I agree that this sucks. I can share that I am running IOS 10.3.3, and have Overcast 3.1.8 running on it. This may be an artifact of the App Store only supporting a single named version? I would try contacting the developer to see if there is a way to get the previous version: https://overcast.fm/contact
In one of the first 'gosh-wow' science shows I remember watching, The Twenty-First Century, the host, Walter Cronkite, was allowed to drive a prototype car controlled with a joystick. It was actually installed on a lap pad! Both steering and acceleration were controlled with the joystick. Walter got it up to thirty or so, then tried to take a turn. He ripped a magnificent donut, and quickly decelerated. The auto engineer assured him that it was safe with practice!
In ST:TOS, the Enterprise would often be "three weeks out" from the starbase of the week. It had a crew of about 1,000.
The majority of your comment is insightful and accurate in so far as it maps to reality. I just had to nitpick on the one fictional element I know about. The crew complement of the original series Enterprise was around 400. In fact, in the episode "A Piece of the Action", Kirk explicitly says, "There are over 400 guys up there."
Unsurprisingly, Dave has been made aware of this joke, and has already put up a response. The sidebar listing many quotes praising his and Adam's contribution each of which predates the patent application date is pretty funny.
When I suggested that I spent some spare time exploring and extrapolating FizzBuzz for fun (and testing!!! my solutions), I got called incompetent because it was an "uninteresting" problem.
I'm with you. Over on Stack Overflow, one of the launch topics was FizzBuzz, and the veritable jungle of solutions in everything from assembly to Ook! was a joy to behold (and learn from).
You can play for free on a 'Doubloon Ocean', with restricted rank, limited puzzles and less fancy clothes. To get more, they suggest paying to play on a 'Subscription Ocean': costs.
Most sites I checked say it is a function of cell chemistry and temperature, but this is also a significant change in geometry, so I'd still want to see 'shelf-life' measured.
be prepared for a massive fissure in the Earth's crust that can only be sealed by a 1,000,000 megaton nuclear detonation. Oops, somebody's gonna have to sue Rockne S. O'Bannon, or at least the writers of the episodes relating this incident. It's been done before.
You're overlooking their mindset. Fairplay (iTunes Music Store DRM) lets you play your purchase on five computers! And an unlimited number of iPods. Or you can play them on your AppleTV. Or... Ooh! Ooh! You can burn them to a CD, where they are no longer DRM controlled. Never mind that original CDs can be ripped (synonymous with 'stolen' according to RIAA propaganda) and then shared around as well.
Oh, and now you can pay $0.30 more per song (from selected labels/artists) and not have any DRM at all.
Voila! iTunes 'facilitates' piracy, in much the same way that ripping your purchased CD is 'theft'.
I know you meant to imply your only alternative would be illegally downloading the show, but you have plenty of options if you really must watch Heroes.
He probably did, and I agree with you that there are plenty of legal avenues besides iTunes M[edia] Store.
If however you are opposed to variable pricing, and would like to see online markets for dramas expand beyond iMS, instead of simply migrating to a different walled garden, then this current pissing contest is disappointing at best. So maybe his implied action was:
"Guess what my only alternative will be if you pull it from iTunes? Watch your competitors programs on iTunes, instead."
What kind of (office) paper do you use? I know that I have to be careful when printing out technical articles from Europe/GB that they do not run off the end of the page. This is because many of them are formatted for A4 paper, which is 210mm × 297mm (8.3" × 11.7"), narrower than American letter size, but longer by 0.7 inches. So despite the odd dimension, if you use A4, you use a metric standard, ISO 216.
The psychedelic equivalent of identity-obscuring shadows/pixellation and voice distortion for whistleblowers on television news magazines, the scramble suit was introduced by Philip K. Dick in his novel "A Scanner Darkly". Give it a few years before somebody does this for Halloween, now...
barely flashing anything that resembles a photo ID card with a splash of red on it is sufficient to get in.
Decades ago I worked at NASA Lewis Research Center. Access to the campus was along a long road with toll-gate controlled from a small guardhouse. The gate was always across the road, but the guards would raise it if someone flashed a badge, so the driver wouldn't have to come to a complete halt.
This convenience was, at least temporarily, suspended after various engineers began playfully flashing anything vaguely shaped like the requisite security badge. I heard of people holding up cigarette packs, driver's licenses and the like. I guess what finally peeved the guards enough to complain was when somebody held up a pack of playing cards.;^)~
But don't we already pay in excess of $50 per month on average for cable tv and still have to watch ads?
The difference is, networks and show production companies are usually not reimbursed by cable distributors who package up their programming. If they want to produce those shows you pay the cable company to watch, they gotta get the revenue somewhere. Commercials, product placement, sponsorship...
Presumably, the money you pay for a game goes to the game 'owner', be it the company who produced it or the company who paid for the right to distribute it. So inserting ads into the game is insult-to-injury time.
Am I like the only person who hasn't modded his PS2 then?
No, you're not alone. Maybe it is an age thing. I'm 47, own an Xbox, a Gamecube and a PS2, have games for each of them, all bought at Fry's or Gamestop. I seldom pay full price, opting either for 'Greatest Hits' or used. But no pirating.
I do have a memory card/disc widget that lets me play non-US DVDs on my PS2. Usually these are Japanese films that don't get licensed in the US, or the new restored Shaw films. By some content producer's twisted logic, I suppose that makes me a pirate, even though I paid full price for those DVDs. Go figure.
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I agree that this sucks. I can share that I am running IOS 10.3.3, and have Overcast 3.1.8 running on it. This may be an artifact of the App Store only supporting a single named version? I would try contacting the developer to see if there is a way to get the previous version: https://overcast.fm/contact
Actually... Permanence kinda beat you to it.
In one of the first 'gosh-wow' science shows I remember watching, The Twenty-First Century, the host, Walter Cronkite, was allowed to drive a prototype car controlled with a joystick. It was actually installed on a lap pad! Both steering and acceleration were controlled with the joystick. Walter got it up to thirty or so, then tried to take a turn. He ripped a magnificent donut, and quickly decelerated. The auto engineer assured him that it was safe with practice!
In ST:TOS, the Enterprise would often be "three weeks out" from the starbase of the week. It had a crew of about 1,000.
The majority of your comment is insightful and accurate in so far as it maps to reality. I just had to nitpick on the one fictional element I know about. The crew complement of the original series Enterprise was around 400. In fact, in the episode "A Piece of the Action", Kirk explicitly says, "There are over 400 guys up there."
Unsurprisingly, Dave has been made aware of this joke, and has already put up a response. The sidebar listing many quotes praising his and Adam's contribution each of which predates the patent application date is pretty funny.
And if you want to get obscure, there was The 4400. Now there was good writing! ;^)~
Test your suspension of disbelief: Summer Glau was Jeffrey Combs' girlfriend...
What a Maroon!
When I suggested that I spent some spare time exploring and extrapolating FizzBuzz for fun (and testing!!! my solutions), I got called incompetent because it was an "uninteresting" problem.
I'm with you. Over on Stack Overflow, one of the launch topics was FizzBuzz, and the veritable jungle of solutions in everything from assembly to Ook! was a joy to behold (and learn from).
You can play for free on a 'Doubloon Ocean', with restricted rank, limited puzzles and less fancy clothes. To get more, they suggest paying to play on a 'Subscription Ocean': costs.
And one more:
4) What is the self-discharge rate?
Most sites I checked say it is a function of cell chemistry and temperature, but this is also a significant change in geometry, so I'd still want to see 'shelf-life' measured.
At least, that's what Jonathan Schwarz says in his weblog post on the topic.
You're overlooking their mindset. Fairplay (iTunes Music Store DRM) lets you play your purchase on five computers! And an unlimited number of iPods. Or you can play them on your AppleTV. Or... Ooh! Ooh! You can burn them to a CD, where they are no longer DRM controlled. Never mind that original CDs can be ripped (synonymous with 'stolen' according to RIAA propaganda) and then shared around as well.
Oh, and now you can pay $0.30 more per song (from selected labels/artists) and not have any DRM at all.
Voila! iTunes 'facilitates' piracy, in much the same way that ripping your purchased CD is 'theft'.
He probably did, and I agree with you that there are plenty of legal avenues besides iTunes M[edia] Store.
If however you are opposed to variable pricing, and would like to see online markets for dramas expand beyond iMS, instead of simply migrating to a different walled garden, then this current pissing contest is disappointing at best. So maybe his implied action was:
"Guess what my only alternative will be if you pull it from iTunes? Watch your competitors programs on iTunes, instead."
What kind of (office) paper do you use? I know that I have to be careful when printing out technical articles from Europe/GB that they do not run off the end of the page. This is because many of them are formatted for A4 paper, which is 210mm × 297mm (8.3" × 11.7"), narrower than American letter size, but longer by 0.7 inches. So despite the odd dimension, if you use A4, you use a metric standard, ISO 216.
The psychedelic equivalent of identity-obscuring shadows/pixellation and voice distortion for whistleblowers on television news magazines, the scramble suit was introduced by Philip K. Dick in his novel "A Scanner Darkly". Give it a few years before somebody does this for Halloween, now...
barely flashing anything that resembles a photo ID card with a splash of red on it is sufficient to get in.
Decades ago I worked at NASA Lewis Research Center. Access to the campus was along a long road with toll-gate controlled from a small guardhouse. The gate was always across the road, but the guards would raise it if someone flashed a badge, so the driver wouldn't have to come to a complete halt.
This convenience was, at least temporarily, suspended after various engineers began playfully flashing anything vaguely shaped like the requisite security badge. I heard of people holding up cigarette packs, driver's licenses and the like. I guess what finally peeved the guards enough to complain was when somebody held up a pack of playing cards. ;^)~
Oddly, the moderation choices include 'funny', 'flamebait' and 'troll', but not 'squick'.
And I do not offer repeat business to sleazeballs.
I know of a very close friend who lost out to a med-school... she found out later it was influenced by her tattoos.
In the context of medical school this may have been more about lack of judgement than odd appearance, as this and many other articles, illustrate.
Their unconstitutional extension of copyrights in perpetuity has made them about as evil of a corporation as I can think of today.
While I'm in your camp about the decay of the commons by copyright power grabs, I'm afraid it's not unconstitutional:
Official text of the decision upholding the copyright extension act, in PDF format.
But don't we already pay in excess of $50 per month on average for cable tv and still have to watch ads?
The difference is, networks and show production companies are usually not reimbursed by cable distributors who package up their programming. If they want to produce those shows you pay the cable company to watch, they gotta get the revenue somewhere. Commercials, product placement, sponsorship...
Presumably, the money you pay for a game goes to the game 'owner', be it the company who produced it or the company who paid for the right to distribute it. So inserting ads into the game is insult-to-injury time.
Since this post is empty, it is by definition a subset of every other post ever made, hence a duplicate.
Could there be a reason that gasoline is the energy storage mechanism of choice for vehicles?
Sure. Lots of historical infrastructure and technology investment, and only after that because of the obviously high energy density.
But also because it's -- relatively -- cheap. If you ignore the external costs. Which we do.
Am I like the only person who hasn't modded his PS2 then?
No, you're not alone. Maybe it is an age thing. I'm 47, own an Xbox, a Gamecube and a PS2, have games for each of them, all bought at Fry's or Gamestop. I seldom pay full price, opting either for 'Greatest Hits' or used. But no pirating.
I do have a memory card/disc widget that lets me play non-US DVDs on my PS2. Usually these are Japanese films that don't get licensed in the US, or the new restored Shaw films. By some content producer's twisted logic, I suppose that makes me a pirate, even though I paid full price for those DVDs. Go figure.