the gyroscopic forces produced by the wheels are an EXTREMELY small part of what actually keeps a bicycle upright. bicycles are actually kept upright by a system of negative feedback in which even the slightest deviation from vertical tends to pull the front wheel sideways in a manner so that it rights itself (due to the angular momentum of the entire bike+rider). this has been explicitly proven by people who built bicycles very strangely so has to produce the opposite behavior of the front wheel, they were almost impossible to ride.
I am going to try to be concise. It will appear that I am leaving many things out, because I am. The UCC is long, like all laws. Feel free to add to this if theres anything you think contradicts it. Please note that I am breaking many heirarchies, do NOT assume that (1) and then (b) means its 1b, it could be 7b, or from a different section. I will keep actually adjacent sections together and nonadjacent seperated by a blank line. The bold italic part near the end is the most important part, so you can skip to it if you just want the answer to your search.
(1) Rejection of goods must be within a reasonable time after their delivery or tender. It is ineffective unless the buyer seasonably notifies the seller.
(c) the buyer has no further obligations with regard to goods rightfully rejected.
(1) Acceptance of goods occurs when the buyer (a) after a reasonable opportunity to inspect the goods signifies to the seller that the goods are conforming or that he will take or retain them in spite of their non-conformity; or (b) fails to make an effective rejection (subsection (1) of Section 2-602 ), but such acceptance does not occur until the buyer has had a reasonable opportunity to inspect them;
(1) The buyer may revoke his acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose non-conformity substantially impairs its value to him if he has accepted it (b) without discovery of such non-conformity if his acceptance was reasonably induced either by the difficulty of discovery before acceptance or by the seller's assurances.
(1) Where the seller fails to make delivery or repudiates or the buyer rightfully rejects or justifiably revokes acceptance then with respect to any goods involved, and with respect to the whole if the breach goes to the whole contract (Section 2-612 ), the buyer may cancel and whether or not he has done so may in addition to recovering so much of the price as has been paid (a) "cover" and have damages under the next section as to all the goods affected whether or not they have been identified to the contract
(1) After a breach within the preceding section the buyer may "cover" by making in good faith and without unreasonable delay any reasonable purchase of or contract to purchase goods in substitution for those due from the seller. (2) The buyer may recover from the seller as damages the difference between the cost of cover and the contract price together with any incidental or consequential damages as hereinafter defined (Section 2-715 ), but less expenses saved in consequence of the seller's breach.
I would like to reiterate some of the bold parts, paraphrased. If you dont like it, you can reject it. If you dont reject it but it doesnt conform to your expectations, you can revoke your acceptance. If you do either of those then not only are you entitled to recover whatever of the price you have paid, but you also have the nifty option of buying a replacement and having the original seller reimburse you for the difference in cost. That last part applies less so to games than to office software, but a perfect example would be Tax software. You need it and you need it TODAY, so if the software you get doesnt meet the expectations set forth then you have the option of getting a replacement elsewhere at the seller's expense.
PS: 90% of slashdot readers qualify as a Merchant Buyer with regards to purchasing software, which adds a few more really juicy options that take a lot more reading to get into. I leave that as an excercise for the reader.
where we have the UCC which says they have to give you a refund (yeah, theres restrictions. no, joe gamer isnt affected by any of them). they dont like it? tough titties. Always take a copy with you when you go to return a game. has never failed.
The connectors wont work backwards, they will be connected wrong (pin 1 of a 80-pin two-row connector would be on pin 80 or pin 41 of the motherboard, and vice versa). And even if that did work, almost every stock connector on a motherboard is too tall to fit between the board and the 'back' (right side) wall of the chassis, or the motherboard tray if there is one.
You can build your own ultra-flat replacement connectors for every cable attached to the motherboard and connect them to the BACK of the board, completely hidden. I had to do it once for the power connector because my case was arranged oddly enough that the cord couldnt get to the normal plug.
A) Accounts receivable are an asset. And, like any asset, they can be sold.
Sure, they can sell them. And that has absolutely no bearing on why *I* owe money to. Unless the real debtor has given the collection agency a power of attorney its perfectly save to ignore them until you pay back the original debt. I have done it hundreds of times. They dont have a leg to stand on.
What is really missing from the chart is statistics on MS Office:) I want to see Office 2003, Office 2002, Office... 97 on that chart, and see how well each of them handles this 'random' sample of office files. Forwards compatibility is almost non-existent, and backwards compatibility is much more broken than you would think. I think Star Office and Open Office might actually beat MS Office * in that scoring methodology.
The beautiful part of this is that courts have held, unfortunately in non-precedent-setting cases, that when the law says "or causes to be sent" about an email, it applies to Symantec (or whoever) no matter how many subcontractors are between them and the spammer.
Sure, "anyone" can tell its not true, but the ads sure as hell dont make that clear. I am positive some kid somewhere has bought a can of red bull and been disappointed that he didnt get wings, and think it very likely that eventually some kid will jump off a roof and his parents will sue (ever wonder why superman costumes have a sticker that says 'custume does not make you fly'?)
Not to mention the Axe deodorant commercials. If they were to be believed then this stuff would be the strongest aphrodisiac ever. Millions of geeks the world over are gonna be disappointed if they believe those commercials.
The store is my sole point of monetary contact (presuming a non-pay-to-play game, which this is not, but many are). You are like the person who argues that when I want a refund for Windows I should call Microsoft. No, I call the store I bought it from. If you give someone money for something then they are commercially responsible for any of the promises on the box, which are all parts of the contract for sale between you and them.
Build a ramp and it will have no problems ascending to your couch. I have it vacuum my raised areas in this manner, just requires some thinking in the shape of the ramp.
The dirt compartment is about the size of a VHS tape (give or take). Yes, it fills up quickly if you vacuum once a month. This is not a problem because the idea of the Roomba is to run it every day, sometimes twice a day. Go vacuum your living room with a fresh bag, then put another fresh bag in it and vacuum again the next day. See how much dirt/hair is in the second bag. That is all the Roomba needs to handle.
After intentionally disabling the ledge sensors in mine and having it take a tumble down a flight of stairs I can tell you that this is one of the most durable mobile appliances in my house, easily tougher than my normal vacuum cleaner.
What I am waiting for is the slew of complaints from people taking their games back to stores for refunds now that they cant play online. That is what I do when online game servers go down (as quite a few older games have done), and the store owners always throw a fit.
One important thing to remember about truth tables is that the number of operands (the numbers you give to a function to get an output) for a given operator is NOT always the same as the base. For base two you have two operand operations, which we all know as AND OR XOR, but you also have operations that require only one operand, the common NOT (1->0, 0->1) and what I will call EQV (1->1, 0->0). There are also 9 more two operand truth tables that you see in varying degrees of extreme rarity, f/e the following arbitrary truth table that you will never see in practice: A B out 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
Apply this to base 3 and you find that there are not just 3-operand operations but 1 and 2 as well. For one operand you can have a rotate-down(0>2,1>0,2>1), shift-down (0>0,1>0,2>1), rotate-up (note that in binary one-operand rotation happens to coincide with NOT), shift-up, and various arbitrary tables like the one above. For two operands you have NeitherBoth (00>0,01>2,02>1,10>2,11>1,12>0,20>1,21>0,22>2), and the arithmetic operators, plus a bunch of others with explanations i cant think of right now. For three operands there are thousands of possible truth tables, many with useful explanations, many many more arbitrary ones. Oh, and for both 2 and 3 operands you have multiple partial or complete counterparts to the traditional binary AND OR XOR that apply the same kinds of rules to the operands.
One of the best parts of Ternary (Trinary, base 3) is that you can use BALANCED Ternary, in which the digits are not 0, 1, and 2, but are -1, 0, and 1. This allows you to represent any integer without a sign bit. Letting N represent -1 digit you can represent -17 in balanced ternary as 101N (1*(3^0),0*(3^1),1*(3^2),N*(3^3)).
Mozilla's bayesian spam classification is a direct implementation of the original "Plan for Spam" algorithm. However, it is broken in a number of ways, both in terms of classification and problems with training. I have filed bug reports for all of the problems and some are being worked on. As it stands right now Mozilla performs worse than any other Bayesian filter and probably on par with the 'crippled' SpamAssassin used in this test.
Congratulations. By not only having heard of, but also having played, remembered, and liked enough to mention on/., Dungeons of Daggorath, Scorched Earth, and Archon, you have become my first slashdot Friend. Long live the Old Skool!
ry Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. with both expansions. as close to an RPG as youre going to get. the least linear story line (to the point that you can forget what story line youre on) of any RPG ever. the interworkings of the guild memberships, reputation, stats actual affects on the game, and a few other key features make the story the most diverse ever. Yes, in the end the conversation and story options are static, but they are so diverse that you might never notice it even if you play through the game 3 or 4 times (it takes hundreds, if not thousands, of hours to complete the entire game, but you can 'win' after playing only 5%).
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the gyroscopic forces produced by the wheels are an EXTREMELY small part of what actually keeps a bicycle upright. bicycles are actually kept upright by a system of negative feedback in which even the slightest deviation from vertical tends to pull the front wheel sideways in a manner so that it rights itself (due to the angular momentum of the entire bike+rider). this has been explicitly proven by people who built bicycles very strangely so has to produce the opposite behavior of the front wheel, they were almost impossible to ride.
I would like to reiterate some of the bold parts, paraphrased. If you dont like it, you can reject it. If you dont reject it but it doesnt conform to your expectations, you can revoke your acceptance. If you do either of those then not only are you entitled to recover whatever of the price you have paid, but you also have the nifty option of buying a replacement and having the original seller reimburse you for the difference in cost. That last part applies less so to games than to office software, but a perfect example would be Tax software. You need it and you need it TODAY, so if the software you get doesnt meet the expectations set forth then you have the option of getting a replacement elsewhere at the seller's expense.
PS: 90% of slashdot readers qualify as a Merchant Buyer with regards to purchasing software, which adds a few more really juicy options that take a lot more reading to get into. I leave that as an excercise for the reader.
where we have the UCC which says they have to give you a refund (yeah, theres restrictions. no, joe gamer isnt affected by any of them). they dont like it? tough titties. Always take a copy with you when you go to return a game. has never failed.
The connectors wont work backwards, they will be connected wrong (pin 1 of a 80-pin two-row connector would be on pin 80 or pin 41 of the motherboard, and vice versa). And even if that did work, almost every stock connector on a motherboard is too tall to fit between the board and the 'back' (right side) wall of the chassis, or the motherboard tray if there is one.
You can build your own ultra-flat replacement connectors for every cable attached to the motherboard and connect them to the BACK of the board, completely hidden. I had to do it once for the power connector because my case was arranged oddly enough that the cord couldnt get to the normal plug.
A) Accounts receivable are an asset. And, like any asset, they can be sold.
Sure, they can sell them. And that has absolutely no bearing on why *I* owe money to. Unless the real debtor has given the collection agency a power of attorney its perfectly save to ignore them until you pay back the original debt. I have done it hundreds of times. They dont have a leg to stand on.
If distributing photos of a painting is fair use, then why not a camcorder recording of a film/play? Oh wait, cuz its NOT.
G4LHI from Huntingdon is running morse lessons in 144.7625 every monday and tuesday evenings
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congratulations on the first ever ham frequency slashdotting
What is really missing from the chart is statistics on MS Office :) I want to see Office 2003, Office 2002, Office ... 97 on that chart, and see how well each of them handles this 'random' sample of office files. Forwards compatibility is almost non-existent, and backwards compatibility is much more broken than you would think. I think Star Office and Open Office might actually beat MS Office * in that scoring methodology.
The beautiful part of this is that courts have held, unfortunately in non-precedent-setting cases, that when the law says "or causes to be sent" about an email, it applies to Symantec (or whoever) no matter how many subcontractors are between them and the spammer.
the biggest problem with a system like this are what happens when you want to reinstall the game? or buy a new PC?
Red Bull gives you wings.
Sure, "anyone" can tell its not true, but the ads sure as hell dont make that clear. I am positive some kid somewhere has bought a can of red bull and been disappointed that he didnt get wings, and think it very likely that eventually some kid will jump off a roof and his parents will sue (ever wonder why superman costumes have a sticker that says 'custume does not make you fly'?)
Not to mention the Axe deodorant commercials. If they were to be believed then this stuff would be the strongest aphrodisiac ever. Millions of geeks the world over are gonna be disappointed if they believe those commercials.
The store is my sole point of monetary contact (presuming a non-pay-to-play game, which this is not, but many are). You are like the person who argues that when I want a refund for Windows I should call Microsoft. No, I call the store I bought it from. If you give someone money for something then they are commercially responsible for any of the promises on the box, which are all parts of the contract for sale between you and them.
Build a ramp and it will have no problems ascending to your couch. I have it vacuum my raised areas in this manner, just requires some thinking in the shape of the ramp.
Ten? Try 17. Sharper Image has Roombas available for $170 often (I got 3 at that price last Christmas).
The dirt compartment is about the size of a VHS tape (give or take). Yes, it fills up quickly if you vacuum once a month. This is not a problem because the idea of the Roomba is to run it every day, sometimes twice a day. Go vacuum your living room with a fresh bag, then put another fresh bag in it and vacuum again the next day. See how much dirt/hair is in the second bag. That is all the Roomba needs to handle.
After intentionally disabling the ledge sensors in mine and having it take a tumble down a flight of stairs I can tell you that this is one of the most durable mobile appliances in my house, easily tougher than my normal vacuum cleaner.
Banning your biggest spending customers isnt the best way to run a business.
What I am waiting for is the slew of complaints from people taking their games back to stores for refunds now that they cant play online. That is what I do when online game servers go down (as quite a few older games have done), and the store owners always throw a fit.
One important thing to remember about truth tables is that the number of operands (the numbers you give to a function to get an output) for a given operator is NOT always the same as the base. For base two you have two operand operations, which we all know as AND OR XOR, but you also have operations that require only one operand, the common NOT (1->0, 0->1) and what I will call EQV (1->1, 0->0). There are also 9 more two operand truth tables that you see in varying degrees of extreme rarity, f/e the following arbitrary truth table that you will never see in practice:
A B out
0 0 1
0 1 1
1 0 0
1 1 1
Apply this to base 3 and you find that there are not just 3-operand operations but 1 and 2 as well. For one operand you can have a rotate-down(0>2,1>0,2>1), shift-down (0>0,1>0,2>1), rotate-up (note that in binary one-operand rotation happens to coincide with NOT), shift-up, and various arbitrary tables like the one above. For two operands you have NeitherBoth (00>0,01>2,02>1,10>2,11>1,12>0,20>1,21>0,22>2), and the arithmetic operators, plus a bunch of others with explanations i cant think of right now. For three operands there are thousands of possible truth tables, many with useful explanations, many many more arbitrary ones. Oh, and for both 2 and 3 operands you have multiple partial or complete counterparts to the traditional binary AND OR XOR that apply the same kinds of rules to the operands.
One of the best parts of Ternary (Trinary, base 3) is that you can use BALANCED Ternary, in which the digits are not 0, 1, and 2, but are -1, 0, and 1. This allows you to represent any integer without a sign bit. Letting N represent -1 digit you can represent -17 in balanced ternary as 101N (1*(3^0),0*(3^1),1*(3^2),N*(3^3)).
You can check out http://www.trinary.cc/Tutorial/Tutorial.htm for many examples of ternary circuits using ternary logic gates.
How about + voltage, no voltage, - voltage? Thats the most basic way to implement ternary logic into electrical circuits.
Mozilla's bayesian spam classification is a direct implementation of the original "Plan for Spam" algorithm. However, it is broken in a number of ways, both in terms of classification and problems with training. I have filed bug reports for all of the problems and some are being worked on. As it stands right now Mozilla performs worse than any other Bayesian filter and probably on par with the 'crippled' SpamAssassin used in this test.
Congratulations. By not only having heard of, but also having played, remembered, and liked enough to mention on /., Dungeons of Daggorath, Scorched Earth, and Archon, you have become my first slashdot Friend. Long live the Old Skool!
ry Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. with both expansions. as close to an RPG as youre going to get. the least linear story line (to the point that you can forget what story line youre on) of any RPG ever. the interworkings of the guild memberships, reputation, stats actual affects on the game, and a few other key features make the story the most diverse ever. Yes, in the end the conversation and story options are static, but they are so diverse that you might never notice it even if you play through the game 3 or 4 times (it takes hundreds, if not thousands, of hours to complete the entire game, but you can 'win' after playing only 5%).