of action.
Sorry guys, but you're a bit late - Slashdot hasn't been this kind of community in a decade, and even if it was, the whole point of the place (Natalie Portman and grits aside) is that we don't have to interact with actual people to talk about tech stuff.
Crap like this is unsettling. We're not FARKers. We don't interact IRL.
It's like you have no idea who your readership is.
Seriously people, stop suggesting typewriters - they're a bitch to repair assuming you can get parts, which you probably can't, are way overbuilt for what he requires of them and, at this point, probably cost more than his $50 budget anyway; all he needs is a qwerty layout with error-checking to make sure the kids are on the right track.
Just because something is mechanical or non-powered doesn't mean it's simpler, easier, or cheaper. Try to answer his actual question without getting all condescending about it.
--Triv
the video gives it an 50mph top speed and a 90-125 mile range.
The judge recused himself. He didn't step down. It might be a difference in international terminology, but I saw the headline and assumed the judge had left his position as a judge.
At my company, you write an evaluation for your manager in which you rank yourself as either needing improvement, meeting expectations or exceeding expectations on a variety of points, while your manager simultaneously fills out pretty much the same evaluation of you.
And then both evaluations are handed to a senior person in the office who doesn't actually know you that well or what you do, who gives you exactly the same, barely cost-of-living raise as everybody else he doesn't work directly with, regardless of what the paperwork actually said.
The disconnect is startling.
Twinking wasn't against the rules, no, but it wasn't especially fair, either. Zoom out a bit and it applies here, too.
Blizzard tried this in WoW, sort of, in a super-clever way.
Battlegrounds used to provide no XP when in them, so it was possible to hit the top level of a bracket through quests and such, outfit yourself with the best gear for that level you could find, and just sit at that level decimating all the normal players you'd end up fighting against. "Twinking."
But Blizzard turned on XP gains in battlegrounds, so if you did that, you would eventually level out of that bracket and into the next one. BUT. They also put in the ability to turn off your XP gain, effectively a "twinking switch." BUT, if you did that, you would only be matched up against other twinked out players in battlegrounds.
The result? Twinking pretty much died off. Why? Because it isn't as much fun when you can't just ROFLSTOMP the competition, and fighting fair isn't fun.
Working pretty much as intended, in my opinion.
--Triv
Not trolling, promise, but I've never understood why somebody would want to print a photo onto a canvas. They always end up looking chintzier than the original for the sake of the illusion of fine art.
Is there something I'm missing?
I don't care if websites are "wiretap-ready." Phones already are.
What I care about is if data can be collected (not used; COLLECTED) from these sites wiretap-ready sites without a warrant.
+10 nerd points for the Delorean used as a size reference.
Cable internet actively competes with DSL and FiOS IN YOUR AREA.
My internet options are:
Comcast, 15Mb down
Verizon DSL, 1.5Mb down (though in practice it was half that.)
Or dial-up.
No FIOS.
In a city of 200,000 people.
The WotLK launch was bad. It was also 5 years ago. The Cataclysm launch was completely painless - log out at midnight, log back in, start playing. Things keep getting smoother is all I'm saying.
When I was writing academic papers, occasionally on writings I could not possibly give two shits about, the one thing that kept me interested with the whole process was knowing that I would be sharing concepts, spring from my very own brain, with another human which is the core of it; sharing information is whole point of writing shit down in the first place.
If I had been told my essays wouldn't bee seen by an actual teacher and wouldn't have any chance of informing somebody else, ever, I would have stopped caring.
All the time I'm hit with this feeling that I'm living in the future, but this story reminded me that the future is fucking depressing sometimes.
Diablo 3 has a Real Money Auction House baked in - allowing the client to be run without Blizzard keeping tabs on item creation and the whatnot would destroy the market. In that case, an internet connection is the price of progress. It's also the thing that potentially lets you make a buck back from the game. Play or not, buy it or not, but that's why.
VERY NSFW, btw.
"In an exclusive Transatlantic Skype conversation with"
Ooh, transatlantic! You kids and your computers nowadays. I bet you watch TV in color, too.
Seriously, in what way is the fact that it's equivalently an international phone call in any way relevant? The goalposts have changed; you only get to mention location that prominently if you're Skyping to somewhere that a stable internet connection isn't common, like a war zone, the middle of a rainforest, or orbit.
Perhaps "Postage Pals Push Petition, Pushing Pluto Probe Postage" preferred, possibly?
Because infringement is very easy to do unintentionally, as Representative Smith found out, I feel there needs to be a safe-harbor course of action. If infringement is removed within (picks a number from thin air) seven days, then the infringement should be presumed to be unintentional and not liable for any damages. Furthermore, there should be a process where an alleged infringer can say to an accuser, "No, you've got it all wrong. I have a right to use this because of [insert reason here]." The matter would be settled either inside or outside of courts, using well-established procedures from Civil Law, but the matter would eventually be settled.
The bone-jarringly stupid thing about this whole mess is, what you describe is more or less the way a DMCA takedown request works NOW - a copyright holder claims their work is being infringed and the site hosting the material pulls it pending review. If it's infringing (ie, if the infringing user can't explain why it isn't) it stays down and if it isn't it's reinstated.
That's the biggest problem with this whack-a-doodle bill - the measures in place to deal with copyright currently work perfectly well for everybody except gigantic corporations with too much copyrighted material to effectively police.
Also, the government would have to either pay for everyone to have internet access, provide some sort of subsidy for those who can't afford internet access, start it's own ISP which would end up directly competing with private companies, or nationalize all ISPs.
Comcast already does offer cheap internet connections in hardship cases and subsidizes the computer required for it under congressional mandate, but ignoring that for a second: Access doesn't mean running fiber to every house in a neighborhood, it means making sure libraries have free and unrestricted access to computers connected to the net and can more-or-less meet demand.
Big difference, there.