You might have seen a beta version with plastic wheels, which I heard about once. The production model has rubber wheels, which leave no scratches on any of my wooden floors. The only place I would worry about it on wood would be on the edge of solid wood stairs because the little pressure wheel on the front that keeps it from falling could scratch the corner of the wood where it slid down then back up.
Oh, I forgot the IR reciever which counts as a "bump" against the virtual wall, and the little spring-loaded pressure sensor on the bottom that counts as a "bump" against an imaginary wall when it is about to fall off a ledge.
It does have an algorithm, albeit a simple one. It has 3 modes: spiral, cut across the room, and follow the wall (which is pretty smart by itself). To decide which of the 3 to use it has 3 inputs: the bumper (which is actually two inputs), the IR rangefinder on top, and a timer. The general pattern is to spiral until it hits something and then follow that something for an [apparently] arbitrary amount of time, then cut across the room. If it hits something else soon then it follows that, if it doesnt then it spirals once it gets far away from everything. That is of course the very simple version, I am sure that if you observed it for a few days you could glean a few more quirks and details.
But what if both windows are children of the same application? I speak of Opera (or Mozilla) of course. The background window gets input focus and the browser keeps application focus.
Following logs is a pretty dumb idea anyways. I use opera and yet I always report Mozilla or OE as my user agent because so many sites give me an "upgrade your browser" page if I report Opera.
Prop Cycle, which came out under a couple of other names too, was my favorite excercise game. I used to play it a lot at the local arcade. Much more fun than any other excercise I have gotten. By far the best arcade game with serious excercise involved. Too bad it didnt include a multiplayer mode, deathmatch (with little guns on the cycle) would have been amazing fun.
YOU dont have to know. The customer does. Just put a click-through agreement on your downloads that prohibits download in any jurisdiction where the program is illegal.
Firstly, you could probably get around something like this by refusing to distribute the program to anyone in any location where the program is illegal, and denying permission for the program to be distributed by others in those places too.
Secondly, youre only liable for the travel if you actually want to go defend yourself. You could just skip it. Would be safe if your country's extradition treaty with the USA (if it even has one) didnt include copyright type offenses.
Yes. You could be sued in Canada for violating your contract, which I assume is illegal up there too. Or you could be sued in the USA and our people would talk to your people and make them ship you down here.
Do you have any idea what it takes to connect a 286 to something capable of recording high quality digital video? I would guess at least one box and one dongle, both of which no one has made in 10 years.
It isnt neccessarily MY money, it is the money they made by having me visit their site. It has happened with radio before. A radio station ran a series of too-good-to-be-true bogus contests which inflated their ratings and listener base to insanely high levels, which made them oodles of cash from their advertising customers. You dont have to make the money off the person youre lying to to have commited fraud. My time and patronage is worth exactly as much money as you make off of it, and if you lie to me to get it then you owe SOMEONE their money back.
Site is/.'d so I cant read it, but I assume the subpoena stated specific dates for logs, ending no later than the date it was issued. By the time they got it they would have already deleted those logs.
I am well aware of what the job entails. I *LOVE* hunting for bugs. In anything. I spent days looking for bugs in the interface for my digital cable box (and found 3).
*envy* I wish I could get a job like that. I'd do it for minimum wage and no benefits. That would be the same pay I can make where I live doing anything else, and I would actually enjoy my job.
intercepting them is legal (except for cable, which it is illegal to "steal" in most states). watching them is legal. REDISTRIBUTING them is illegal regardless of whether you are selling it or not. Fair Use applies to clips, quotes, screenshots, etc, not entire episodes.
anyone who never deals with people outside the company should be allowed to wear anything they damn well please. i would never work in an office with a dress code. why should i be wearing a business? its uncomfortable, expensive, and cramps my style.
cant get an OREGON driver's license. why not just visit a neighboring state for a few hours and get one early? my mom loves to wax nostalgaic with a story about her driving to AL from MS to get her license at 15 when the legal age in MS was 16.
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You might have seen a beta version with plastic wheels, which I heard about once. The production model has rubber wheels, which leave no scratches on any of my wooden floors. The only place I would worry about it on wood would be on the edge of solid wood stairs because the little pressure wheel on the front that keeps it from falling could scratch the corner of the wood where it slid down then back up.
Oh, I forgot the IR reciever which counts as a "bump" against the virtual wall, and the little spring-loaded pressure sensor on the bottom that counts as a "bump" against an imaginary wall when it is about to fall off a ledge.
It does have an algorithm, albeit a simple one. It has 3 modes: spiral, cut across the room, and follow the wall (which is pretty smart by itself). To decide which of the 3 to use it has 3 inputs: the bumper (which is actually two inputs), the IR rangefinder on top, and a timer.
The general pattern is to spiral until it hits something and then follow that something for an [apparently] arbitrary amount of time, then cut across the room. If it hits something else soon then it follows that, if it doesnt then it spirals once it gets far away from everything. That is of course the very simple version, I am sure that if you observed it for a few days you could glean a few more quirks and details.
Their site is broken. But if that link is to what I think it is, the Roomba costs about 10% of what the automatic Electrolux vacuum cost.
No, it's like an 'icture'
But what if both windows are children of the same application? I speak of Opera (or Mozilla) of course. The background window gets input focus and the browser keeps application focus.
Following logs is a pretty dumb idea anyways. I use opera and yet I always report Mozilla or OE as my user agent because so many sites give me an "upgrade your browser" page if I report Opera.
And giving focus to something in a background window is damn annoying.
Prop Cycle, which came out under a couple of other names too, was my favorite excercise game. I used to play it a lot at the local arcade. Much more fun than any other excercise I have gotten. By far the best arcade game with serious excercise involved. Too bad it didnt include a multiplayer mode, deathmatch (with little guns on the cycle) would have been amazing fun.
YOU dont have to know. The customer does. Just put a click-through agreement on your downloads that prohibits download in any jurisdiction where the program is illegal.
Firstly, you could probably get around something like this by refusing to distribute the program to anyone in any location where the program is illegal, and denying permission for the program to be distributed by others in those places too.
Secondly, youre only liable for the travel if you actually want to go defend yourself. You could just skip it. Would be safe if your country's extradition treaty with the USA (if it even has one) didnt include copyright type offenses.
Yes. You could be sued in Canada for violating your contract, which I assume is illegal up there too. Or you could be sued in the USA and our people would talk to your people and make them ship you down here.
Yes, of course there is. But I dont recall ever owning a 286 with a VGA display. Not to say they didnt exist, but I never had one.
Do you have any idea what it takes to connect a 286 to something capable of recording high quality digital video? I would guess at least one box and one dongle, both of which no one has made in 10 years.
It isnt neccessarily MY money, it is the money they made by having me visit their site. It has happened with radio before. A radio station ran a series of too-good-to-be-true bogus contests which inflated their ratings and listener base to insanely high levels, which made them oodles of cash from their advertising customers. You dont have to make the money off the person youre lying to to have commited fraud. My time and patronage is worth exactly as much money as you make off of it, and if you lie to me to get it then you owe SOMEONE their money back.
Why not? Have you read the various Electronic Signature laws?
Site is /.'d so I cant read it, but I assume the subpoena stated specific dates for logs, ending no later than the date it was issued. By the time they got it they would have already deleted those logs.
GAH! Stop treating me like I dont know what the job is like. I know EXACTLY what game testing is like. And I still want to do it!
I am well aware of what the job entails. I *LOVE* hunting for bugs. In anything. I spent days looking for bugs in the interface for my digital cable box (and found 3).
*envy*
I wish I could get a job like that. I'd do it for minimum wage and no benefits. That would be the same pay I can make where I live doing anything else, and I would actually enjoy my job.
intercepting them is legal (except for cable, which it is illegal to "steal" in most states). watching them is legal. REDISTRIBUTING them is illegal regardless of whether you are selling it or not. Fair Use applies to clips, quotes, screenshots, etc, not entire episodes.
anyone who never deals with people outside the company should be allowed to wear anything they damn well please. i would never work in an office with a dress code. why should i be wearing a business? its uncomfortable, expensive, and cramps my style.
cant get an OREGON driver's license. why not just visit a neighboring state for a few hours and get one early? my mom loves to wax nostalgaic with a story about her driving to AL from MS to get her license at 15 when the legal age in MS was 16.
live in a democracy? not me, I live in a republic (USA)