For those of us like me, whose eyes work for crap, 800x600 is the only resolution that gives a) decent screen size to b) reduced chance of blazing migraine from squinting at that tiny font size.
That's fine on a 14", 15" and if your eyes are really bad, even a 17" monitor. It's the people who stick with 800x600 on 19" and above that bother me.
It's not an actual person you talk to- you read the number aloud (as opposed to touch tone) to a computer. You have to speak slow and deliberately for it to understand the numbers correctly, and ultimately it will read a confirmation code back to you. The whole process takes about 5-7 minutes, depending on whether the computer understood you correctly the first time.
You can speak slowly and deliberately to the computer, but you can still enter the numbers by touchtone.
Yes, and I should be able to walk around all parts of a major metropolitan area without fear of getting mugged. Guess what? That is just not true.
I take it that you're not Canadian.
I live near a city of approximately 380,000 people. Maybe that's not major enough for you, but I can't think of any area of it that I would fear being mugged.
I don't know the larger cities that well, maybe Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver have mugging problems.
When I was a kid we had to cool our chips by using our little brothers as a heatsink.
For those who don't get the reference, Bill Cosby has a story about how he used to bathe in the toilet as a child. But he found that the water was too cold so he'd use his little brother Russell to warm up the water.
Of course, I could be completely wrong and this might have nothing to do with that bit.
Have you ever spent time relating to a nine-year-old child? They dont know what the hell they're doing. If they did, we'd let them vote, drink and buy property, as well as give their consent to engage in sexual activity. But they don't
The hard part is figuring out at what age to draw the line. Most cultures agree that 9 is too young, but the age of consent where I live is 14. Many other places set it at 16, 18, or somewhere between.
The odd thing is that although a 14 year old can consent to sex in this country, taking pictures of that act would be illegal.
If two people under 18 videotape themselves having sex, they could be considered guilty of creating child pornography. A very strange world we live in.
I'm sure some people remember the incident where Cat Schwartz (from TechTV) posted a couple of cropped photos on her website. The problem was that the data was still there and uncropping the photos showed her topless. I hope that these cops didn't make the same mistake.
the cellular based onstar service works outside of the cellular coverage area?
It probably works about as well as those old-style bag phones. Bigger antenna and more power so better range than the flip phone that fits in your pocket.
In eight years (nine? whatever) she's gone from being a captain in the Air Force to a major to a lieutenant colonel. Now, ignore for a minute the fact that that's completely unreasonable.
Why is that unreasonable? She's saved Earth how many times? Or is that only worth commendations?
On commercials vs. content. In the 80s, one hour shows were 47/48 minutes of show, the rest commercials. By the late 90s they were 42 minutes of show, the rest commercials. Can't back it up with a link right now, unfortunately.
For examples of 48 minute tv shows, check out early seasons of Star Trek: TNG and Highlander. I believe the standard is now 44 minutes though I wouldn't be suprised if some shows are down to 42.
I may be completely wrong on this, so feel free to correct me, but I believe that Canada still has regulations that require TV stations to limit their commercial time to 12 minutes per hour. But then you do some math and realize that 44 + 12 still leaves 4 minutes of time to fill each hour. If they can't show commercials in those 4 minutes, what do they do?
Apparently ads for TV shows and ads for the station/network don't count towards the quota so the normal 2 minute commercial break expands to 2 minutes plus plenty of "next up on Global News, something bad happened in the world" and "next up on CTV, some cheaply made reality show"
In most juristications, you can be FORCED to hand out the key to your encrypted partitions
Unless telepathy has started to appear in humans and no one has bothered to tell me, you can never be forced to say or do anything. Perhaps you can be punished for not giving up that information or you could be tortured until you do give it up, but you can't be forced completely against your will.
Creationists (like the grandparent post) cite certain examples: the eye (there are an awful lot of pieces, and it's hard to see how a less-complex eye could exist to evolve into an eye without first being selected against)
The eye is a terrible example for creationists to bring up. It's great evidence for evolution. The human eye is wired ass-backwards (the optic nerve goes through the retina instead of attaching behind it), causing us to have a blind spot. The eyes of other creatures such as an octopus are wired with the optic nerve behind the retina.
Students have been expelled for wearing head scarves, Pentagrams, Crucifixes and the Star of David.
The story you give about a student being expelled for wearing a head scarf (hijab) is about a young women who was expelled from a private school. The same story also says that the Human Rights Commission (a government agency) has launched an investigation.
Slashdot Mirror
how come there's not a 'forbes-sucks.com'?
I expect it'll be registered pretty soon. Forbes actually does own "forbessucks.com"
Apparently they're aware of their suckiness.
If someone wanted to let the rest of the world know about Forbes' suckiness, forbesreallysucks.com and fuckforbes.com both seem to be available.
Ask and ye shall receive:
Here [nasa.gov]
I'd hit it.
Wait a minute, this isn't Fark. Plus she looks like she may have sharp knees.
For those of us like me, whose eyes work for crap, 800x600 is the only resolution that gives a) decent screen size to b) reduced chance of blazing migraine from squinting at that tiny font size.
That's fine on a 14", 15" and if your eyes are really bad, even a 17" monitor. It's the people who stick with 800x600 on 19" and above that bother me.
It's not an actual person you talk to- you read the number aloud (as opposed to touch tone) to a computer. You have to speak slow and deliberately for it to understand the numbers correctly, and ultimately it will read a confirmation code back to you. The whole process takes about 5-7 minutes, depending on whether the computer understood you correctly the first time.
You can speak slowly and deliberately to the computer, but you can still enter the numbers by touchtone.
Yes, and I should be able to walk around all parts of a major metropolitan area without fear of getting mugged. Guess what? That is just not true.
I take it that you're not Canadian.
I live near a city of approximately 380,000 people. Maybe that's not major enough for you, but I can't think of any area of it that I would fear being mugged.
I don't know the larger cities that well, maybe Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver have mugging problems.
Oh, for Pete's dude, seriously. Can't we get through one damn story without somebody making an Orwell analogy? Especially one as lame-ass as this one?
That type of thinking is doubleplus ungood. Stay where you are and wait for the Ministry of Love.
When I was a kid we had to cool our chips by using our little brothers as a heatsink.
For those who don't get the reference, Bill Cosby has a story about how he used to bathe in the toilet as a child. But he found that the water was too cold so he'd use his little brother Russell to warm up the water.
Of course, I could be completely wrong and this might have nothing to do with that bit.
And guess which network it's syndicated on? UPN.
Stargate Sg-1 is syndicated on more than just UPN. I've seen it syndicated on NBC, Fox, CH, and CityTV.
Would they be willing to do it if they got paid 1 rupee an hour?
I thought these people were playing MMORPGs, not The Legend of Zelda.
Have you ever spent time relating to a nine-year-old child? They dont know what the hell they're doing. If they did, we'd let them vote, drink and buy property, as well as give their consent to engage in sexual activity. But they don't
The hard part is figuring out at what age to draw the line. Most cultures agree that 9 is too young, but the age of consent where I live is 14. Many other places set it at 16, 18, or somewhere between.
The odd thing is that although a 14 year old can consent to sex in this country, taking pictures of that act would be illegal.
If two people under 18 videotape themselves having sex, they could be considered guilty of creating child pornography. A very strange world we live in.
I'm sure some people remember the incident where Cat Schwartz (from TechTV) posted a couple of cropped photos on her website. The problem was that the data was still there and uncropping the photos showed her topless. I hope that these cops didn't make the same mistake.
a cell fone
Watt the phuck is eh "fone"?
the cellular based onstar service works outside of the cellular coverage area?
It probably works about as well as those old-style bag phones. Bigger antenna and more power so better range than the flip phone that fits in your pocket.
In eight years (nine? whatever) she's gone from being a captain in the Air Force to a major to a lieutenant colonel. Now, ignore for a minute the fact that that's completely unreasonable.
Why is that unreasonable? She's saved Earth how many times? Or is that only worth commendations?
The point is they still aren't inventions. They are discoveries that could even be made by AI.
Not without paying a license fee to me. I've patented inventing things with AI.
On commercials vs. content. In the 80s, one hour shows were 47/48 minutes of show, the rest commercials. By the late 90s they were 42 minutes of show, the rest commercials. Can't back it up with a link right now, unfortunately.
For examples of 48 minute tv shows, check out early seasons of Star Trek: TNG and Highlander. I believe the standard is now 44 minutes though I wouldn't be suprised if some shows are down to 42.
I may be completely wrong on this, so feel free to correct me, but I believe that Canada still has regulations that require TV stations to limit their commercial time to 12 minutes per hour. But then you do some math and realize that 44 + 12 still leaves 4 minutes of time to fill each hour. If they can't show commercials in those 4 minutes, what do they do?
Apparently ads for TV shows and ads for the station/network don't count towards the quota so the normal 2 minute commercial break expands to 2 minutes plus plenty of "next up on Global News, something bad happened in the world" and "next up on CTV, some cheaply made reality show"
In most juristications, you can be FORCED to hand out the key to your encrypted partitions
Unless telepathy has started to appear in humans and no one has bothered to tell me, you can never be forced to say or do anything. Perhaps you can be punished for not giving up that information or you could be tortured until you do give it up, but you can't be forced completely against your will.
Creationists (like the grandparent post) cite certain examples: the eye (there are an awful lot of pieces, and it's hard to see how a less-complex eye could exist to evolve into an eye without first being selected against)
The eye is a terrible example for creationists to bring up. It's great evidence for evolution. The human eye is wired ass-backwards (the optic nerve goes through the retina instead of attaching behind it), causing us to have a blind spot. The eyes of other creatures such as an octopus are wired with the optic nerve behind the retina.
now tell me, what did the majority of parents want for their kids education?
Ignorance?
So the same robot could be the pusher robot and the shover robot at the same time, doubling their protection of us from the terrible secret of space.
Students have been expelled for wearing head scarves, Pentagrams, Crucifixes and the Star of David.
The story you give about a student being expelled for wearing a head scarf (hijab) is about a young women who was expelled from a private school. The same story also says that the Human Rights Commission (a government agency) has launched an investigation.
But will it be released before Duke Nukem Forever?
The source for Doom 3 will probably be released before DNF
It's collected by the CPCC (Canadian Private Copying Collective).
http://www.cpcc.ca/english/index.htm
And to my knowledge, they have never paid out a cent of the levy they have collected.
If you read the website you mentioned, you'd see that they have finally started paying out money. They're still a few years behind though.
9/11: Terrorists
Iraq: USA
This one: Nature
I think there's an obvious response to this. War on nature. We've put up with nature's attacks on us for too long! It must be destroyed!
Must be a new year. Time for the reporters to get lazy and do nothing but top 10 lists instead of covering real news stories.
Oh well, it's not like they cover real news during the rest of the year either.