I am old enough to remember that the Scroll Lock key actually did lock the scrolling of an old text-based terminal window. They didn't even have a buffer to "scroll" back up, so if you needed to see something, it was that or forget it.
It basically froze the entire computer and stopped processing. You can see a modern analog of that in a Windows "DOS" window (do a "dir" on a large directory). Scroll Lock doesn't work, but you can use the mouse to "select" a bit of text while it's moving and the whole thing halts, including any computation from that window.
Look, the owners want the billions in toy sales and McDonald's cups. The people in charge of the almost incidental film creation couldn't make it. The money lost delaying those toy sales a year is worth more than the profits of a hit.
> udge A. Raymond Randolph repeatedly said the legal provisions cited by the FCC were > mere policy statements that by themselves can't justify the commission's > action. 'You have yet to identify a specific statute,' he said.
Wait, I feel about this...uhh.
I have to first figure out whether I'm for this issue or not before I can decide whether I like the idea of a roving band of officials whose word is the power of law, rather than an actual law.
Political philosophy follows the ideas you want to impose on others, and not from first principles.
Did you miss the part in the Bible where God beats the crap out of other gods, like Leviathan and the Egyptian Pharoah's god (the whole sticks-into-snakes bit)?
He is a jealous god, and thou shalt have no other gods before him! And he means real, existing gods, not pseudo-gods like money and power.
In any case, we know this virus thing is false, since God made everybody, and would hand-craft the DNA, so if it resembles anything in a virus, it's just coincidence.
> And you'd get your own place rather than a luxury coffin.
Eh, 3D glasses, headphones, and an Internet connection, and you can run around fantasy lands as much as you want. Stupid pink body in a tube, who needs it? We're mind, baby!
A certain percent of unclaimed minutes are built into the cost structure of the phone companies, allowing lower rates. It's similar to unused miles on airlines' frequent flier programs.
Government being what it is, it's not surprising they're trying to seize it. This will just increase costs for DC residents. It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, and is thus a tax, regardless of the mental gymnastics (read: accounting "irregularities") used to justify it.
Treaties will be flat-out ignored if they get in the way. So Sayeth The Scared Voters.
Indeed, no politician would dream of even quickly officially undoing or altering said treaties for fear of looking like they view paperwork as more important than lives.
Secondly, as for where to aim it, any asteroid big enough to worry about, but small enough it could hit somewhere on Earth and not kill everyone, is a teeny, tiny size window. It should be trivially easy to turn it into rubble that mostly burns up, or effortlessly deflect it.
Remember that 1 mile per hour sideways (or slowed, or sped up) adds up to thousands of miles deviation over 6 months or several years. Even less is really all that's needed with enough time. And smallish asteroids, i.e. "less than a mountain" we are well within the technology to easily smash it to bits and send the pieces flying at much higher speed than that.
So whoever's doing this "social analysis" sounds himself like a physical scientist, and not a politician who knows how easily it would be to make this happen to "save the lives of millions of registered voters", to borrow from Ghostbusters.
For christ's sake, people, this year's US deficit for one year is $1.4 trillion, just based on hot air about scary the economy is, and you know those politicians have to be dragged kicking and screaming to spend money to get votes.
"Taunt" is an evil, unrealistic power in a battle scenario.
It turns the warrior into a low-damage pseudo-controller, which is the exact opposite of the concept of a vicious melee fighter. High armored individuals have to be low damage output to make sure they can't kill things easily while, in turn, being very tough to kill themselves.
But several games, noticeably City of Heroes, have shown you don't need a taunting tank. They have it, but they show you don't need it. Why? Because there are tons of other powers for crowd control.
So the solution: Get rid of taunt. Then there is no "tank" per se, just varied melee who can stand up to a few individuals for a limited amount of time, but who also do a lot more damage to compensate.
The CoH "Scrapper" class is exactly this: melee who can cut things down 1-on-1 very quickly, and actually specialize at being a boss killer (boss being not quite the super-boss normally used as "boss" in other games.)
And the monsters are weaker, but there are a lot more. This isn't a problem with modern games, where 25 monsters against 6 people might have been a problem in EverQuest for the framerate.
Death to taunt! >:-( The root of all evil in MMORPG design!
Damn. Here I thought this was gonna be a way to guarantee all cuts were exactly in the center, to avoid odd little rhomboids and whatnot that are technically cut into the center, and not just the equivalent of taking an infinitely large, perfectly cut pizza, then stamping out a round subset somewhere abouts the center point.
Oh my god. They're finally noticing how it is a huge time waste, and wrecking kids' attention spans, turning them into near-zombie glassy-eyed people for whom the real world is just too boring.
> -~=*=~-~=*=~-pr0n think of the children pr0n!-~=*=~-~=*=~-~=*=~-
> "European researchers have developed a new approach to artificial intelligence that could > allow computers to respond to behavior as well as commands, reacting intelligently to the > subtle nuances of human communication. It's no trivial feat - many humans struggle > with the challenge on a day-to-day basis."
> The only fair use factor on which the defendant offered any challenge to was the effect of > his file sharing on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted works. See 17 U.S.C. > 107(4). He argued that file sharing has not diminished the record companies' revenues nor > curtailed overall artistic creation. But here, again, the Court was offered a vacuum -- no > affidavits, no facts.
"Daddy, WTF!" I take it "but everybuddy knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwws it's true!" didn't cut it with the judge.
"Here's our cool phone that can surf the internet no matter where you are and you can download and watch videos! Buy us! Ok, thanks. Now just don't actually do that too much."
The whole concept reminds me of arguments about scanned pictures, where one guy who scanned a copyrighted image and put it on the Internet gets all pissed off that some other guy uses it on his site. "You're ripping off all the work I did!"
Or you might need to listen to a planet-wide broadcast of the method and timings to coordinate a massive worldwide counter-attack with a window of only a few minutes.
1. Government failed to protect the rights of certain people. "Government" was made up of many people who had, or wanted to allow, slaves.
2. The alternative to "wage slave" you no doubt suggest, will be something like "living wage", at best, or some completely communist system where everybody is assigned a job. However, the alternative to "wage slave" is, in the first case, not a living wage, but no wage at all. In the second case, it is a life that's measurably worse off (actual measurements of health, longevity, happiness, quality of live, number of TVs per house, etc.) than being a "wage slave" in the West.
Well, lesse. According to TFA, people mis-used and committed major fraud to get way too much money from the government for the railroads, so that's a flaw of...capitalism.
It's the greed that works but also corrupts. Ironically, the solution isn't making sure government is the only place greedy people are "permitted" to play.
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I am old enough to remember that the Scroll Lock key actually did lock the scrolling of an old text-based terminal window. They didn't even have a buffer to "scroll" back up, so if you needed to see something, it was that or forget it.
It basically froze the entire computer and stopped processing. You can see a modern analog of that in a Windows "DOS" window (do a "dir" on a large directory). Scroll Lock doesn't work, but you can use the mouse to "select" a bit of text while it's moving and the whole thing halts, including any computation from that window.
I never knew what SysRq did, though :)
ETA to a televangelist showing how the Bible predicted life on other worlds: 2 days and counting. :rolleyes:
> Or there would be 50% more dead space junk on jupiter now
On? On Jupiter?
Turn in your nerd card immediately!
Look, the owners want the billions in toy sales and McDonald's cups. The people in charge of the almost incidental film creation couldn't make it. The money lost delaying those toy sales a year is worth more than the profits of a hit.
> udge A. Raymond Randolph repeatedly said the legal provisions cited by the FCC were
> mere policy statements that by themselves can't justify the commission's
> action. 'You have yet to identify a specific statute,' he said.
Wait, I feel about this...uhh.
I have to first figure out whether I'm for this issue or not before I can decide whether I like the idea of a roving band of officials whose word is the power of law, rather than an actual law.
Political philosophy follows the ideas you want to impose on others, and not from first principles.
Did they remember to patent hacking the encryption within 30s of release? Otherwise the hackers will get away with it!
The Linux drivers for it may be delayed since that's about when the Unix time rolls over.
Did you miss the part in the Bible where God beats the crap out of other gods, like Leviathan and the Egyptian Pharoah's god (the whole sticks-into-snakes bit)?
He is a jealous god, and thou shalt have no other gods before him! And he means real, existing gods, not pseudo-gods like money and power.
In any case, we know this virus thing is false, since God made everybody, and would hand-craft the DNA, so if it resembles anything in a virus, it's just coincidence.
> And you'd get your own place rather than a luxury coffin.
Eh, 3D glasses, headphones, and an Internet connection, and you can run around fantasy lands as much as you want. Stupid pink body in a tube, who needs it? We're mind, baby!
A certain percent of unclaimed minutes are built into the cost structure of the phone companies, allowing lower rates. It's similar to unused miles on airlines' frequent flier programs.
Government being what it is, it's not surprising they're trying to seize it. This will just increase costs for DC residents. It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, and is thus a tax, regardless of the mental gymnastics (read: accounting "irregularities") used to justify it.
Treaties will be flat-out ignored if they get in the way. So Sayeth The Scared Voters.
Indeed, no politician would dream of even quickly officially undoing or altering said treaties for fear of looking like they view paperwork as more important than lives.
Secondly, as for where to aim it, any asteroid big enough to worry about, but small enough it could hit somewhere on Earth and not kill everyone, is a teeny, tiny size window. It should be trivially easy to turn it into rubble that mostly burns up, or effortlessly deflect it.
Remember that 1 mile per hour sideways (or slowed, or sped up) adds up to thousands of miles deviation over 6 months or several years. Even less is really all that's needed with enough time. And smallish asteroids, i.e. "less than a mountain" we are well within the technology to easily smash it to bits and send the pieces flying at much higher speed than that.
So whoever's doing this "social analysis" sounds himself like a physical scientist, and not a politician who knows how easily it would be to make this happen to "save the lives of millions of registered voters", to borrow from Ghostbusters.
For christ's sake, people, this year's US deficit for one year is $1.4 trillion , just based on hot air about scary the economy is, and you know those politicians have to be dragged kicking and screaming to spend money to get votes.
"Taunt" is an evil, unrealistic power in a battle scenario.
It turns the warrior into a low-damage pseudo-controller, which is the exact opposite of the concept of a vicious melee fighter. High armored individuals have to be low damage output to make sure they can't kill things easily while, in turn, being very tough to kill themselves.
But several games, noticeably City of Heroes, have shown you don't need a taunting tank. They have it, but they show you don't need it. Why? Because there are tons of other powers for crowd control.
So the solution: Get rid of taunt. Then there is no "tank" per se, just varied melee who can stand up to a few individuals for a limited amount of time, but who also do a lot more damage to compensate.
The CoH "Scrapper" class is exactly this: melee who can cut things down 1-on-1 very quickly, and actually specialize at being a boss killer (boss being not quite the super-boss normally used as "boss" in other games.)
And the monsters are weaker, but there are a lot more. This isn't a problem with modern games, where 25 monsters against 6 people might have been a problem in EverQuest for the framerate.
Death to taunt! >:-( The root of all evil in MMORPG design!
Damn. Here I thought this was gonna be a way to guarantee all cuts were exactly in the center, to avoid odd little rhomboids and whatnot that are technically cut into the center, and not just the equivalent of taking an infinitely large, perfectly cut pizza, then stamping out a round subset somewhere abouts the center point.
So China is, as probably prompted by the US, shutting down file sharing.
Yet that is also a backup distribution method for information in this near-totalitarian society.
I'm glad we have our priorities straight in pressuring them for reform.
> FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors
Oh my god. They're finally noticing how it is a huge time waste, and wrecking kids' attention spans, turning them into near-zombie glassy-eyed people for whom the real world is just too boring.
> -~=*=~-~=*=~-pr0n think of the children pr0n!-~=*=~-~=*=~-~=*=~-
Uhhhhh...right.
> "European researchers have developed a new approach to artificial intelligence that could
> allow computers to respond to behavior as well as commands, reacting intelligently to the
> subtle nuances of human communication. It's no trivial feat - many humans struggle
> with the challenge on a day-to-day basis."
Great. Now sexbots can turn down nerds, too.
I wish the court would render an opinion against the retarded trend of inventing hip new names for stuff. "Seriously?" Seriously?
> That would be good news indeed, can you expound on that a little?
Do you want full-blown bloviation, or just for him to satisfy the case and controversy requirement?
From TFCJ:
> The only fair use factor on which the defendant offered any challenge to was the effect of
> his file sharing on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted works. See 17 U.S.C.
> 107(4). He argued that file sharing has not diminished the record companies' revenues nor
> curtailed overall artistic creation. But here, again, the Court was offered a vacuum -- no
> affidavits, no facts.
"Daddy, WTF!" I take it "but everybuddy knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwws it's true!" didn't cut it with the judge.
"Here's our cool phone that can surf the internet no matter where you are and you can download and watch videos! Buy us! Ok, thanks. Now just don't actually do that too much."
The whole concept reminds me of arguments about scanned pictures, where one guy who scanned a copyrighted image and put it on the Internet gets all pissed off that some other guy uses it on his site. "You're ripping off all the work I did!"
Or you might need to listen to a planet-wide broadcast of the method and timings to coordinate a massive worldwide counter-attack with a window of only a few minutes.
1. Government failed to protect the rights of certain people. "Government" was made up of many people who had, or wanted to allow, slaves.
2. The alternative to "wage slave" you no doubt suggest, will be something like "living wage", at best, or some completely communist system where everybody is assigned a job. However, the alternative to "wage slave" is, in the first case, not a living wage, but no wage at all. In the second case, it is a life that's measurably worse off (actual measurements of health, longevity, happiness, quality of live, number of TVs per house, etc.) than being a "wage slave" in the West.
Well, lesse. According to TFA, people mis-used and committed major fraud to get way too much money from the government for the railroads, so that's a flaw of...capitalism.
It's the greed that works but also corrupts. Ironically, the solution isn't making sure government is the only place greedy people are "permitted" to play.
> Insert joke here.
- Kills 386,240,502 hogs /shout NE1 have gold 2 giv? in Stormreach 32,768 times
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- Turtled AV frozen middle area 217,000 times (!)