Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 had keyboard and mouse support (I know, because I had keyboard and mouse on both), and I think Playstation 4 does too. Didn't seem to kill the controller market there. In fact, Logitech made a keyboard/controller combo for the PS2; I still have mine.
Walk? Bike? When I was in high school, the high school was about five miles away from where we lived. The same was true with junior high, as a matter of fact. This is far from uncommon in the US. People from Europe often don't grasp how *big* the US is until they come here, and then they wonder why we don't walk anywhere. The answer is that it's almost always too damn far.
Yep. It's a lot of fun exploring abandoned buildings. Assuming it's actually abandoned and in disrepair and there was no actual forced entry. Exploring abandoned factories and shit is a lot of fun.
Sfill illegal as hell, but hey, it's a lot of fun. Hint: Forced entry is not required to be guilty of trespassing. It can be an additional charge on top of trespassing if it occurred, but trespassing is a prosecutable offense without it. If it's private property that's not yours and you have any reason to believe that the owner doesn't want you there--it's trespassing.
That is definitely NOT true. If the crime were never prosecuted, every shady business operator would be selling pirated copies of everything he could just to make an easy buck.
We know this because it's happened in the past with books. It's even easier to do now, so of course it would happen.
It *does* happen. In many countries, it's actually difficult to find an honest copy of a movie or software. They're massively outnumbered by the pirate sellers.
No, they don't actively want that. They just don't care. Requiring helmets means either they pay for them (obviously bad) or the customers pay for them (which means fewer customers). So of course they're actively lobbying against it.
Yes, it is. And I would expect a well-written news article about it to explain CIA stands for "Central Intelligence Agency" and give a short description of what it is. I may already know these things, but the article should not make such assumptions.
around a quarter (26%) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their cellphone.
I'm amazed that that many had a cellphone that would let them do that. Neither of my two cellphones will allow Facebook to be deleted. I'd like to, because I've never used it and never will.
What do you call people who rip you off on trade to the tune of $150 billion every year?
I call them "trade partners". I also call people who regard a trade deficit as "ripping off" "abyssmally ignorant of the basic facts of economics." A trade deficit is when a country sends us more good then we send them--for which they take dollars that *we print*. This is bad?
On the positive note, as least you can blame the outage on Microsoft and not take the heat yourself for Exchange crashing and being down for 4.5 hours.
Ah, but your boss will tell you it was your decision to depend on a vendor who turned out to be undependable, making it your fault. And if it was in fact your decision and not something you argued against and was overridden, he has a point.
There used to be books of nothing but tables of logarithms and other mathematical tables, like trig functions. You used them when you needed more significant places in your answer than a slide rule could give you. I still have the one my dad used in college. They don't make those any more.
I-95 should go straight thru DC like it does in Baltimore and NYC
It was originally planned to, of course. I-395 was originally I-95, but they only got it as far as US Route 50 before local politics brought it to a screeching halt and faced with the fact that the rest of it would never be built, they had to designate part of the Beltway (I-495) as I-95, and the designation I-395 was created for the unfinished road through DC. I remember how there used to be signs on I-395 that said "old I-95" (I don't remember the I-95 signs for it--the designation was changed in the late 1970s and I'm not quite old enough to have been driving it back then.)
I need to plan the entire trip around what time I'll be going thru DC -- it's that bad.
Rerouting I-95 to the Beltway means it has to cross the Potomac via Wilson Bridge. Isn't having a major Interstate artery cross a drawbridge fun? At least they rebuilt it higher so it doesn't have to open as often--it used to open almost daily.
"I have never had my product hacked" That doesn't mean it is secure. Just that it wasn't a target, or compatible with the common forms of hacking.
Or, also quite likely, you never realized you were hacked, either because they covered their tracks too well, because you were just too incompetent to properly check, or just because you refused to listen to poor beleaguered sysadmin who tried to tell what was going on.
They want it both ways. "You can't blame us for the content, we're not a publisher" and "You can't blame us, look at all we're doing to solve the problem" Typical corporate CYA--claim all the arguments you can, even if they contradict each other.
Entirely correct except for the fact that you got the tense wrong. We *had* a secret ballot. With phonemail voting, you can't prevent outside parties from insisting that they see how you voted (yes, this is also a problem with absentee ballots, which is why they used to be strictly controlled; a precaution which is now almost completely worn away).
I honestly don't get why our species craves this stone so much.
Because DeBeers wants you to. Their high pressure ad campaigns that they started in the early twentieth century created the idea of the diamond as the most valuable precious gem (before that, rubies and emeralds were generally regarded as more valuable). They also created the idea of the diamond engagement ring and managed to make it pretty much mandatory.
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Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 had keyboard and mouse support (I know, because I had keyboard and mouse on both), and I think Playstation 4 does too. Didn't seem to kill the controller market there. In fact, Logitech made a keyboard/controller combo for the PS2; I still have mine.
Walk? Bike? When I was in high school, the high school was about five miles away from where we lived. The same was true with junior high, as a matter of fact. This is far from uncommon in the US. People from Europe often don't grasp how *big* the US is until they come here, and then they wonder why we don't walk anywhere. The answer is that it's almost always too damn far.
Sfill illegal as hell, but hey, it's a lot of fun. Hint: Forced entry is not required to be guilty of trespassing. It can be an additional charge on top of trespassing if it occurred, but trespassing is a prosecutable offense without it. If it's private property that's not yours and you have any reason to believe that the owner doesn't want you there--it's trespassing.
Amazing that they've kept finding an FTL communication method this quiet.
It *does* happen. In many countries, it's actually difficult to find an honest copy of a movie or software. They're massively outnumbered by the pirate sellers.
"My name is /bin/grep. You kill -9'd my parent. Prepare to die."
I personally am offended by "male" and "female" connectors. That's sexist!
No, they don't actively want that. They just don't care. Requiring helmets means either they pay for them (obviously bad) or the customers pay for them (which means fewer customers). So of course they're actively lobbying against it.
Yes, it is. And I would expect a well-written news article about it to explain CIA stands for "Central Intelligence Agency" and give a short description of what it is. I may already know these things, but the article should not make such assumptions.
I'm amazed that that many had a cellphone that would let them do that. Neither of my two cellphones will allow Facebook to be deleted. I'd like to, because I've never used it and never will.
I call them "trade partners". I also call people who regard a trade deficit as "ripping off" "abyssmally ignorant of the basic facts of economics." A trade deficit is when a country sends us more good then we send them--for which they take dollars that *we print*. This is bad?
Ah, but your boss will tell you it was your decision to depend on a vendor who turned out to be undependable, making it your fault. And if it was in fact your decision and not something you argued against and was overridden, he has a point.
Next question, please.
There used to be books of nothing but tables of logarithms and other mathematical tables, like trig functions. You used them when you needed more significant places in your answer than a slide rule could give you. I still have the one my dad used in college. They don't make those any more.
It was originally planned to, of course. I-395 was originally I-95, but they only got it as far as US Route 50 before local politics brought it to a screeching halt and faced with the fact that the rest of it would never be built, they had to designate part of the Beltway (I-495) as I-95, and the designation I-395 was created for the unfinished road through DC. I remember how there used to be signs on I-395 that said "old I-95" (I don't remember the I-95 signs for it--the designation was changed in the late 1970s and I'm not quite old enough to have been driving it back then.)
Rerouting I-95 to the Beltway means it has to cross the Potomac via Wilson Bridge. Isn't having a major Interstate artery cross a drawbridge fun? At least they rebuilt it higher so it doesn't have to open as often--it used to open almost daily.
Does that mean I can get admin privileges with the password "supersuperprof"?
Or, also quite likely, you never realized you were hacked, either because they covered their tracks too well, because you were just too incompetent to properly check, or just because you refused to listen to poor beleaguered sysadmin who tried to tell what was going on.
Just say no to robophilia.
No, it doesn't. It does however, have a 20mm Vulcan autocannon.
They want it both ways. "You can't blame us for the content, we're not a publisher" and "You can't blame us, look at all we're doing to solve the problem" Typical corporate CYA--claim all the arguments you can, even if they contradict each other.
Entirely correct except for the fact that you got the tense wrong. We *had* a secret ballot. With phonemail voting, you can't prevent outside parties from insisting that they see how you voted (yes, this is also a problem with absentee ballots, which is why they used to be strictly controlled; a precaution which is now almost completely worn away).
...but I need to get in one more game of Overwatch before I go to bed.
To the vector belong the spoils.
Number Five is alive!
Because DeBeers wants you to. Their high pressure ad campaigns that they started in the early twentieth century created the idea of the diamond as the most valuable precious gem (before that, rubies and emeralds were generally regarded as more valuable). They also created the idea of the diamond engagement ring and managed to make it pretty much mandatory.