His Star Trek reviews don't have any of this and I think they're the better for it.
You mean, except for his having killed his wife by driving his Cadillac into a tree, and the subsequent "suicide" of his girlfriend which he covers up by having a prostitute write a suicide note before he kills her, too?
That deus ex machina in the ST universe has been implemented right through the modern series. I call it the "plotyon device" - whatever they need to do in the last 5 minutes to resolve the issue.
To be fair, sci-fi is about a lot more than hard science. I share your love for the hard stuff, however, some of the best sci-fi to be written, televised, or shown on the silver screen has little to none of it to claim.
The Next Generation had a lot of what I'd consider excellent sci-fi over the years, which really is all about asking "What if?" Their habit of activating the "plotyon device" to get out of a jam wasn't part of it.
Another example of a game using real names is iRacing, though real names are used throughout the game, instead of just on the forums. Again, the idea is to discourage anti-social behavior (intentional wrecking, profanity, etc), and this is part of their aggressive policing against griefers. In this case, such a prevention is especially necessary for a racing game of this type. I don't frequent the Blizzard forums, so I'm not sure if there are enough douchebags there to justify such measures.
It's true that iRacing uses real names (I play both iRacing and WoW), but one significant difference here is that you know that going in to iRacing - you never have had a pseudonym for it. For Starcraft 2, the same is true - the game isn't out yet, and you're being made aware that the official forums will not be anonymous. But World of Warcraft is a different story; if they do in fact apply these changes to the official forums, it's changing how they've worked for the past five years.
I think the reactions here are overblown, however. RealID is 100% opt-in in the game itself, where it replaces an avatar's name on your friends list with their real name. You have to accept an invitation from someone to exchange RealID information.
As for the forums, I think posting under your real name might just have the effect they're after - people being a little more thoughtful about the words they're using to discuss what happens in a game. It certainly works for iRacing.
Real ID is required to use the friends list in game.
No, RealID is required to use RealID names in the in-game friends list. You can also have the original style of friends on your list, which refer to people only by their avatar's name.
Give Camino a try, if you haven't. It's Firefox under the hood, and looks and behaves far more like a native OSX application. (I agree on the half-assed, by the way).
YYYY/MM/DD makes a lot of sense to use, especially if you work with computers etc., because if you use that construct as part of a filename, it sorts correctly.
Given mortality rates being the highest for drivers 16-24, what would be a better alternative?
Actual driver training that might reduce the accident rate rather than just attempts to apportion blame better ?
Indeed! I'm one of several driving instructors in my local Audi Club who run several teen driving clinics per year. It's astounding how much they'll learn in a single day of instruction. I certainly feel better about their ability to handle a car when they leave, and (I think) so do they.
We teach basic car control, and give them the opportunity to actually lose control in a safe environment, so they know what it's like, know what their car is capable of (and isn't capable of) and mostly, just instill some confidence in them, so that when something happens on the road, they'll already have been there at least once, and hopefully won't panic.
"Driver education" as taught here in the US doesn't teach them anything about driving a car. It teaches them to obey the law (and not too effectively). If they had a solid sense of the amount of energy involved in even the most basic maneuvers, they'd probably look at speeding etc. in a whole new light. And I hope we help, at least a little, with that.
I'd love to require a course like ours for all new drivers before they get a license, and perhaps an occasional refresher for all drivers, period (even us instructors!)
Besides, since diesels hardly sell in the US, there hasn't been a lot of point in developing the technology.
The reason Diesel sales in the US are low is because the EPA puts restrictions on how many passenger cars can be sold with Diesel engines. It has little to do with customer demand.
TAnd whatever happened to 404 pages? ISPs (webhosts) started hijacking them long ago and the world didn't stop.
That's because those custom 404 pages still give the proper 404 HTTP response - page does not exist. They're just wrapped in custom HTML that jazzes up the page that's displayed by your browser.
You know, I have to say that I agree with you fully. I'm a Mac user since OSX was released, and the exact same thing is true for me. It's the apps, stupid! =)
Too many people don't understand that the "war" (if there is one) isn't about the operating system; I really couldn't care less about Windows vs. OSX vs. Linux vs. whatever. But if I can't run the applications I need to run, there's nothing to compel me to move to (or even experiment with) another OS.
Everyone likes to trot out the "valid alternatives" to applications like Photoshop, but the truth of it is that people like us have more invested than just the price of the software. We have a workflow that we've developed over time that would be expensive to change, and I don't mean in dollars.
Exactly so. In fact, on most old mechanical typewriters, the shift lock key was, in fact, a mechanical switch that did the job of holding the shift key down for you. It needed to be next to (above) the shift key so it could engage the catch that held it down.
If you're currently eligible to upgrade your hardware with AT&T, you get the $99/$199/$299 prices. All new hardware requires a new contract with AT&T, and if you're not currently eligible, you pay full price. This isn't unique to the iPhone.
In Minnesota, you may request a blood test in place of the field breathalyzer, which (according to my attorney) you SHOULD do.
You should also decline (again, according to my attorney - consult your own even if you live in MN) to take any of the other "field sobriety tests" such as walking toe-to-heel, lifting one foot and counting, etc. they simply allow the officers to collect more evidence against you. You are not required to submit to these tests.
Any delay in taking the blood test during transport to the medical facility etc. is not relevant, as the rate of metabolism of alcohol in the body is well understood, and your B.A.C. at the time of the stop can be determined.
Like, for example, OS/400 and its successor, i5/OS. There are plenty of operating environments available that were designed from the outset with security as THE #1 priority. Some of which, I'm confident, we've not even heard of.
If the MS spokesperson there had confined his remarks to "mainstream desktop operating systems", he might have actually been close to the mark. I'm not a security expert, though, so I can't really say one way or another.
I like your thought process, but does it fit her, too? If she's a geek and you know she'll appreciate the same values of iridium as you do, I say go for it. However, if she's not, you may want to look at what she might want as a symbol, since the ring for her is a reminder of you. If you can show you were thinking of her when you designed it, so much the better.
For my wife, a self-described "dirty hippy", I got a lovely white gold ring (reclaimed gold) with a single sapphire of certified ethical origin. It's untreated, so the color is a little dull, but that's how it came out of the ground. The presentation box was handmade sustainable wood.
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There's a similar extension for Safari, which does a number of other useful things: Ultimate Status Bar.
His Star Trek reviews don't have any of this and I think they're the better for it.
You mean, except for his having killed his wife by driving his Cadillac into a tree, and the subsequent "suicide" of his girlfriend which he covers up by having a prostitute write a suicide note before he kills her, too?
That deus ex machina in the ST universe has been implemented right through the modern series. I call it the "plotyon device" - whatever they need to do in the last 5 minutes to resolve the issue.
To be fair, sci-fi is about a lot more than hard science. I share your love for the hard stuff, however, some of the best sci-fi to be written, televised, or shown on the silver screen has little to none of it to claim.
The Next Generation had a lot of what I'd consider excellent sci-fi over the years, which really is all about asking "What if?" Their habit of activating the "plotyon device" to get out of a jam wasn't part of it.
Another example of a game using real names is iRacing, though real names are used throughout the game, instead of just on the forums. Again, the idea is to discourage anti-social behavior (intentional wrecking, profanity, etc), and this is part of their aggressive policing against griefers. In this case, such a prevention is especially necessary for a racing game of this type. I don't frequent the Blizzard forums, so I'm not sure if there are enough douchebags there to justify such measures.
It's true that iRacing uses real names (I play both iRacing and WoW), but one significant difference here is that you know that going in to iRacing - you never have had a pseudonym for it. For Starcraft 2, the same is true - the game isn't out yet, and you're being made aware that the official forums will not be anonymous. But World of Warcraft is a different story; if they do in fact apply these changes to the official forums, it's changing how they've worked for the past five years.
I think the reactions here are overblown, however. RealID is 100% opt-in in the game itself, where it replaces an avatar's name on your friends list with their real name. You have to accept an invitation from someone to exchange RealID information.
As for the forums, I think posting under your real name might just have the effect they're after - people being a little more thoughtful about the words they're using to discuss what happens in a game. It certainly works for iRacing.
Real ID is required to use the friends list in game.
No, RealID is required to use RealID names in the in-game friends list. You can also have the original style of friends on your list, which refer to people only by their avatar's name.
You can create the filesystem from OS X, too:
newfs_udf -v /dev/diskX
I'd suggest the man page for newfs_udf for the many options.
Now everyone can try to figure out what the hell it's for.
Give Camino a try, if you haven't. It's Firefox under the hood, and looks and behaves far more like a native OSX application. (I agree on the half-assed, by the way).
Absolutely true, and the Supreme Court agrees. They've ruled more than once that anonymity is a required condition of freedom of speech.
See McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission .
Except there's no such thing as a singular Ford. There's a Ford Mustang, there isn't a Ford.
Lego is a brand, just like Ford is. People refer to many Mustangs or F150's or whatever as "Fords" all the time, so the same would be true of Lego.
YYYY/MM/DD makes a lot of sense to use, especially if you work with computers etc., because if you use that construct as part of a filename, it sorts correctly.
Given mortality rates being the highest for drivers 16-24, what would be a better alternative?
Actual driver training that might reduce the accident rate rather than just attempts to apportion blame better ?
Indeed! I'm one of several driving instructors in my local Audi Club who run several teen driving clinics per year. It's astounding how much they'll learn in a single day of instruction. I certainly feel better about their ability to handle a car when they leave, and (I think) so do they.
We teach basic car control, and give them the opportunity to actually lose control in a safe environment, so they know what it's like, know what their car is capable of (and isn't capable of) and mostly, just instill some confidence in them, so that when something happens on the road, they'll already have been there at least once, and hopefully won't panic.
"Driver education" as taught here in the US doesn't teach them anything about driving a car. It teaches them to obey the law (and not too effectively). If they had a solid sense of the amount of energy involved in even the most basic maneuvers, they'd probably look at speeding etc. in a whole new light. And I hope we help, at least a little, with that.
I'd love to require a course like ours for all new drivers before they get a license, and perhaps an occasional refresher for all drivers, period (even us instructors!)
There's a Chrome build in the dev branch for OS X. You can get it here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac
Besides, since diesels hardly sell in the US, there hasn't been a lot of point in developing the technology.
The reason Diesel sales in the US are low is because the EPA puts restrictions on how many passenger cars can be sold with Diesel engines. It has little to do with customer demand.
TAnd whatever happened to 404 pages? ISPs (webhosts) started hijacking them long ago and the world didn't stop.
That's because those custom 404 pages still give the proper 404 HTTP response - page does not exist. They're just wrapped in custom HTML that jazzes up the page that's displayed by your browser.
You know, I have to say that I agree with you fully. I'm a Mac user since OSX was released, and the exact same thing is true for me. It's the apps, stupid! =)
Too many people don't understand that the "war" (if there is one) isn't about the operating system; I really couldn't care less about Windows vs. OSX vs. Linux vs. whatever. But if I can't run the applications I need to run, there's nothing to compel me to move to (or even experiment with) another OS.
Everyone likes to trot out the "valid alternatives" to applications like Photoshop, but the truth of it is that people like us have more invested than just the price of the software. We have a workflow that we've developed over time that would be expensive to change, and I don't mean in dollars.
You can "correct" the behavior of Home and End on a Mac by placing the following in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict :
{ /* home */ /* end */ /* shift + home */ /* shift + end */
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:";
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
}
Exactly so. In fact, on most old mechanical typewriters, the shift lock key was, in fact, a mechanical switch that did the job of holding the shift key down for you. It needed to be next to (above) the shift key so it could engage the catch that held it down.
If you're currently eligible to upgrade your hardware with AT&T, you get the $99/$199/$299 prices. All new hardware requires a new contract with AT&T, and if you're not currently eligible, you pay full price. This isn't unique to the iPhone.
In Minnesota, you may request a blood test in place of the field breathalyzer, which (according to my attorney) you SHOULD do.
You should also decline (again, according to my attorney - consult your own even if you live in MN) to take any of the other "field sobriety tests" such as walking toe-to-heel, lifting one foot and counting, etc. they simply allow the officers to collect more evidence against you. You are not required to submit to these tests.
Any delay in taking the blood test during transport to the medical facility etc. is not relevant, as the rate of metabolism of alcohol in the body is well understood, and your B.A.C. at the time of the stop can be determined.
If the MS spokesperson there had confined his remarks to "mainstream desktop operating systems", he might have actually been close to the mark. I'm not a security expert, though, so I can't really say one way or another.
The only reason I have iTunes installed is because I couldn't find a Quicktime download that didn't come with it.
Then you didn't look very hard. Go to the QuickTime download page and select option 2: QuickTime 7.6 for Windows XP or Vista.
I understand not wanting to install software for one or another reason, but it *is* possible (and relatively easy) to get QT without iTunes.
If you do install QT without iTunes, it doesn't install Bonjour.
For my wife, a self-described "dirty hippy", I got a lovely white gold ring (reclaimed gold) with a single sapphire of certified ethical origin. It's untreated, so the color is a little dull, but that's how it came out of the ground. The presentation box was handmade sustainable wood.
Match the ring to her!
It's this poor attitude that is not only growing but becoming a staple of online communities with regards to stuff that can be transmitted.
Indeed. Whatever happened to the idea that if you couldn't afford luxuries (like, for example, video games, movies, or CDs) you went without?