One of the CD drives in an old PowerMac I used scratched CDs up. It would leave a small ring of scratches about half way from the center, due to the smaller recess for mini CDs in the tray. Unfortunately I didn't figure this out until it had damaged around 30 or more of my audio CDs. I taught it a good lesson once I discovered that. Very frustrating.
As a reminder, video games (and movies and music) all involve at most virtual violence. Virtual violence is imaginary, and thus does not actually harm anyone. If video games involved real violence, people would be assaulted daily by them (playing CD frisbee doesn't count).
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
Thanks for your reply. My approach with medicine is similar; the question I ask the doctor is "if I don't take this, will there be any long-term problem?". If it's just to make me feel better in the short-term, I'd rather not take it. Once I fell on my chin and busted it open. It required stitches and the doctor was happy to do so without using any numbing drugs. He also went along with not giving me any antibiotic while it healed, telling me what to watch for in case it did become infected.
"I don't get very sick these days, but when I do - even if it's a really bad cold or flu that's knocking people about here and there, and there's warnings about it on the news, fairly common around here during the winter months - I tend to get better within fourty-eight hours. "
That's the thing; how do you know that you're even catching whatever these people have gotten that's kept them in bed for days? It could be that all your apparent efforts for your health have nothing to do with your lack of extended illness.
"That is why some say that not taking the full dose of antibiotics and using antibiotic soaps in homes can lead to the breeding of super-bacteria."
Just to elaborate on this, since I find it interesting, the worst enemy of these super-bacteria are their own relatives, since they must all share the same resources that keep them viable. The best way to prevent drug-resistant bacteria from becoming great in number is to keep them bogged down with their non-resistant relatives. The "weak" bacteria are beneficial here, so you don't want to wipe them out unless they're all causing problems. And then when you use the drug, you want to use it in full force so that all the bacteria are wiped out. If you keep using the drug or use it in small amounts regularly, you kill the "weaker" bacteria, making more room for the super-bacteria to thrive.
"Sure am glad I've only purchased indie cd's in the last few years! Apparently not only do the big companies cram crappy music down your ears, but they also cram crappy software into your computer. "
Yes, but you have apparently had Windows on your machine the whole time.
"I suggest Lego shift the current block format a millimeter or so. That way it can cripple interoperability with mega blocks' products and further lock in customers."
Yeah, but imagine the awful adaptors to convert between legacy LEGO and the new improved LEGO. It's a good thing that hasn't happened with software. Oh... wait...
At first I thought this might be a way to regulate the thickness of the bubbles, and thus the color generated due to canceling of light within a narrow band (as is shown on the cover of Feynman's QED). Apparently it's just plain old coloring (but I haven't RTFA yet, naturally), which yields much darker colors than the above could.
These likely detect the state of thinking you're lying, which can go both ways: you train yourself to lie without even knowing it and thus go undetected, or in the tense situation of being thought a liar, you think you are and get falsely flagged. Regarding the latter, who hasn't experienced enough pressure to temporarily lose confidence in one's own sense of a situation?
I'm glad the device has "LAPTOP" in large type printed on it, otherwise I'd never figure out what it was. Electronic briefcase? Typewriter? By jove, it's a laptop!
"Sometimes I think that people feel that the MPAA is a bunch of Luddites," Brad Hunt, chief technical officer of the MPAA, said in an interview Wednesday afternoon. "In this case, we are trying to incent the consumer to embrace the digital conversion, the digital connection...and that's why we need to drive this technology forward."
Of all the disingenuous malarky. "Incent the consumer".
I think they actually meant "incite", as in piss them off.
Poor college student's version:
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Connect the speakers directly to ethernet. On the upside, you can hear problems with the network. On the downside, all you hear is buzzing.
"Siting = choosing the location of something. Citing = quoting a reference. I think this is what the original poster was getting at. Sighting = seeing something."
"Rather than taking RMS's short-sighted 'no patents at all' approach"
Perhaps considered it better to allow them only after a careful strategy had been designed?
"If RMS could have fought against copyright protection, he would have--after all, 'information wants to be free,' right?"
Actually, it's the BSD folks who have no need for copyrights. Without copyright the GPL couldn't require distribution of modified source without copyright; people would be free to release executables based on unreleased modifications to code.
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"on Janet Jackson's tit. "
Only one??? I must be out of the loop.
"[...] with over 2 million tracks for purchase"
I can actually purchase the song and own it? Also, shouldn't this article be filed under microsoft.slashdot.org rather than apple.slashdot.org?
...I reach for microsoft.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Good thing I saw as I was leaving on my vacation to Pluto; I hadn't packed any winter clothing. Thanks Slashdot!
One of the CD drives in an old PowerMac I used scratched CDs up. It would leave a small ring of scratches about half way from the center, due to the smaller recess for mini CDs in the tray. Unfortunately I didn't figure this out until it had damaged around 30 or more of my audio CDs. I taught it a good lesson once I discovered that. Very frustrating.
As a reminder, video games (and movies and music) all involve at most virtual violence. Virtual violence is imaginary, and thus does not actually harm anyone. If video games involved real violence, people would be assaulted daily by them (playing CD frisbee doesn't count).
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
Thanks for your reply. My approach with medicine is similar; the question I ask the doctor is "if I don't take this, will there be any long-term problem?". If it's just to make me feel better in the short-term, I'd rather not take it. Once I fell on my chin and busted it open. It required stitches and the doctor was happy to do so without using any numbing drugs. He also went along with not giving me any antibiotic while it healed, telling me what to watch for in case it did become infected.
Bah! Around here, we refer to things like Earthdust and Earthdirt, as in "Don't get the place Earthdirty", or "I'm about to Earthdust the house".
"I don't get very sick these days, but when I do - even if it's a really bad cold or flu that's knocking people about here and there, and there's warnings about it on the news, fairly common around here during the winter months - I tend to get better within fourty-eight hours. "
That's the thing; how do you know that you're even catching whatever these people have gotten that's kept them in bed for days? It could be that all your apparent efforts for your health have nothing to do with your lack of extended illness.
"That is why some say that not taking the full dose of antibiotics and using antibiotic soaps in homes can lead to the breeding of super-bacteria."
Just to elaborate on this, since I find it interesting, the worst enemy of these super-bacteria are their own relatives, since they must all share the same resources that keep them viable. The best way to prevent drug-resistant bacteria from becoming great in number is to keep them bogged down with their non-resistant relatives. The "weak" bacteria are beneficial here, so you don't want to wipe them out unless they're all causing problems. And then when you use the drug, you want to use it in full force so that all the bacteria are wiped out. If you keep using the drug or use it in small amounts regularly, you kill the "weaker" bacteria, making more room for the super-bacteria to thrive.
"Sure am glad I've only purchased indie cd's in the last few years! Apparently not only do the big companies cram crappy music down your ears, but they also cram crappy software into your computer. "
Yes, but you have apparently had Windows on your machine the whole time.
Success for the lawyers, of course, as almost all laws these days are.
"Video Encoded Invisible Light (VEIL)"
Why, that light bulb isn't burned out, it's just switched to ILM (invisible light mode)!
But seriously, I feel like a veil has been pulled over my eyes, and for some reason it feels like there is something evil behind this scheme.
"I suggest Lego shift the current block format a millimeter or so. That way it can cripple interoperability with mega blocks' products and further lock in customers."
Yeah, but imagine the awful adaptors to convert between legacy LEGO and the new improved LEGO. It's a good thing that hasn't happened with software. Oh... wait...
"They underprice me, steal some business and then go bankrupt and sell everything at half price. In 3 years I've outlived 7 such competitors."
Come on, you did so well with the rest of your post; they diverted some of your previous customers, not stole.
At first I thought this might be a way to regulate the thickness of the bubbles, and thus the color generated due to canceling of light within a narrow band (as is shown on the cover of Feynman's QED). Apparently it's just plain old coloring (but I haven't RTFA yet, naturally), which yields much darker colors than the above could.
These likely detect the state of thinking you're lying, which can go both ways: you train yourself to lie without even knowing it and thus go undetected, or in the tense situation of being thought a liar, you think you are and get falsely flagged. Regarding the latter, who hasn't experienced enough pressure to temporarily lose confidence in one's own sense of a situation?
I'm glad the device has "LAPTOP" in large type printed on it, otherwise I'd never figure out what it was. Electronic briefcase? Typewriter? By jove, it's a laptop!
"Sometimes I think that people feel that the MPAA is a bunch of Luddites," Brad Hunt, chief technical officer of the MPAA, said in an interview Wednesday afternoon. "In this case, we are trying to incent the consumer to embrace the digital conversion, the digital connection...and that's why we need to drive this technology forward."
Of all the disingenuous malarky. "Incent the consumer".
I think they actually meant "incite", as in piss them off.
Connect the speakers directly to ethernet. On the upside, you can hear problems with the network. On the downside, all you hear is buzzing.
"Siting = choosing the location of something.
Citing = quoting a reference. I think this is what the original poster was getting at.
Sighting = seeing something."
Sitting = wasting time reading Slashdot all day
"There is something wrong when "OMGWTFBBQLOL" gives me results.... 41 to be exact "
And now 43.
"Every internal component was redesigned and packed into every millimeter of the space inside."
Wow, this thing is so small that it's only one-dimensional!
"Rather than taking RMS's short-sighted 'no patents at all' approach"
Perhaps considered it better to allow them only after a careful strategy had been designed?
"If RMS could have fought against copyright protection, he would have--after all, 'information wants to be free,' right?"
Actually, it's the BSD folks who have no need for copyrights. Without copyright the GPL couldn't require distribution of modified source without copyright; people would be free to release executables based on unreleased modifications to code.