You say that like that wording was unintentional! What fun is it to comment about the porn industry unless you include a half dozen or more ways to twist the words into being something perverted? None I say!
Porn has a history of adapting to new technology a lot faster than the major movie studios. They end up as essentially the first group to pick up a format, which then gives that format a big lead in terms of acceptance and units sold. The extra lead snowballs into the format dominating over the other.
Admit it, which ever group is the most expiremental and fastest to move and use a new media the most tends to get to choose which direction it goes, and I don't think anyone would argue against the porn industry being the fastest moving and most experimental.
They stopped doing that here. There is still someone standing by the door but I haven't seen them try to stop someone in years.
There seemed to be a lot of people who quite vocally stopped shopping there because of them checking their bags, and they seemed to have a lot of people like me who would refuse to stop (legally they can't force you to stop, nor can they force you to show them whats in your bag.). I dunno if it's those factors, someone lawyer hit them upside the heads, or something else. I like to think it was people actually getting pissed off enough about it and making a difference though.
I wish people would stand up to places like walmart too.. Go in, ask for a game, and when they walk it up instead of giving it to you just walk out.
In my experience, Best Buy (or at least the local Best Buy) has on average as good if not better prices on games than just about every where else. It might be the amount of competition they have here, but it's not uncommon to find a new release marked $5 or $10 below the MSRP that every other store follows. Walmart does have some games marked $1 or $2 cheaper, but I don't like being treated like a criminal so it's worth the extra $1 or $2 every so often to not shop there.
I'm not affiliated with Best buy or anything, so if you can find me a place that sells cheaper feel free to let me know!
Back to the topic at hand... The gamer gift certificates at bestbuy are great gifts for people like me.. It's like saying "hey, I know you love video games and I really wanted to get you one, but I have no clue which one of those 1000 different games on the shelf you would like best"
That being said, some of the absolute best games I've ever played I might never have played if it wasn't for a "clueless" relative giving them to me as a gift.
Unfortunately I run into numerous companies that decide I have to navigate their flash filled webpage in order to get to their support page, and yes, had I known that to begin with I would have thought twice about buying their products.
I'm an avid gamer and I like to watch the occasional movie as well, lo and behold it seems if I want to get info about a game or movie I have to navigate their stupid flash pages.
God forbid I'd want to go out to see a movie and decide to check listings online, the website for the local theatres (all own by one company btw, so only once place to check) doesn't work correctly without flash.
Thats just the sites that came to mind while reading your post. Sad part is, almost none of these cases (with the odd exception of the occasional game or movie site, though the same exceptions tend to be the ones with html only versions as well) are an "enhanced experience" because of flash, most often they are worse.
Just to play symantics a bit, no, I do not want flash for any of this, however I need flash to access these resources until someone takes a hammer to the heads of those web developers that think flash is the answer to everything. On second thought, I get the feeling a lot of them took a hammer to the head already...
There is nothing stopping someone from creating such a program. Which is sorta my point... there is no technological hurdle to overcome as people before me were trying to say.. The only limiting factor is how many 10 letter words you can think of/find and enter into the database for your program.
If you provided a file containing a list of all the 10 letter words, this is exactly the type of problem you'd give someone as part of a test for a beginners programming class...
Maybe will we see emerging something like a Acrostic@Home grid computing program?
Or someone will take 5 seconds to realize that the slowest part would be putting a dictionary onto a computer, and with that step already completed a single computer could do all the possible permutations in a very short ammount of time... no grid computing needed.
Both I and various family members have had quite a few issues with rebates from certain companies. On numerous occasions they'll fail to have sent a rebate for numerous months, but as soon as you call the bluff by sending a letter in to them they send out the rebate with no delay.
Sure, if it was a few occasions spread throughout a group of people I'd chalk it up to getting lost in the surely hectic amount of rebates they receive.. but when it happens to 3 or 4 people at once on the same rebate, and it repeatidly happens from the same company, you have to be suspicious.
For parents that care to be more nuanced and/or involved, there are strategy guides in every game store that present the content of games in great detail. And there's also gamefaqs.com, which is free and convenient. Parents don't have to be gamers to avoid being totally oblivious. Now, I certainly don't expect every parent to be this savvy from the get-go. But the parents who claim to give a shit could educate themselves with what I think is a reasonable amount of time and effort.
Indeed, and you even forgot the two easiest ways to get a little more involved and finding exactly what the "objectionable content" is... Not only do all games have the ESRB rating on the front, but on the back is the list of reasons why that rating was given. And lets not forget one of the most effective ways to figure out a games content... Ask. Any good store that sells a significant number of video games should have someone who can give you an idea of the content of a specific game. If a store doesn't have someone who can, then it is not a good place to shop for video games.
You'd think this kind of stuff would be common sense, but it seems its up to us to educate people on this stuff.
Isn't an ISO technically just a raw binary dump of the CD contents, which just happens to usually include an ISO 9660 file system?
No, an.iso image is technically just an image of an ISO 9660 filesystem. Use of the term.iso to refer to raw binary dumps of CDs or any other binary images that are not strictly an iso 9660 filesystem are technically incorrect.
Plus, you dont have to pay taxes on the income from the garage sale (since there is no income).
You don't have to pay taxes on a garage sale anyways. Forgive me for not remembering the exact numbers off the top of my head, but you are allowed to hold a (or IIRC up to 2) garage sale a year tax free, though there is limit on the length (in the neighborhood of 3 days) and I believe must be at least a certain length of time apart as well.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's defragment tools can not defragment the MFT or other critical system files. A number of third party defragmentation tools can, however, but they generally require doing this defragmentation offline. Raxco PerfectDisk, O&O defrag and Executive Diskeeper are the three that I know have this capability.
The saddest part about that is starting with windows 2000 the defrag utility included with windows has been a cutdown version of Diskeeper... This is the only instance I can think of where I wish MS would just buy out the company (or at least all the rights to diskeeper) and distribute the full diskeeper with windows. It's not like they are strangers to the whole "buy out the company and to take their products" game.
Yeah, not to mention the "Hystorically" bit... It's one of the newest distros around, for chrissakes!
I think they mean that historically it was more stable than it is now, since they have been regularly causing huge issues by breaking packages, configs, and the layout in the updates.
I've had to completely reinstall due to cumulative breakage caused solely by bad decisions made by the gentoo devs, and I now regret staying with gentoo at the time because of the massive repairs I've had to due, such as the numerous hours it took to get apache working correctly again because they decided they didn't like how they had the config files setup.
oh no... you bought into the BS The record co is not the copyright holder usually. They're just a licensee... check a copyright notice on a CD. Says something like "Copyright 2005 Band Name here. Published by very big music corporation".
Funny thing... You are wrong. I decided to be nice and take you up on your challenge, and every CD I checked was marked as copyrights being owned by the record label. Though on a few it wasn't easy to find.
Of course, if you've paid any attention to the bitching artists have been doing for years over how the labels treat their music you wouldn't have these dilusions that most signed bands still own the copyrights to their music, because it simply isn't so.
Oh, but then you can just take the HD out and stick it in another machine, and *POOF* there goes your completely secure machine.
Padlock.
You didn't think that goofy deal with the whole in it on the back of the case was just decoration did you?
And yes yes, before you get into tails of bolt cutters let just be clear on something, if someone really wants into a system, they can get in to it. The whole idea is to make it more expensive to the person trying to break in than it's worth but putting as many road blocks as possible.
..and Nintendo tends to ignore the fun for mature audiences only market, they also don't cater to the one-device-for-games-and-multimedia-on-the-go market either.
Sure, there is plenty of overlap, but they aren't going after the same core market.
Their solitaire during class was supporting social promotion (grade inflation, etc.).
No, what promotes social promotion is homework based grades and a lack of testing. If social promotion bothers you then bitch at your teacher to base grades off of tests and grade on a curve.
Then if these people on laptops really are just fucking around they'll fail the class and make things a bit easier for everyone else due to the curve, but if they are like me they'll pass the tests and not have to do the piles of homework designed for those that learn slowly.
Either way, grades will become a measure of whether you understand the material rather than whether you can afford to pay someone who understand the material to do your homework for you.
Guess what, there are more than a few of us out there that only need to listen to part of a lecture to learn whats going on, but because of all the dumbasses out there I have to waste the time I paid for sitting and waiting for the teacher to finish hand feeding everyone else before I can move on or leave.
Would you rather I got up and left in the middle of a lecture? I think not, and in most environments they wouldn't be too happy to let you do so on a regular basis either.
The real problem is, if someone on a laptop is distracting you then maybe you should start fucking pay attention instead of looking over someone else's shoulder to see what they are doing. They aren't distracting you, you are looking for a distraction as an excuse.
So fuck you, if I want to play solitare while the teacher is hand feeding the dumbasses, I'll play solitare while the teacher is hand feeding the dumbasses. Quit looking over my shoulder and do your own damn work and we'll both be better off.
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You say that like that wording was unintentional! What fun is it to comment about the porn industry unless you include a half dozen or more ways to twist the words into being something perverted? None I say!
Admit it, which ever group is the most expiremental and fastest to move and use a new media the most tends to get to choose which direction it goes, and I don't think anyone would argue against the porn industry being the fastest moving and most experimental.
There seemed to be a lot of people who quite vocally stopped shopping there because of them checking their bags, and they seemed to have a lot of people like me who would refuse to stop (legally they can't force you to stop, nor can they force you to show them whats in your bag.). I dunno if it's those factors, someone lawyer hit them upside the heads, or something else. I like to think it was people actually getting pissed off enough about it and making a difference though.
I wish people would stand up to places like walmart too.. Go in, ask for a game, and when they walk it up instead of giving it to you just walk out.
I'm not affiliated with Best buy or anything, so if you can find me a place that sells cheaper feel free to let me know!
Back to the topic at hand... The gamer gift certificates at bestbuy are great gifts for people like me.. It's like saying "hey, I know you love video games and I really wanted to get you one, but I have no clue which one of those 1000 different games on the shelf you would like best"
That being said, some of the absolute best games I've ever played I might never have played if it wasn't for a "clueless" relative giving them to me as a gift.
I'm an avid gamer and I like to watch the occasional movie as well, lo and behold it seems if I want to get info about a game or movie I have to navigate their stupid flash pages.
God forbid I'd want to go out to see a movie and decide to check listings online, the website for the local theatres (all own by one company btw, so only once place to check) doesn't work correctly without flash.
Thats just the sites that came to mind while reading your post. Sad part is, almost none of these cases (with the odd exception of the occasional game or movie site, though the same exceptions tend to be the ones with html only versions as well) are an "enhanced experience" because of flash, most often they are worse.
Just to play symantics a bit, no, I do not want flash for any of this, however I need flash to access these resources until someone takes a hammer to the heads of those web developers that think flash is the answer to everything. On second thought, I get the feeling a lot of them took a hammer to the head already...
If you provided a file containing a list of all the 10 letter words, this is exactly the type of problem you'd give someone as part of a test for a beginners programming class...
Or someone will take 5 seconds to realize that the slowest part would be putting a dictionary onto a computer, and with that step already completed a single computer could do all the possible permutations in a very short ammount of time... no grid computing needed.
Sure, if it was a few occasions spread throughout a group of people I'd chalk it up to getting lost in the surely hectic amount of rebates they receive.. but when it happens to 3 or 4 people at once on the same rebate, and it repeatidly happens from the same company, you have to be suspicious.
Indeed, and you even forgot the two easiest ways to get a little more involved and finding exactly what the "objectionable content" is... Not only do all games have the ESRB rating on the front, but on the back is the list of reasons why that rating was given. And lets not forget one of the most effective ways to figure out a games content... Ask. Any good store that sells a significant number of video games should have someone who can give you an idea of the content of a specific game. If a store doesn't have someone who can, then it is not a good place to shop for video games.
You'd think this kind of stuff would be common sense, but it seems its up to us to educate people on this stuff.
Betas in general take so long because the first 90% of a project takes 10% of the time, and the last 10% takes 90% of the time...
No, an .iso image is technically just an image of an ISO 9660 filesystem. Use of the term .iso to refer to raw binary dumps of CDs or any other binary images that are not strictly an iso 9660 filesystem are technically incorrect.
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You don't have to pay taxes on a garage sale anyways. Forgive me for not remembering the exact numbers off the top of my head, but you are allowed to hold a (or IIRC up to 2) garage sale a year tax free, though there is limit on the length (in the neighborhood of 3 days) and I believe must be at least a certain length of time apart as well.
Plants (including trees) do move, however it is quite slowly.
The saddest part about that is starting with windows 2000 the defrag utility included with windows has been a cutdown version of Diskeeper... This is the only instance I can think of where I wish MS would just buy out the company (or at least all the rights to diskeeper) and distribute the full diskeeper with windows. It's not like they are strangers to the whole "buy out the company and to take their products" game.
I think they mean that historically it was more stable than it is now, since they have been regularly causing huge issues by breaking packages, configs, and the layout in the updates.
I've had to completely reinstall due to cumulative breakage caused solely by bad decisions made by the gentoo devs, and I now regret staying with gentoo at the time because of the massive repairs I've had to due, such as the numerous hours it took to get apache working correctly again because they decided they didn't like how they had the config files setup.
Funny thing... You are wrong. I decided to be nice and take you up on your challenge, and every CD I checked was marked as copyrights being owned by the record label. Though on a few it wasn't easy to find.
Of course, if you've paid any attention to the bitching artists have been doing for years over how the labels treat their music you wouldn't have these dilusions that most signed bands still own the copyrights to their music, because it simply isn't so.
"Cheap" is on the opposite end of the spectrum from how I'd describe current alkalines.
Padlock.
You didn't think that goofy deal with the whole in it on the back of the case was just decoration did you?
And yes yes, before you get into tails of bolt cutters let just be clear on something, if someone really wants into a system, they can get in to it. The whole idea is to make it more expensive to the person trying to break in than it's worth but putting as many road blocks as possible.
Sure, there is plenty of overlap, but they aren't going after the same core market.
Think of it like a corvette and a honda...
I might suggest that, but I don't want a sudden string of viruses to attack my computer...
I suppose it depends how many of the answers are in the back of the book (or just copying verbatim out of the book)...
No, what promotes social promotion is homework based grades and a lack of testing. If social promotion bothers you then bitch at your teacher to base grades off of tests and grade on a curve.
Then if these people on laptops really are just fucking around they'll fail the class and make things a bit easier for everyone else due to the curve, but if they are like me they'll pass the tests and not have to do the piles of homework designed for those that learn slowly.
Either way, grades will become a measure of whether you understand the material rather than whether you can afford to pay someone who understand the material to do your homework for you.
Would you rather I got up and left in the middle of a lecture? I think not, and in most environments they wouldn't be too happy to let you do so on a regular basis either.
The real problem is, if someone on a laptop is distracting you then maybe you should start fucking pay attention instead of looking over someone else's shoulder to see what they are doing. They aren't distracting you, you are looking for a distraction as an excuse.
So fuck you, if I want to play solitare while the teacher is hand feeding the dumbasses, I'll play solitare while the teacher is hand feeding the dumbasses. Quit looking over my shoulder and do your own damn work and we'll both be better off.
And life insurance.