The thing that frustrates me the most about that damn thing is how inconsistent it is. I have a///big/// vocabulary, in a couple languages, and lots of the words I want to use just aren't in that damn thing. Now, it's chock full of bogus not-words, of course. Foreign words in common use in English are often not there, but things like "un" count as words.
I wouldn't have let him get away with misspelling "adze". But that's just me. : )
For the record, I call "Bullshit!" on the official Scrabble dictionary. It's full of prefixes and onomatopoeias. You want to play Scrabble with me? Bring your OED.
Well, since the airlines operate at the discretion of the FAA, and have Federal employees providing 'security', I do not believe they should have the mandate to abridge my Constitutional liberties.
If they were a fully private entity, not relying on my tax dollars, then they could ask me to paint my nose green and walk on the airplane backwards. But, since they are to all intents and purposes controlled by the federal government, they should be bound to respect my rights.
Dubya's "plan" is about as efficient as waiting for warp engines to be developed before going to Mars.
There are better faster cheaper safer solutions than building Battlestar Galactica in orbit. Unfortunately, defense contractors don't get gigabucks for fielding practical solutions...they get gigabucks for fielding solutions that have subcontractors in every single congresscritter's district.
Tacking into the wind requires a keel, and there's no corollary with a solar sail. You can use the sail to slow down, though, decreasing your orbital energy and bringing you towards the sun.
And there's a big difference between silent and "quiter [sic] than a well constructed desktop".
I often notice the warm air on my fingers before I actually hear the fan on my Powerbook. The hard drive ticks very, very quietly when it's accessing. It's certainly a lot quieter than any (modern) desktop I've used.
I still think the developer will make more bucks by taking good care of their paying customers, and ignoring the others.
You disagree, and that's fine. So does this particular publisher. It certainly doesn't make me want to rush right over and see what great games they're making...
Since I wouldn't pay the $99/month, I wouldn't have posted the comment.
What, you think that I only stick to my principles when they're convenient? If they were, they wouldn't be very good principles, now would they?
I'd be willing to pay the same amount as I'd pay for a paper magazine for/. $15/yr would be very reasonable. I won't, however, be nickel and dimed with charges per page view.
So what have they been doing all this time to fund their investigations? Having bake sales?
The only reason to increase the budget for wiretaps is to increase the number of wiretaps. You can't make me believe that it's more expensive to tap phones on modern systems than it used to be when you had to physically move wires around. I think we as citizens are entitled to take a very critical view of that notion.
You might have a case if this were The Last Predicta. But it's not. This person obviously paid market value for one instance of this mass-produced object, and then did what he wanted to do with it.
I think it's faintly ridiculous to compare a TV to the Mona Lisa.
The "defacer" obviously had the option to use a replica...it'd probably have cost him a lot less. But he didn't want to, and he's totally within his rights.
Who are you to tell somebody else what they should or should not do with their own Predicta? They have a different set of motivations and desires than you do, and they're free to do as they will.
Of course, you are free to object, but you look pretty silly when you do it.
Lots of big names in the cast, but the movie was utterly horrible. Boring dialog delivered by loathsome characters in situations that I simply couldn't be made to care about.
And then it started raining frogs. I want my two hours back.
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Yeah, there you go. Scrabble dictionary is LYING.
///big/// vocabulary, in a couple languages, and lots of the words I want to use just aren't in that damn thing. Now, it's chock full of bogus not-words, of course. Foreign words in common use in English are often not there, but things like "un" count as words.
: )
The thing that frustrates me the most about that damn thing is how inconsistent it is. I have a
OED or nothin'.
I wouldn't have let him get away with misspelling "adze". But that's just me. : )
For the record, I call "Bullshit!" on the official Scrabble dictionary. It's full of prefixes and onomatopoeias. You want to play Scrabble with me? Bring your OED.
It's...a mobile telephone. With a keyboard. Just like a friend of mine has had for about forever.
I'm wetting my pants, I'm so excited.
Scuppered is perfectly acceptable in this context. As in "This apple be rotten to the core, I shall scupper it! Avast ye!"
Scuppers are ventilation systems for the bilge. The bilge is where all kinds of ick grows. It's also a trash bin.
Well, since the airlines operate at the discretion of the FAA, and have Federal employees providing 'security', I do not believe they should have the mandate to abridge my Constitutional liberties.
If they were a fully private entity, not relying on my tax dollars, then they could ask me to paint my nose green and walk on the airplane backwards. But, since they are to all intents and purposes controlled by the federal government, they should be bound to respect my rights.
What a quaint notion.
Without an ID, though, how do you know that the name on the ticket matches the traveller?
Don't get me wrong, I'm very opposed to ID'ing people for travelling, but tickets certainly aren't sufficient for their nefarious tasks...
Dubya's "plan" is about as efficient as waiting for warp engines to be developed before going to Mars.
There are better faster cheaper safer solutions than building Battlestar Galactica in orbit. Unfortunately, defense contractors don't get gigabucks for fielding practical solutions...they get gigabucks for fielding solutions that have subcontractors in every single congresscritter's district.
Hell of a way to run a railroad.
Tacking into the wind requires a keel, and there's no corollary with a solar sail. You can use the sail to slow down, though, decreasing your orbital energy and bringing you towards the sun.
And there's a big difference between silent and "quiter [sic] than a well constructed desktop".
I often notice the warm air on my fingers before I actually hear the fan on my Powerbook. The hard drive ticks very, very quietly when it's accessing. It's certainly a lot quieter than any (modern) desktop I've used.
Uh, since you're an anonymous coward, I can't know what site to never, ever under any circumstances visit.
Asspipe.
You could print. That's what I'd do.
I still think the developer will make more bucks by taking good care of their paying customers, and ignoring the others.
You disagree, and that's fine. So does this particular publisher. It certainly doesn't make me want to rush right over and see what great games they're making...
Well then, you're right and everybody else is wrong. I musta been on crack when writing the post. : )
So if the signature is so easy to ignore, what makes you think that anybody who bothers to share it won't strip it off and offere a naked archive?
Any copyright protection effective enough to prevent much copying is too onerous to legitimate customers. I've yet to see an exception to that axiom.
Sure, Microsoft and TransGaming are free to do whatever they want with their software. But just because they can, doesn't mean it's smart to do...
So basically what you're saying is, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!"
Uh huh.
Since I wouldn't pay the $99/month, I wouldn't have posted the comment.
/. $15/yr would be very reasonable. I won't, however, be nickel and dimed with charges per page view.
What, you think that I only stick to my principles when they're convenient? If they were, they wouldn't be very good principles, now would they?
I'd be willing to pay the same amount as I'd pay for a paper magazine for
Anybody who wants to put their content behind a password-protected, pay-or-you-don't-go-through barrier is more than welcome to do so.
Anybody who doesn't is liable to have me filter what is displayed on my screen.
"stealing" indeed....might as well say I'm "stealing" when I watch TV through a store window. Utter horse shit.
So what have they been doing all this time to fund their investigations? Having bake sales?
The only reason to increase the budget for wiretaps is to increase the number of wiretaps. You can't make me believe that it's more expensive to tap phones on modern systems than it used to be when you had to physically move wires around. I think we as citizens are entitled to take a very critical view of that notion.
You might have a case if this were The Last Predicta. But it's not. This person obviously paid market value for one instance of this mass-produced object, and then did what he wanted to do with it.
I think it's faintly ridiculous to compare a TV to the Mona Lisa.
The "defacer" obviously had the option to use a replica...it'd probably have cost him a lot less. But he didn't want to, and he's totally within his rights.
If you don't want somebody to do something to something, don't sell it to them.
Who are you to tell somebody else what they should or should not do with their own Predicta? They have a different set of motivations and desires than you do, and they're free to do as they will.
Of course, you are free to object, but you look pretty silly when you do it.
1) That's not what I was talking about
2) I'll show you my coursework if you'll show me yours, you dingleberry-chowing goat licker.
You're absolutely right, as long as you don't have four bolts attaching the hard drive to the enclosure.
There are vibration isolating mounting systems for hard drives, sure...but you have to have something more than just an aluminum box.
If the hard drive is bolted to the box, it's going to vibrate at 7200 rpm.
Sound doesn't travel well through a solid block of metal...right. Let's do my experiment. You'll like it. I promise.
Ass.
Hands down: Magnolia.
Lots of big names in the cast, but the movie was utterly horrible. Boring dialog delivered by loathsome characters in situations that I simply couldn't be made to care about.
And then it started raining frogs. I want my two hours back.