What they did was not "Have Quake run in mode which is faster" but "Have Quake run in mode which has lower quality than it should so it will run faster"
< That is Warner's complaint - that the rental outfits are not paying for the distribution rights on the DVDs (as opposed to the exhibition rights that you would get if you bought a retail copy). >
You're assuming that Warner has the right to restrict rental rights. The current rules for videotapes say that Warner has no such right.
That's a neat trick, considering that the US Constitution says "No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years..."
How is changing the state of the water going to change its mass? Volume will change, but the number of H20 molecules will not. Pressure and temperature will likewise change the volume and/or state of the water, but not the mass.
Well, the original poster refered to defining a kg as the mass of 1 dm^3 of water at STP. So, since mass was defined in terms of volume, anything which affects the volume, will affect the measured mass.
In other words, if the volume changes, it won't affect the real mass of the water, but it will affect the value calculated for the mass of the water.
Wow. I'd gotten the feeling that I was the only slashdotter who'd used Construx (although I also had Lego). But then, when my aunt worked for Fisher-Price, so I had TONS of Construx. I even had an old suitcase I kept them in.
Some people would put it lines of, say, 200 x's or somesuch, which would cause the browser to put in a horizontal scrollbar, which is very annoying./. fixed this by adding in code that would break up any long line of characters. URLs failing is collateral damage.
I remember that game. It's called Castaway, and its available on the interactive fiction archive. The main site ( ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/ ) is going down soon, unfortunately, but there are plenty of mirrors. -----------
What on earth is the point of the 'insert a space you didn't type into your URL' feature? it's right up there with the lameness filter.
If I understand correctly: Some people would make posts containing lines which were hundreds of characters long. Several browers would respond to that by making the window very wide, so readers would have to scroll horizontally on each line. This got very annoying, so the editors changed the code to add in spaces at certain intervals. Since URLs are the commonest very wide thing, the problem shows up most frequently in them.
I'll certainly admit that a brand new vinyl LP played with a brand new needle is going to produce a better-quality sound than a new CD on a new CD player. But on repeated playings, that vinyl record you hold so dear is going to sound worse and worse, even when you change the needle.
Aren't there laser turntables which don't damage the record at all now? -----------
Spoilers below; look at the link value to see text./. trims spaces from links, so there are underscores instead.
No; what they did was sneakier; pt 1pt 2pt 3 That's very good social engineering. -----------
Are you sure that page isn't referring to the OVAs?
(Armitage III was originally created as four episodes. Those are available in Japanese and English. Later they were edited into a single movie. The movie is only available in English.) -----------
No, exactly 50% are below the median (unless a significant fraction are at median). Anywhere from 1 parent to all but one parent could be below average. -----------
Recovering from crash, with full HD backups:
1) Copy most recent tape to new HD.
Recovering from crash, with only data backups:
1) Put it OS CD
2) Install OS
3) Download / put in other CD, and install any other updates for OS. (Updated rpms / debs / whatever for Linux systems, Service Packs for W@#!$%^ based systems, the appropriate thing for other systems.
4) Put in CD for first application
5) Install first application
6) Obtain & Install any updates for first app.
7) Repeat 4-6 for the other twenty applications used.
8) Restore data from backups.
The second method not only requires a user to babysit the computer, it is also more prone to errors (whoops, forgot to install update X to program Y), and will take much longer.
(Although you probably wouldn't update the backups of the areas that hold executables as often, since those generally aren't changed as much.) -----------
Look for a book called "Beat the Dealer", by Thorpe. He gives a strategy that would enable a player to beat the odds (until the casinos changed their rules shortly afterwards). There's a simplified strategy that doesn't require counting cards, but it has a slightly negative payoff.
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Actually, it's possible to get Netscape working again without rebooting:
Under Linux (and presumably any other Unix):
skill -9 netscape
Under Windows:
Ctl-Alt-Del
Choose Task Manager
Select Netscape (it will probably say [Not Responding] next to it)
Choose "End Process"
Wait a few seconds
A window will popup saying that Netscape isn't responding, and asks if you want to kill it or wait. Choose to kill it.
If that window doesn't appear, go back to Task Manager and try again.
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What they did was not "Have Quake run in mode which is faster" but "Have Quake run in mode which has lower quality than it should so it will run faster"
You're assuming that Warner has the right to restrict rental rights. The current rules for videotapes say that Warner has no such right.
Actually, Open With appears in 9X/NT, but only if you haven't already assigned a viewer for that type.
That's a neat trick, considering that the US Constitution says "No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years..."
Umm, there wasn't a real plot in Ultima I. You didn't really see games developing plots for some years after that.
That looks like the same kind of router I use; it actually forwards 10 ranges of ports.
Well, the original poster refered to defining a kg as the mass of 1 dm^3 of water at STP. So, since mass was defined in terms of volume, anything which affects the volume, will affect the measured mass. In other words, if the volume changes, it won't affect the real mass of the water, but it will affect the value calculated for the mass of the water.
A spammer could put a few random characters into each message so that all the checksums would be different.
Wow. I'd gotten the feeling that I was the only slashdotter who'd used Construx (although I also had Lego). But then, when my aunt worked for Fisher-Price, so I had TONS of Construx. I even had an old suitcase I kept them in.
Except that egcs was based off gcc, and I think it stands for Extended GNU Compiler System.
Some people would put it lines of, say, 200 x's or somesuch, which would cause the browser to put in a horizontal scrollbar, which is very annoying. /. fixed this by adding in code that would break up any long line of characters. URLs failing is collateral damage.
She died in 1976. But since she was British, I don't think the US laws would be very useful.
I remember that game. It's called Castaway, and its available on the interactive fiction archive. The main site ( ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/ ) is going down soon, unfortunately, but there are plenty of mirrors.
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If I understand correctly: Some people would make posts containing lines which were hundreds of characters long. Several browers would respond to that by making the window very wide, so readers would have to scroll horizontally on each line. This got very annoying, so the editors changed the code to add in spaces at certain intervals. Since URLs are the commonest very wide thing, the problem shows up most frequently in them.
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Aren't there laser turntables which don't damage the record at all now?
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Spoilers below; look at the link value to see text. /. trims spaces from links, so there are underscores instead.
No; what they did was sneakier; pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 That's very good social engineering.
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Well nobody expects light bouncing off themselves near a window to be private, so that wouldn't be protected.
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Are you sure that page isn't referring to the OVAs? (Armitage III was originally created as four episodes. Those are available in Japanese and English. Later they were edited into a single movie. The movie is only available in English.)
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Well, I believe that it was originally Library GPL; although now RMS prefers to call it the Lesser GPL.
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No, exactly 50% are below the median (unless a significant fraction are at median). Anywhere from 1 parent to all but one parent could be below average.
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Recovering from crash, with full HD backups: 1) Copy most recent tape to new HD. Recovering from crash, with only data backups: 1) Put it OS CD 2) Install OS 3) Download / put in other CD, and install any other updates for OS. (Updated rpms / debs / whatever for Linux systems, Service Packs for W@#!$%^ based systems, the appropriate thing for other systems. 4) Put in CD for first application 5) Install first application 6) Obtain & Install any updates for first app. 7) Repeat 4-6 for the other twenty applications used. 8) Restore data from backups. The second method not only requires a user to babysit the computer, it is also more prone to errors (whoops, forgot to install update X to program Y), and will take much longer. (Although you probably wouldn't update the backups of the areas that hold executables as often, since those generally aren't changed as much.)
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I think that happened when Apple Computers started to make sound hardware, which could be construed as crossing the line.
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Look for a book called "Beat the Dealer", by Thorpe. He gives a strategy that would enable a player to beat the odds (until the casinos changed their rules shortly afterwards). There's a simplified strategy that doesn't require counting cards, but it has a slightly negative payoff.
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Well, have you tried babelfish.altavista.com yet? While the translation isn't the greatest, it will give you an idea what is written.
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Actually, it's possible to get Netscape working again without rebooting:
Under Linux (and presumably any other Unix):
skill -9 netscape
Under Windows:
Ctl-Alt-Del
Choose Task Manager
Select Netscape (it will probably say [Not Responding] next to it)
Choose "End Process"
Wait a few seconds
A window will popup saying that Netscape isn't responding, and asks if you want to kill it or wait. Choose to kill it.
If that window doesn't appear, go back to Task Manager and try again.
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