So, any topic that shows up on 'idle' is banned from appearing on the front page?
This is a story that clearly belongs in idle. It is also, in one dudes opinion, from the top of that pile. So if the category exists, does the cream of it not belong on the front page?
This is the case where a $222,000 verdict was awarded for downloading 24 songs
RTFA. RIAA downloaded 24 songs from her.
Not strictly true. Depends what kind of logs the filesharing program kept, or her ISP.
And you are giving the RIAA the logs from your computer? Her ISP is not logging her file sharing activities.
I like to call it "innocent until proven guilty", but apparently, this doesn't apply to civil cases.
No, it does not. You are correct. One example of Oranthal, who was found innocent of double murder in a criminal trial, but guilty in a civil trial. At a civil trial the burden is not on the prosecutor to prove guilt. The court tries to determine what the most likely thing to happen was, then applies what they feel are the appropriate damages.
I have a question: am I alone here in thinking that I actually like Blockbusters(BB) new policy? Now, let's make things clear, I am from the club that thinks that BB is evil. I don't like how they use their corporate clout to force censorship, they are over priced, and they are abusive to their underpaid staff.
Whrn I saw their new ad campaign that said you could keep your movie for an extra "day or two", immediately I thought the worst. I figured that on day three they would charge you for all three days missed and continue to abuse you. When I read the deal (look it up,I am not gonna explain it here) I thought it was extremely fair.
Lets be clear, you are still renting something, and you are expected to return it. If you do not, they do have to restock it. They may have to buy a new copy. It will require paperwork. These things take an employees time, who is being paid money.
I use Zip, so I am still not about to switch, but if I really want to see something, or I need to rent a movie for whatever reason, I would consider using BB. I would like know that if I like the movie, I can just keep it, and I can return it at my leisure without having to worry about things. A week is a long time people. A month is even longer, and an extra $1.75 for those 3 weeks isn't that mutch.
I believe I know the answer to this question. Things are going to go back to the way TV started out. Advertisers are going to directly sponser programs. We have already seen the start of this in reality programs such as Survivor, where they give away cars (advertising) in challenges, and Pringles or whatever as rewards.
What I mean here goes far beyond product placement. What you are going to see is "Joey, brought to you by Chevy" or whatever. As far as I can tell, the TV studios don't have much of a reason to care about the cable compnies. As long as they are still providing them the shows, they will continue to show them.
But, with the show directly sponsered, embedded ads, and so forth, the studios can create a show in which if you want to see the show, you wll see the Ads. It will not matter how the viewer gets the show. This will allow them to embrace the internet as a way of getting the shows to their viewers
pk
Online play has created the poker explosion
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Geeks Playing Poker?
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Being able to play poker on the internet has really caused this explosion in popularity. I have played poker all of my life, but in reality, it is usually hard to find a poker game. With the internet, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there is a game playing at your budget and skill level.
This has changed everything. You can practice for little or no money (I know sites that play 1c/2c games). There are sattelite games, so for only a couple dollars, you can have a chance to win a trip and entry in to a million dollar tournament. It has essentially made the game accessable to the masses.
This is great for us geeks, because the masses arn't very good at math and logic. Online play is all a math game. Once you get pot odds and the probabilities down, you are better than the average player. If you can manage a little patience, it becomes very easy to be a positive player.
And I'll be honest with you, It is rare that I find a video game that is as engaging as poker. It's multiplayer, and winning actually matters, so everyone is trying there best.
The non-market ways are to: play favorites, punish disliked nurses, or do it randomly.
There is at least one more way to assign the extra shifts. How they do it around here (unionized nurses, Canada) is very simple. Staffing starts at the most senior nurse, calls them and asks if they want the shift. If they say no, they go on to the next person. If they do not answer the phone, they leave a message and go on to the next person. If you get a message about a shift, you can call back and if they haven't filled it yet, it is yours. Seems to work fine.
In this case, the nurses are getting paid overtime (time and a half or double) for the hours. I guess the only time it really fails is if the go through every nurse they have and no one will take the shift, but this is no different than if no nurse took the shift at the maximum.
I disagree. The series may have ended in a draw because of one move, but it certainly wasn't that one. The most significant move in the game 32...Rg7 in game 2 by Kasparov.
Kasparov was trying to hold on for a draw in this game, while playing the disadvantaged black. He screwed one move and the computer pounced on him. Had he managed a draw in that game, he would have had an overall winning record for the series.
Just for those of you who still don't know, lemmings don't go around jumping off cliffs and committing suicide. You can read all the details at snopes. Basically, the footage was staged.
That aside, what's done is done, I want to see the White Wilderness episode with the lemming herding. I wonder if filming it was something like heding cats?
Here in Canada, a girl who got drunk in an office party - thanks to the boss, with an open bar - drove her car and had an accident.
This is a little off-topic, but since you brought it up, you should get the details correct.
This case stinks (and is one of Canada's worst civil lawsuits in my opinion) because the lady drank at the party and was offered a drice home, cab fare, and a hotel room to stay in. She refused all three and instead went to a bar to drink further. She then drove home well after the party ended. Both her employer and the bar were found liable (some percentage each)
This is not only an example of someone taking responsiblity for there own actions, but a travesty that the courts agreed it was not her fault.
Did anyone take into account that the mother was irresponsible enough to get pregnant at approximately 17 years old and that she's just not a responsible adult yet? I'm guessing no one has brought that up. There are certainly deeper issues than Everquest addiction here....
The mother was 31 or so when she had the kid. She was 35, it was her husband who was 21. Age shouldn't be a factor on her maturity to have a child.
All right, these are probably about the funniest error messages I have ever seen from a compiler. And they do seem to give the nature of the problem in most cases. BUT, there is one...
"Huh ?"
That is going a bit far. Humour is good and all, but that doesn't seem like very much information to figure out what is wrong with your program.
If you read the quotes below the pictures, you will find he has both the XBox and a GameCube. He has all the current systems hooked up to his TV, but "though I have to admit... I'm "retro" and rarely find a new title worth playing, let alone collecting."
Hmm... if you had RTFA you may have caught this quote. "The rest of the storage area. My wife insists that this room is to be used for laundry" (empahasis on wife taken from the original article). It seems that the reason he has no girlfriend very little to do with his video game addiction and very much to do with his being married.
OK, there is no rule in blackjack that says card counting isn't allowed.
However, in Vegas they can bar you from playing in their casino for any reason. This is part of the gaming laws in Nevada. They don't need a good reason, and in there mind card counting is a fine reason. For the record, they will often let a suspected card counter stay besause most of them just think they know what they are doing but screw up enough that the odds arn't turned in their favour.
When you move on to Atlantic City, the rules there state that casino games must be games of chance. If card counting exists, and it can affect the odds, then blackjack would no longer be a game of chance. For this reason, they are very careful with card counters and want to ensure that a case involving them never goes to court. They won't kick card counters out of the casino, but what they will do is make the card counters play miserable (and ineffective) by doing things like shuffling after every hand.
I am not sure about other the rules in other places
"Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years" in rich countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at Cambridge University. (This is, of course, a great prediction to make because none of us will be around in 2100 to mock him if he's wrong.)
Perhaps we can save the article for our kids. That way they will be around to mock him.
I mean, come on - the life expectancy is gonna go up by over 6000% in the next 100 years. Someone neads to mock this guy.
If you read a little more, you will find that the development languages initially supported (before you hack it a little further) are C and Assembly, as well as their own version of Basic. IF you are doing C or assembly, you develop on your PC. With Basic, you develop right on the maching with a keyboard.
I just wish they wouldn't blast the commercials out even louder than the music.
They don't turn the commercials louder, it is actually a very similar thing that is happening with the music. This applies to TV commercials as well.
When you listen to a song or watch a show, if you were to watch the levels of the different frequencies, you would find that only a few of them are high at any one time. With commercials they go out of there way to ensure that as many of them as possible are near the top. This creates the effect of sounding louder with out the volume actually being any higher.
I had a nintendo that a bunch of us that lived together all pooled our games together for. We had scores of them, and surprisingly enough, the nintendo got a lot of play time (even though there were many newer systems there).
The thing did deteriorate but still works. To get a game working now requires my favorite technique I have seen. After putting the first cartidge in and pressing it down, you cram a second cartidge into the slot. Works just about every time. It is fairly easy to figure out why this works, but the general humour of having to stick 2 games into the system to make it work puts a smile on my face.
This means means you would be rolling 2 attacking and 2 defending dice
No it doesn't. It means you would be rolling three attacking dice and 2 defending dice. The extra attacker die is what gives the attacker an advantage.
so if the attacker rolls double 6 you can roll just 1 defence die, and only lose 1 army (unless you get a 6).
Read the rules again. Both players must determine how many dice they are going to roll before either player rolls. You can't pick after you have seen your opponents outcome.
The reason they say attacker rolls first is only to end the "you roll first", "No, you roll first" argument.
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the crew of the Challenger disaster
If you are that involved in a project that failed in such a spectacular fasion, I suspect you are not putting anything on your resume.
A current C.V. is one of the least of your new set of problems.
PK
Yes, as far as I knew that is what it is called.
What I have learned so far from this article is:
What falls in the what else is new category:
PK
This is a story that clearly belongs in idle. It is also, in one dudes opinion, from the top of that pile. So if the category exists, does the cream of it not belong on the front page?
PK
This is the case where a $222,000 verdict was awarded for downloading 24 songs
RTFA. RIAA downloaded 24 songs from her.
Not strictly true. Depends what kind of logs the filesharing program kept, or her ISP.
And you are giving the RIAA the logs from your computer? Her ISP is not logging her file sharing activities.
I like to call it "innocent until proven guilty", but apparently, this doesn't apply to civil cases.
No, it does not. You are correct. One example of Oranthal, who was found innocent of double murder in a criminal trial, but guilty in a civil trial. At a civil trial the burden is not on the prosecutor to prove guilt. The court tries to determine what the most likely thing to happen was, then applies what they feel are the appropriate damages.
I have a question: am I alone here in thinking that I actually like Blockbusters(BB) new policy? Now, let's make things clear, I am from the club that thinks that BB is evil. I don't like how they use their corporate clout to force censorship, they are over priced, and they are abusive to their underpaid staff.
Whrn I saw their new ad campaign that said you could keep your movie for an extra "day or two", immediately I thought the worst. I figured that on day three they would charge you for all three days missed and continue to abuse you. When I read the deal (look it up,I am not gonna explain it here) I thought it was extremely fair.
Lets be clear, you are still renting something, and you are expected to return it. If you do not, they do have to restock it. They may have to buy a new copy. It will require paperwork. These things take an employees time, who is being paid money.
I use Zip, so I am still not about to switch, but if I really want to see something, or I need to rent a movie for whatever reason, I would consider using BB. I would like know that if I like the movie, I can just keep it, and I can return it at my leisure without having to worry about things. A week is a long time people. A month is even longer, and an extra $1.75 for those 3 weeks isn't that mutch.
pk
I believe I know the answer to this question. Things are going to go back to the way TV started out. Advertisers are going to directly sponser programs. We have already seen the start of this in reality programs such as Survivor, where they give away cars (advertising) in challenges, and Pringles or whatever as rewards.
What I mean here goes far beyond product placement. What you are going to see is "Joey, brought to you by Chevy" or whatever. As far as I can tell, the TV studios don't have much of a reason to care about the cable compnies. As long as they are still providing them the shows, they will continue to show them.
But, with the show directly sponsered, embedded ads, and so forth, the studios can create a show in which if you want to see the show, you wll see the Ads. It will not matter how the viewer gets the show. This will allow them to embrace the internet as a way of getting the shows to their viewers
pk
This has changed everything. You can practice for little or no money (I know sites that play 1c/2c games). There are sattelite games, so for only a couple dollars, you can have a chance to win a trip and entry in to a million dollar tournament. It has essentially made the game accessable to the masses.
This is great for us geeks, because the masses arn't very good at math and logic. Online play is all a math game. Once you get pot odds and the probabilities down, you are better than the average player. If you can manage a little patience, it becomes very easy to be a positive player.
And I'll be honest with you, It is rare that I find a video game that is as engaging as poker. It's multiplayer, and winning actually matters, so everyone is trying there best.
PK
If you read the summary,
And that's not all: We're supposed to get candidates' rebuttals on or about October 17
Me thinks that the rebuttal is coming. This is about the only way to do it when you are responding in print.
pk
Ever want to slap someone for saying fack, rather than fax?
pk
There is at least one more way to assign the extra shifts. How they do it around here (unionized nurses, Canada) is very simple. Staffing starts at the most senior nurse, calls them and asks if they want the shift. If they say no, they go on to the next person. If they do not answer the phone, they leave a message and go on to the next person. If you get a message about a shift, you can call back and if they haven't filled it yet, it is yours. Seems to work fine.
In this case, the nurses are getting paid overtime (time and a half or double) for the hours. I guess the only time it really fails is if the go through every nurse they have and no one will take the shift, but this is no different than if no nurse took the shift at the maximum.
PK
Kasparov was trying to hold on for a draw in this game, while playing the disadvantaged black. He screwed one move and the computer pounced on him. Had he managed a draw in that game, he would have had an overall winning record for the series.
pk
That aside, what's done is done, I want to see the White Wilderness episode with the lemming herding. I wonder if filming it was something like heding cats?
pk
This is a little off-topic, but since you brought it up, you should get the details correct. This case stinks (and is one of Canada's worst civil lawsuits in my opinion) because the lady drank at the party and was offered a drice home, cab fare, and a hotel room to stay in. She refused all three and instead went to a bar to drink further. She then drove home well after the party ended. Both her employer and the bar were found liable (some percentage each)
This is not only an example of someone taking responsiblity for there own actions, but a travesty that the courts agreed it was not her fault.
pk
The mother was 31 or so when she had the kid. She was 35, it was her husband who was 21. Age shouldn't be a factor on her maturity to have a child.
pk
"Huh ?"
That is going a bit far. Humour is good and all, but that doesn't seem like very much information to figure out what is wrong with your program.
pk
PK
Hmm... if you had RTFA you may have caught this quote. "The rest of the storage area. My wife insists that this room is to be used for laundry" (empahasis on wife taken from the original article). It seems that the reason he has no girlfriend very little to do with his video game addiction and very much to do with his being married.
PK
PK
However, in Vegas they can bar you from playing in their casino for any reason. This is part of the gaming laws in Nevada. They don't need a good reason, and in there mind card counting is a fine reason. For the record, they will often let a suspected card counter stay besause most of them just think they know what they are doing but screw up enough that the odds arn't turned in their favour.
When you move on to Atlantic City, the rules there state that casino games must be games of chance. If card counting exists, and it can affect the odds, then blackjack would no longer be a game of chance. For this reason, they are very careful with card counters and want to ensure that a case involving them never goes to court. They won't kick card counters out of the casino, but what they will do is make the card counters play miserable (and ineffective) by doing things like shuffling after every hand.
I am not sure about other the rules in other places
PK
I mean, come on - the life expectancy is gonna go up by over 6000% in the next 100 years. Someone neads to mock this guy.
PK
PK
They don't turn the commercials louder, it is actually a very similar thing that is happening with the music. This applies to TV commercials as well.
When you listen to a song or watch a show, if you were to watch the levels of the different frequencies, you would find that only a few of them are high at any one time. With commercials they go out of there way to ensure that as many of them as possible are near the top. This creates the effect of sounding louder with out the volume actually being any higher.
pk
The thing did deteriorate but still works. To get a game working now requires my favorite technique I have seen. After putting the first cartidge in and pressing it down, you cram a second cartidge into the slot. Works just about every time. It is fairly easy to figure out why this works, but the general humour of having to stick 2 games into the system to make it work puts a smile on my face.
PK
No it doesn't. It means you would be rolling three attacking dice and 2 defending dice. The extra attacker die is what gives the attacker an advantage.
PK
Read the rules again. Both players must determine how many dice they are going to roll before either player rolls. You can't pick after you have seen your opponents outcome.
The reason they say attacker rolls first is only to end the "you roll first", "No, you roll first" argument.
pk