Don't forget the severe reduction in the life of the drive as a result of all the writes being performed on it. And since it's for Windows, it would benefit from antivirus software. Got multiple computer viruses that just can't be gotten rid of, no matter how many times your AV software moves files and kills processes? No problem! Just kill the flash drive with all of the write operations that are performed as a result of the file moving!
Did Victorian English ever use blunt language in writing?
Of course they did. And you can bet that Elizabethan-era English certainly had its own share of insulting terms, though admittedly the term "expletives" wouldn't nearly cover all of the insults (they did better than the "Yo Mama!" joke.) http://www.renfaire.com/Language/insults.html is one site that gives a rather nice explanation about the sorts of terms used and occasionally why they might not be used any longer.
Ideally, yes. However, what if it's like many games that detect you're out of bounds and force you back in at the closest point possible? In the simplest case, it would just keep resetting Y to 0 while X and Z would remain constant as long as you're not moving. I'd look at the source code, but I don't care about it. I love the ability to be able to see how it works, but sometimes not knowing is more fun.:-)
Idealistic ideology indeed. However, the meaning is true nonetheless. People's freedoms are being taken away despite the fact that they are meant to be guaranteed. I don't know about Aaron, but I must say that I'm inclined to agree with the motives behind Anonymous' movement, even if I disagree with the methods and tactics they employ. We are not Borg, and we will not be assimilated. Ultimately, I think Anonymous is acting as the voice of the People because the People have lost their voice and is trying to help them find it once more. It's a way to say, "Wake the heck up, everybody! You're no longer living in 'The Land of the Free!'"
Look at the options available for the average group of citizens to effect change. The White House has petitions that seem to be going nowhere, so what's the point of doing it in the first place? Members of the U.S. Congress and even the President of the United States are written countless letters, few of which actually cross their eyes in comparison, so that's not a good idea either. The only option left is a more direct course of action. This falls into two categories: violent action and nonviolent action. Nonviolence is being exercised here. Nobody is dying, and nobody is getting wounded in the slightest. I wonder when the violence will start?
By the way, freedom happens in nature, too. When animals are trapped, they'll do anything to get away. Around here, there's a well-known concept regarding the fact that a deer will gnaw off part of its own leg to get out of a trap. It values its life more than its leg, and the pain is negligible if it means they can survive. The Saw films thrived on that same concept: what will you do in order to survive (or will you give up and die)? While I doubt the films contained political subtext intentionally, the fact is that they can be interpreted in that way.
Overall, I think the idea driving Anonymous is good, and there has been very little damage as a direct result of their campaign. Morally speaking, what is being done is wrong, and two wrongs don't make a right. However, sometimes a bit of a wrong is required to make things right, I guess.
Indeed. ^H is a shortened form of Ctrl-H (C-H for those Emacs lovers). Since H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, it corresponds to ASCII character code 0x08: the backspace (BS) control code. A horizontal tab was code 0x09, so when you press the tab key or use the "\t" escape in strings in a programming language, you're actually sending that control code. Of course, that's mostly ancient history now for most. Keyboard manufacturers, Assembly programmers and hardware driver creators come to mind as the few who might actually need to know such information...
a) You're saying that a (fading but still present) cultural expectation that the man pays for the first date causes a 40% salary increase?
b) Most men are not CFOs.
a) I doubt that's what the AC meant. It's more like the cultural expectation, which may only be present in a given smaller area or subculture rather than an entire large region, is what makes a guy spend more. He feels like he needs to. That's not the fault of men or women of today. It's just a lingering relic of an expectation. I, too, feel I should. After all, that's how a lady ought to be treated. That's what all of the old-school films and such seem to indicate anyway. In truth, I think it's down to the need to fuck myself. Men feel that desire to reproduce, which leads to wanting to make a female happy so that she'll sleep with him. It's a narrow-minded and extremely simplified view since human behavior is inherently complex, especially when medication and/or other drugs are added to the mix, but it's true nonetheless.
b) I think that was the point. Most men are indeed not CFOs, which is why maternity leave was mentioned. I'm not sure if that's an insult or not, though.
The poster seems to have a bit of a bitter attitude when it comes to things like this that differentiate results based on the sex of a person. It's a logical division, but I wish it wasn't used. I think this is one reason why women aren't "equal" yet, though obviously the idea of equality is relative.
Actually, I think women do work much harder, but not at their profession as the statement would have you believe. Because of the "male dominated" area, women are more driven, I think--driven to succeed as well as driven to be more professional than their male peers. Women often mop the floor with men because guys can't keep their hormones in check usually. Sexy scientist babe? -stare- -stare- -STARE- (are you burning a hole through that top of hers yet?) We can't help how we are as guys. In a way, women are superior in this regard. Men are scared of scandal, and women can manipulate that to their advantage because they're often more cunning. I only say that because guys can't control their hormones, leading to less rational and logical thought processes. What it comes down to is the inherent male need to fuck, a natural act meant for reproduction that was vulgarized by women who didn't want to just be baby-makers through rape. This need is what causes prison rapes in male prisons. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in female prisons, but you don't hear about it nearly as much because it just doesn't happen as often.
I suppose I expect too much from my government in openly allowing hacking on one day without repercussions so long as it harms nobody. After all, it only has access to my national identity and tax records.
Seriously? I can understand how that might be one application of a flexible battery, but you'd also need the handset itself to be flexible, meaning all of the plastic covering, the SoC and any buttons, assuming it had any like volume adjustment buttons and a power button, would need to be flexible too (not just the battery).
Get in a car on a Grand Theft Auto game and take one of those adrenaline pills.
“Drivin' and trippin' at the same time. Fuck yeah! P.S. Sorry to the drivers whose cars I hit and to the pedestrians I ran down.:-P”
Then a Facebook friend shares it with the cops and come to my place. “What? I was playing Grand Theft Auto!”
While I'm glad this kid got caught, the truth is that people shouldn't take things on the Internet so seriously. I blame social sites such as Facebook and MySpace for encouraging the sharing of such personal truths. My post would be a joke, but apparently it could get me convicted of a crime I never committed in reality.
With a financial risk like this, I'm sure there is some caution being exerted.
Sure, soda may be cheap to produce, but add packaging and distribution costs, which include the labor costs. Then you figure that with all of the expensive equipment and the movies themselves, a theater needs to make a decent profit to be able to handle everything, which is one reason why you have such overpriced snacks.
You may not even buy anything from the snack bar (a.k.a. "concession stand" here in the US, where you concede and buy things despite the fact that you can get the same items at less than 1/4 of the cost outside the theater). A theater still needs to make money, and tickets actually provide very little profit, if any at all. That's where all of the snacks come in. You can mark up the cost of a bag of popcorn or a paper cup* of fountain soda to help offset the costs, which allows for buying new equipment as well as maintaining current equipment.
* "Cup" as used here is not 8 fluid ounces (8 fl. oz.) It is simply a vessel for a liquid as in "tea cup". One might say "glass", but to say that you have a paper or plastic glass is rather silly since a glass is made of glass, not paper glass or plastic glass, both of which are not materials that exist with which to make a cup.
Discount on the food? You're kidding me, right? There's absolutely no reason why that should be a part of the deal. You subscribe, paying each month to renew your subscription, to see any movie at any time you want (when the theater is open). Anything else like food, candy, etc. is gonna cost you more. Of course, certain things are free, such as 3D glasses to watch 3D films and refills on certain sizes of popcorn and specific sizes and kinds of beverage-type items (not fountain sodas).
Mass transit is great unless you have somewhere you need to be, and you live an hour from the city. This is the problem with America. Too much land. Not enough people filling it. Of course if we had that many people, this country would likely have been finished financially decades ago.
I see your problem with metrication when it comes to the amount of land differently. 640 sq. mi. is 1657 km2, so round it down to 1600 km2, which is a nice 40 km by 40 km SQUARE plot. Really. It's not that hard.
You mentioned 36 square mile sections. Why isn't it 40? That would make more sense to me. You can't divide those 640 sq. mi. "squares" by 36 evenly, so it makes little sense. Use 40 or even 32! Converting 40 sq. mi. to metric yields approximately 100 km2 (103.6 actually), so that to me would be ideal. Or if 32 was used, you might use 80 km2 instead of the approximate 82.88 it is. And as for the individual 40 acre plots (~0.162 km2), cut it down to 0.15 km2 to make it approximately 37 acres.
Now apply that model to business. You could sell less land at the same cost. In other words, there is money to be made in the confusion. Let's be honest here. For that very reason it would temporarily benefit those who deal with land. Landscaping, selling actual pieces of land by the acre such as for a farm, etc. I'm no swindler, but I gotta say that from a business standpoint, bring on the metrication in your area!
Well, the local pubs always have specials. Other than that, nothing traditional happens in my area except maybe people watching the Times Square Ball drop in New York City. Of course, that signals New Year's Day in NYC. It's 5 in the morning in London and 11 P.M. (2300 hours) where I reside. I just don't understand how it's such a big celebration if it means that it's New Year's Day happens at midnight in only one timezone. Yet another reason why we should have a world clock instead of time zones and Daylight Saving Time/Summer Time.
Office v. X on OS X 10.0 at school rocked my socks all around. I honestly would have enjoyed staying at school and typing papers there instead of going home and using Office 2000 on Windows! At least it wasn't Office XP, though!
Simply put, when it comes to a UI, Apple knew their stuff when it came to OS X. Nothing blends better than UI elements from the official framework of the OS itself!:-P
(Some "Task Panes" were harmed in the writing of this post. The Ribbons managed to flee after realizing they were next.)
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Don't forget the severe reduction in the life of the drive as a result of all the writes being performed on it. And since it's for Windows, it would benefit from antivirus software. Got multiple computer viruses that just can't be gotten rid of, no matter how many times your AV software moves files and kills processes? No problem! Just kill the flash drive with all of the write operations that are performed as a result of the file moving!
Yes. The place you need to get to is called "Sunny Town". Once there... Well, just play the game and find out.
I was just about to mention this. :-)
Tau > Pi
Why the hell would anybody want a cup holder connected to their phone with hot coffee? I don't mean to sound elitist, but the idea is terrible!
Allemande est trop difficile. Etudiez le français. (Je comprends un peu du français, mais je ne peux pas le parler bien.)
Did Victorian English ever use blunt language in writing?
Of course they did. And you can bet that Elizabethan-era English certainly had its own share of insulting terms, though admittedly the term "expletives" wouldn't nearly cover all of the insults (they did better than the "Yo Mama!" joke.) http://www.renfaire.com/Language/insults.html is one site that gives a rather nice explanation about the sorts of terms used and occasionally why they might not be used any longer.
I'm betting you would find it steamy when you went outside. People went outside all the time back then, unlike now.
What has the internet done to us?!
Ideally, yes. However, what if it's like many games that detect you're out of bounds and force you back in at the closest point possible? In the simplest case, it would just keep resetting Y to 0 while X and Z would remain constant as long as you're not moving. I'd look at the source code, but I don't care about it. I love the ability to be able to see how it works, but sometimes not knowing is more fun. :-)
Idealistic ideology indeed. However, the meaning is true nonetheless. People's freedoms are being taken away despite the fact that they are meant to be guaranteed. I don't know about Aaron, but I must say that I'm inclined to agree with the motives behind Anonymous' movement, even if I disagree with the methods and tactics they employ. We are not Borg, and we will not be assimilated. Ultimately, I think Anonymous is acting as the voice of the People because the People have lost their voice and is trying to help them find it once more. It's a way to say, "Wake the heck up, everybody! You're no longer living in 'The Land of the Free!'"
Look at the options available for the average group of citizens to effect change. The White House has petitions that seem to be going nowhere, so what's the point of doing it in the first place? Members of the U.S. Congress and even the President of the United States are written countless letters, few of which actually cross their eyes in comparison, so that's not a good idea either. The only option left is a more direct course of action. This falls into two categories: violent action and nonviolent action. Nonviolence is being exercised here. Nobody is dying, and nobody is getting wounded in the slightest. I wonder when the violence will start?
By the way, freedom happens in nature, too. When animals are trapped, they'll do anything to get away. Around here, there's a well-known concept regarding the fact that a deer will gnaw off part of its own leg to get out of a trap. It values its life more than its leg, and the pain is negligible if it means they can survive. The Saw films thrived on that same concept: what will you do in order to survive (or will you give up and die)? While I doubt the films contained political subtext intentionally, the fact is that they can be interpreted in that way.
Overall, I think the idea driving Anonymous is good, and there has been very little damage as a direct result of their campaign. Morally speaking, what is being done is wrong, and two wrongs don't make a right. However, sometimes a bit of a wrong is required to make things right, I guess.
Indeed. ^H is a shortened form of Ctrl-H (C-H for those Emacs lovers). Since H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, it corresponds to ASCII character code 0x08: the backspace (BS) control code. A horizontal tab was code 0x09, so when you press the tab key or use the "\t" escape in strings in a programming language, you're actually sending that control code. Of course, that's mostly ancient history now for most. Keyboard manufacturers, Assembly programmers and hardware driver creators come to mind as the few who might actually need to know such information...
Unicode++;
a) You're saying that a (fading but still present) cultural expectation that the man pays for the first date causes a 40% salary increase?
b) Most men are not CFOs.
a) I doubt that's what the AC meant. It's more like the cultural expectation, which may only be present in a given smaller area or subculture rather than an entire large region, is what makes a guy spend more. He feels like he needs to. That's not the fault of men or women of today. It's just a lingering relic of an expectation. I, too, feel I should. After all, that's how a lady ought to be treated. That's what all of the old-school films and such seem to indicate anyway. In truth, I think it's down to the need to fuck myself. Men feel that desire to reproduce, which leads to wanting to make a female happy so that she'll sleep with him. It's a narrow-minded and extremely simplified view since human behavior is inherently complex, especially when medication and/or other drugs are added to the mix, but it's true nonetheless.
b) I think that was the point. Most men are indeed not CFOs, which is why maternity leave was mentioned. I'm not sure if that's an insult or not, though.
The poster seems to have a bit of a bitter attitude when it comes to things like this that differentiate results based on the sex of a person. It's a logical division, but I wish it wasn't used. I think this is one reason why women aren't "equal" yet, though obviously the idea of equality is relative.
Actually, I think women do work much harder, but not at their profession as the statement would have you believe. Because of the "male dominated" area, women are more driven, I think--driven to succeed as well as driven to be more professional than their male peers. Women often mop the floor with men because guys can't keep their hormones in check usually. Sexy scientist babe? -stare- -stare- -STARE- (are you burning a hole through that top of hers yet?) We can't help how we are as guys. In a way, women are superior in this regard. Men are scared of scandal, and women can manipulate that to their advantage because they're often more cunning. I only say that because guys can't control their hormones, leading to less rational and logical thought processes. What it comes down to is the inherent male need to fuck, a natural act meant for reproduction that was vulgarized by women who didn't want to just be baby-makers through rape. This need is what causes prison rapes in male prisons. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in female prisons, but you don't hear about it nearly as much because it just doesn't happen as often.
I suppose I expect too much from my government in openly allowing hacking on one day without repercussions so long as it harms nobody. After all, it only has access to my national identity and tax records.
Seriously? I can understand how that might be one application of a flexible battery, but you'd also need the handset itself to be flexible, meaning all of the plastic covering, the SoC and any buttons, assuming it had any like volume adjustment buttons and a power button, would need to be flexible too (not just the battery).
Whatever you say, Chuck. I bet your tears cure cancer, too.
Highlight of the evening: S'mores made with the help of Bunsen burners!
Be there! (Or I get your share of marshmallows and chocolate!)
Get in a car on a Grand Theft Auto game and take one of those adrenaline pills.
“Drivin' and trippin' at the same time. Fuck yeah! P.S. Sorry to the drivers whose cars I hit and to the pedestrians I ran down. :-P”
Then a Facebook friend shares it with the cops and come to my place. “What? I was playing Grand Theft Auto!”
While I'm glad this kid got caught, the truth is that people shouldn't take things on the Internet so seriously. I blame social sites such as Facebook and MySpace for encouraging the sharing of such personal truths. My post would be a joke, but apparently it could get me convicted of a crime I never committed in reality.
That's what FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc. are all for. They're around to make a killer amount of money after USPS goes under.
With a financial risk like this, I'm sure there is some caution being exerted.
Sure, soda may be cheap to produce, but add packaging and distribution costs, which include the labor costs. Then you figure that with all of the expensive equipment and the movies themselves, a theater needs to make a decent profit to be able to handle everything, which is one reason why you have such overpriced snacks.
You may not even buy anything from the snack bar (a.k.a. "concession stand" here in the US, where you concede and buy things despite the fact that you can get the same items at less than 1/4 of the cost outside the theater). A theater still needs to make money, and tickets actually provide very little profit, if any at all. That's where all of the snacks come in. You can mark up the cost of a bag of popcorn or a paper cup* of fountain soda to help offset the costs, which allows for buying new equipment as well as maintaining current equipment.
* "Cup" as used here is not 8 fluid ounces (8 fl. oz.) It is simply a vessel for a liquid as in "tea cup". One might say "glass", but to say that you have a paper or plastic glass is rather silly since a glass is made of glass, not paper glass or plastic glass, both of which are not materials that exist with which to make a cup.
Discount on the food? You're kidding me, right? There's absolutely no reason why that should be a part of the deal. You subscribe, paying each month to renew your subscription, to see any movie at any time you want (when the theater is open). Anything else like food, candy, etc. is gonna cost you more. Of course, certain things are free, such as 3D glasses to watch 3D films and refills on certain sizes of popcorn and specific sizes and kinds of beverage-type items (not fountain sodas).
Mass transit is great unless you have somewhere you need to be, and you live an hour from the city. This is the problem with America. Too much land. Not enough people filling it. Of course if we had that many people, this country would likely have been finished financially decades ago.
I see your problem with metrication when it comes to the amount of land differently. 640 sq. mi. is 1657 km2, so round it down to 1600 km2, which is a nice 40 km by 40 km SQUARE plot. Really. It's not that hard.
You mentioned 36 square mile sections. Why isn't it 40? That would make more sense to me. You can't divide those 640 sq. mi. "squares" by 36 evenly, so it makes little sense. Use 40 or even 32! Converting 40 sq. mi. to metric yields approximately 100 km2 (103.6 actually), so that to me would be ideal. Or if 32 was used, you might use 80 km2 instead of the approximate 82.88 it is. And as for the individual 40 acre plots (~0.162 km2), cut it down to 0.15 km2 to make it approximately 37 acres.
Now apply that model to business. You could sell less land at the same cost. In other words, there is money to be made in the confusion. Let's be honest here. For that very reason it would temporarily benefit those who deal with land. Landscaping, selling actual pieces of land by the acre such as for a farm, etc. I'm no swindler, but I gotta say that from a business standpoint, bring on the metrication in your area!
Well, the local pubs always have specials. Other than that, nothing traditional happens in my area except maybe people watching the Times Square Ball drop in New York City. Of course, that signals New Year's Day in NYC. It's 5 in the morning in London and 11 P.M. (2300 hours) where I reside. I just don't understand how it's such a big celebration if it means that it's New Year's Day happens at midnight in only one timezone. Yet another reason why we should have a world clock instead of time zones and Daylight Saving Time/Summer Time.
Captain America made them look good.
I wouldn't.
Indeed I did notice.
Office v. X on OS X 10.0 at school rocked my socks all around. I honestly would have enjoyed staying at school and typing papers there instead of going home and using Office 2000 on Windows! At least it wasn't Office XP, though!
Simply put, when it comes to a UI, Apple knew their stuff when it came to OS X. Nothing blends better than UI elements from the official framework of the OS itself! :-P
(Some "Task Panes" were harmed in the writing of this post. The Ribbons managed to flee after realizing they were next.)