Going against the consensus is hard, even if you have been trained or trained yourself to do so.
I was watching TV with my wife's family a few years ago and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" was on. It's not a show I routinely watch but we all had fun shouting answers at the screen. Nice social behavior.
The tricky bit came when a question that fell squarely into one of my big interests came along: "What planet does the moon Titan orbit?"
The answers included Jupiter, Saturn, and a couple of obvious wrong ones. I immediately yelled "Saturn!" while nearly everyone else in the group said "Jupiter!".
Now I KNEW that my answer was right. And some of people with me who said "Jupiter" started to reconsider, because it's common knowledge that I'm a space geek. The lady on the screen hemmed and hawed and finally chose to use one of her "lifelines" to poll the audience for the answer. Something like 80% of the audience said "Jupiter" and all support for my answer among my group fell away.
It was the strangest feeling. I mean, I got up at 2 AM to see the Huygens photographs online. I used to draw pictures of Saturn rising over Titan when I was a kid. I KNEW the answer, and yet with the entire audience and half a family against me I suddenly began to doubt myself. Had I been wrong all these years, suffered some kind of strange delusion? Was Titan a Jovian moon? How could that many people all be wrong?
Of course, a few seconds later the lady correctly answered "Saturn", throwing off the audience opinion and vindicating my chosen response, but it was a very odd sensation for that minute or so before the TV proved me right...
Simple. IBM and whatever's left of AT&T Bell Labs will claim the first earth, the DoD and military will claim the second one (for national security!), leaving 99% of the third to be divied up between DEC, Xerox, and Ford.
We'll all have to use the last 1% of sand grain earth 3, so NAT will be an absolute necessity.
Interestingly, I thought I had all compatibility checks disabled, but it still disabled Tree-style Tabs as "incompatible" when I upgraded from beta 12 to the RC.
Actually, that organ (along with mammary glands and anything else that might let us peek beneath the clothing of the model) are absent from the search list entirely. Since the glands, for example, are visible by partially fading the top layer, I can only assume that some of the "naughty" bits were stripped from the list by Google. Forget biological fidelity, we might OFFEND somebody!
This is a good idea. I once had UPS deliver a small kiosk to me that had been punctured through the LCD, through the oak cabinet, and through the receipt printer with a round object about 2 inches in diameter (measured the 6 entry/exit holes). We blamed spears. UPS said that we shipped it that way.
So far the only footage I've seen is that taken by that single CBS news chopper. Everyone has camera phones these days. How are we not seeing hundreds of videos of this event from hundreds of points of view being posted to Youtube? Can you find any? I couldn't.
Given just how trivial it is to support left handed players in these titles, I'm surprised more don't.
Apparently it's not all that trivial. The Wii version of Twilight Princess has the entire MAP, including dungeon interiors, reversed to accommodate right-handed players for the (usually left-handed but now right-handed) Link. As in, Death Mountain is now in the west.
Even worse, the change to right-handed Link seems to be permanent, as the preview video for Sky Sword shows him to be right-handed there, too.
I can't imagine they would have gone to all that trouble if it had been a simple matter of reversing the Link model, especially since Miyamoto is left-handed.
So when my cable internet bill goes up 25% this year my only recourse is to dump the TV.
Make sure they don't get you there, too. Mediacom (for example) charges you an extra $20/month for broadband service if you don't get TV service from them.
Amusingly, even with that punitive rate tacked on, that plus my DirecTV subscription are still cheaper than Mediacom's TV service.
I know! I know! We can teleport a giant squid-looking thing directly into New York city, and set it up so it broadcasts horrible imagery to the entire human race moments before it dies, thus convincing the world that aliens are invading and uniting us against a perceived common threat!
We might have a few casualties, though. You okay with that?
That's what the "temporarily allow all this site" option is for. Besides, the only times I've seen that happen is on "Hur lookit da funny video" sites, where they are embedding content that's wrapped in a flash object that's hosted on another site while streaming the video source for still a 3rd site into it while simultaneously displaying ads for all 3 AND using a comment script linked to a 4th site.
And even then, 9/10 times I can watch the video just by right-clicking it and choosing "Temporarily allow".
Of course that is a very morbid thing to consider, and is sufficiently horrible, not to mention suicidal, that we'd never actually do it...
Don't underestimate the perversity of our species. There are people right now, on this earth, at this very moment, who would answer the question "Should all human life on this planet be destroyed?" with a resounding "YES!".
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett... if you put a button deep in a cave somewhere and put up a painted sign next to it saying "End of world button, do not touch!" the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
You're lucky you didn't try that today. You'd be expelled and probably have criminal charges brought against you. Kids today aren't allowed to defend themselves thanks to zero-tolerance crap.
This works great up until you decide/have to move and try to sell the house. Or a neighbor complains about something. Or someone gets hurt on your property (while trying to break in, for example). Once any of those things happens, a city inspector will become VERY interested in ANY modifications you've made to the property without a permit. They need the revenue from those fines, after all.
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Going against the consensus is hard, even if you have been trained or trained yourself to do so.
I was watching TV with my wife's family a few years ago and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" was on. It's not a show I routinely watch but we all had fun shouting answers at the screen. Nice social behavior.
The tricky bit came when a question that fell squarely into one of my big interests came along: "What planet does the moon Titan orbit?"
The answers included Jupiter, Saturn, and a couple of obvious wrong ones. I immediately yelled "Saturn!" while nearly everyone else in the group said "Jupiter!".
Now I KNEW that my answer was right. And some of people with me who said "Jupiter" started to reconsider, because it's common knowledge that I'm a space geek. The lady on the screen hemmed and hawed and finally chose to use one of her "lifelines" to poll the audience for the answer. Something like 80% of the audience said "Jupiter" and all support for my answer among my group fell away.
It was the strangest feeling. I mean, I got up at 2 AM to see the Huygens photographs online. I used to draw pictures of Saturn rising over Titan when I was a kid. I KNEW the answer, and yet with the entire audience and half a family against me I suddenly began to doubt myself. Had I been wrong all these years, suffered some kind of strange delusion? Was Titan a Jovian moon? How could that many people all be wrong?
Of course, a few seconds later the lady correctly answered "Saturn", throwing off the audience opinion and vindicating my chosen response, but it was a very odd sensation for that minute or so before the TV proved me right...
Sorry, I thought that went without saying; HP.
Okay, so I somehow misread your original comment. Just pretend it was funny, okay?
Simple. IBM and whatever's left of AT&T Bell Labs will claim the first earth, the DoD and military will claim the second one (for national security!), leaving 99% of the third to be divied up between DEC, Xerox, and Ford.
We'll all have to use the last 1% of sand grain earth 3, so NAT will be an absolute necessity.
Really? And you're certain you're currently connecting via Mediacom?
Do you mind disclosing the state you live in? I think they may only be practicing this in certain areas.
See? You just TURN them!
Interestingly, I thought I had all compatibility checks disabled, but it still disabled Tree-style Tabs as "incompatible" when I upgraded from beta 12 to the RC.
And, like all forms of this type of restriction, it was bypassed. It's already possible to run custom ROMs on the DroidX.
It would take too much effort to care any less.
Actually, that organ (along with mammary glands and anything else that might let us peek beneath the clothing of the model) are absent from the search list entirely. Since the glands, for example, are visible by partially fading the top layer, I can only assume that some of the "naughty" bits were stripped from the list by Google. Forget biological fidelity, we might OFFEND somebody!
The Chirpsithra will be thrilled.
This is a good idea. I once had UPS deliver a small kiosk to me that had been punctured through the LCD, through the oak cabinet, and through the receipt printer with a round object about 2 inches in diameter (measured the 6 entry/exit holes). We blamed spears. UPS said that we shipped it that way.
6 months later, they paid us for it.
So far the only footage I've seen is that taken by that single CBS news chopper. Everyone has camera phones these days. How are we not seeing hundreds of videos of this event from hundreds of points of view being posted to Youtube? Can you find any? I couldn't.
Given just how trivial it is to support left handed players in these titles, I'm surprised more don't.
Apparently it's not all that trivial. The Wii version of Twilight Princess has the entire MAP, including dungeon interiors, reversed to accommodate right-handed players for the (usually left-handed but now right-handed) Link. As in, Death Mountain is now in the west.
Even worse, the change to right-handed Link seems to be permanent, as the preview video for Sky Sword shows him to be right-handed there, too.
I can't imagine they would have gone to all that trouble if it had been a simple matter of reversing the Link model, especially since Miyamoto is left-handed.
So when my cable internet bill goes up 25% this year my only recourse is to dump the TV.
Make sure they don't get you there, too. Mediacom (for example) charges you an extra $20/month for broadband service if you don't get TV service from them.
Amusingly, even with that punitive rate tacked on, that plus my DirecTV subscription are still cheaper than Mediacom's TV service.
Interestingly enough the first video is now only 46 seconds long. Never saw the pre-selecting piece.
I know! I know! We can teleport a giant squid-looking thing directly into New York city, and set it up so it broadcasts horrible imagery to the entire human race moments before it dies, thus convincing the world that aliens are invading and uniting us against a perceived common threat!
We might have a few casualties, though. You okay with that?
That's what the "temporarily allow all this site" option is for. Besides, the only times I've seen that happen is on "Hur lookit da funny video" sites, where they are embedding content that's wrapped in a flash object that's hosted on another site while streaming the video source for still a 3rd site into it while simultaneously displaying ads for all 3 AND using a comment script linked to a 4th site.
And even then, 9/10 times I can watch the video just by right-clicking it and choosing "Temporarily allow".
Noscript makes the web usable again.
I believe that Android phones send the recordings off to Google, where they are analyzed and the text sent back to the phone.
Of course that is a very morbid thing to consider, and is sufficiently horrible, not to mention suicidal, that we'd never actually do it...
Don't underestimate the perversity of our species. There are people right now, on this earth, at this very moment, who would answer the question "Should all human life on this planet be destroyed?" with a resounding "YES!".
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett... if you put a button deep in a cave somewhere and put up a painted sign next to it saying "End of world button, do not touch!" the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
I'm sure you roar get ding fan plastic results from goo gull boys, two eye find it variably hell full.
You're lucky you didn't try that today. You'd be expelled and probably have criminal charges brought against you. Kids today aren't allowed to defend themselves thanks to zero-tolerance crap.
It's New York, no one will care.
Or notice.
Geez, warn a guy before you start flinging that stuff around, will you? My monitor went dark for a second there!
This works great up until you decide/have to move and try to sell the house. Or a neighbor complains about something. Or someone gets hurt on your property (while trying to break in, for example). Once any of those things happens, a city inspector will become VERY interested in ANY modifications you've made to the property without a permit. They need the revenue from those fines, after all.
Well at least the families in those 75,000 homes won't have to worry about their electric bills for- wait, what? That's not how it works?