It's a fantastic comic. I read part2 as an adult (one of those thick bound volumes) and really enjoyed it. I recently gave it to my younger brother (21) and he devoured it - and he was never even that interested in History.
That has not been my experience. Typically songs I have gotten via alternate routes have much higher bitrates with a min of 256. I personally don't have the ears to notice a difference about 128 so I sample down to it to save diskspace.
freedom of speech has never existed for soldiers while in the military. If your superior officer tells you to shut up then you have to. No questions asked. Don't and you are failing to obey a direct and lawful order.
this new rule is really no different. Now they have just said you have to shut up until they tell you can talk before you even say anything.
if the family sues over it the case could very well move up through the court system and the law, eventually, would be declared unconstitutional if the provided definition is actually what the law says.
it would be great if everyone did get out of the way. Sadly, where I live people just keep on doing whatever they were doing regardless if there is an ambulance/cop/firetruck coming up with lights and sirens blaring.
Some few, such as myself, do get out of the way, but many others speed up, change lanes, stop in the middle of the lane, etc.. They are all confused. It is actually safer for them, around here, to just leave the lights and sirens off and deal with traffic - at least it is somewhat predictable.
What are these "people" you mention? I'm so old school I haven't even evolved to having "people" yet. I'm just secreting proteins in order to leave this message for future species to decode.
actually it is both. the "joystick" function was done moving just the cloth. The "rolling" stuff which let you move over large onscreen distances quickly was done moving the innards.
The joystick use is the one you would use in a FPS and I think, once you got used to the idea of moving your thumb around (and then releasing briefly) that it would probably be a pretty good interface.
Brazil is just a small country so it doesn't count! Fifth largest - please.
On a serious note I think most of the discussion of "other countries" has revolved around those European nations that were referenced in the article summary. Just because there are plenty of nations with "discriminatory currency" doesn't mean it is OK for the US to be in that boat.
I actually heard about this on NPR this morning and the entire issue surprised me. I had never considered the difficulties of the standard commerce system for the blind. Price tags aren't very accessible; particularly in grocery stores where it is just a sticker, cash registers and debit card readers aren't either since they don't provide an audible price total, and neither is our currency.
Fixing the money is a start to solving the problem but it definitely won't resolve it completely.
As a software developer who is constantly battling the accessibility issue with my companies creations (it is often hard to make things accessible) it is interesting to see these issues pop up in other parts of society. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
I'm curious, how, really, is a label any different than a folder? You can, if you choose, apply just one label to an email (thus it is in one "folder") Or are you speaking specifically about the ability to nest folders?
a week or three? I am not sure when DDR was created but I know it has been around for a few years already. They are just dancing on a platform. Is dance a whim that is going away? Some kids will pick this up as their preferred exercise and others will pick up squash. Why waste your energy not wanting kids to exercise on this machine?
They did say they are doing it and I assume, with as much anti-google venom as exists, that if they weren't they would have been called on the carpet for it by now in a very public manner. When I did <a href="http://images.google.cn/images?svnum=10&hl=z h-CN&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=tiana nmen+square+massacre&spell=1">this search</a> there is a little blurb in chinese that I don't understand that might be a notice saying the results are filtered. It stood out for me because the first two characters were in red on the google.cn page.
(I tried to post the little chinese blurb but the editor automatically converts them to ascii character codes that don't render in my browser)
If they aren't providing the notice then that pretty much ends my support for the decision to start google.cn and not just let google.com suffer via the great firewall.
your right, because by doing nothing about the obvious censoring of their results via google.com they would have taken the much higher ground. It is horrible that google actual tells people when their search results have been censored. How is what they are doing worse than doing nothing and just letting China wontonly censor the data with none the wiser as to what was censored.
do people just hate google to hate them? I mean, of all the things to jump on a company for - google.cn seems pretty damn small - and in fact I think it is misguided venom.
Google.com is still "available" to the mass of chinese users. As are all the chinese based search engines. Yet only google.cn tells people when their results have been filtered. That is a pretty big step toward making the information available because now people know there is something out there they aren't allowed to see.
So far, in every thread that I have ever seen that bashes Google for google.cn I have yet to see a valid solution to the problem. The only solution ever put forth is don't do business in China. However, by pulling out of China completely aren't they then selectively Censoring ALL DATA that google has accumulated from the Chinese people? Aren't they also then taking away the service that lets Chinese users know when they have been censored? If there is an actual solution to the China problem that is better than google.cn I'd love to hear it - because so far I haven't - from anyone.
Have you actually seen people play this game before? I don't know what mode I have witnessed the game in but on each occassion the people (guys and girls) are moving pretty vigorously. They jump, twist, turn, step, cross step, crouch, a slap the deck. Amazing amounts of energy are being expended by these kids.
I constantly see people complianing that kids don't get out and play enough - now some kids are actually playing - while also playing a video game - and people still complain. What gives? They aren't sitting on their asses but are sweating and exercising for hours playing this game. Its probably an incredible cardio-vascular workout. Games like this should be encouraged - not discouraged.
Have you ever seen kids playing on one of these? None of the music I have heard come out of one is well-known (unless you play the game I guess). Yet kids wait in line and play the game for hours.
Google isn't doing anything particularly bad in China - google.com is still available just like it always was to the Chinese - uncensored. Oh wait, it is censored just the user's don't know what parts are cut out. Hrm... So now google.cn is there and censored just like google.com except now the users actually know when something is being censored AND they have a more responsive experience.
So by giving Chinese users the same access to information they had before, with better performance, and furhter insight into the dataset returned Google is wrong?
please. Google would have been worse by doing nothing or pulling out of China all together. But, of course, nobody wants to actually think about the consequences of Google fully censoring themselves (shutting down in China) or of not taking a more proactive stance towards the problems faced by the govenmental censorship of google.com
Are you kidding me? Do you really believe this guy wasn't playing Solitaire on the clock? I don't.
Also, the guy who was fired was a state employee in Albany, not a NYC employee. Perhaps you should read the article instead of telling me to.
Bloomberg didn't fire the guy. However, his irresponsible behaviour in front of Bloomberg clearly contributed to his firing. He was let go as part of general cutbacks. Perhaps this wasn't the first time he was caught with a game running during business hours.
Just to be safe here I'm going to let you know I'm injecting sarcasm: Wait, I figured it out. I'm not sympathetic enough with the common working man. His ordeal of a deskjob is so difficult that he must spend time playing solitaire to get by. Sure he wasnt hired to play games - but that's the companies fault for not being understanding enough. : END sarcasm
gimme a break. The linked article was clearly written with a bias in favor of the "victimized" govt employee. It's popular to bash the politician and ignore the fact that this guy was being irresponsible. If this "was" his first offense, sure firing was harsh. But if not then firing was totally inline. Unless you just like to pretend that it was purely bad luck that Solitaire was on his screen at that moment. Pesonally, I don't.
why would it be unfair? The guy was playing solitair while on the company clock. He wasn't hired to play solitaire he was hired to work. I'd fire him too because as far as I am concerned he is robbing his employer. It is no different than the sales clerk who puts her hand in the till.
In the case of this guy who was playing when the mayor of NYC was in his office (or at least was playing just before the mayor arrived) he was both stealing time AND was incompetent at hiding it. He not only made himself look bad but his supervisor as well.
They aren't making this guys job suck - they are making him do his job. It's a big difference. My company wants us to make sure we get 40 hours of billable time in each week. We aren't supposed to be playing games, surfing for porn, or anything else not work related when we are on the clock. Yet everyone likes working there.
The real problem here is a lack of personal responsibility. I have read a variety of posts on here suggesting that the company is partly at fault for not removing the temptation. I didn't realize the company/government was hiring five year olds who need constant monitoring. Perhaps people need to take more responsibility for their inappropriate actions. Of course it's probably their parents fault for not loving them enough as kids or something. Nobody is ever to blame for their own behaviour anymore.
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It's a fantastic comic. I read part2 as an adult (one of those thick bound volumes) and really enjoyed it. I recently gave it to my younger brother (21) and he devoured it - and he was never even that interested in History.
That has not been my experience. Typically songs I have gotten via alternate routes have much higher bitrates with a min of 256. I personally don't have the ears to notice a difference about 128 so I sample down to it to save diskspace.
I am pretty sure his open square bracket was the beginning of some placeholder pseudo-payload like so:
[some hex characters]
but slashdot did it's thing and converted the URL but in the process broke it.
freedom of speech has never existed for soldiers while in the military. If your superior officer tells you to shut up then you have to. No questions asked. Don't and you are failing to obey a direct and lawful order.
this new rule is really no different. Now they have just said you have to shut up until they tell you can talk before you even say anything.
if the family sues over it the case could very well move up through the court system and the law, eventually, would be declared unconstitutional if the provided definition is actually what the law says.
it would be great if everyone did get out of the way. Sadly, where I live people just keep on doing whatever they were doing regardless if there is an ambulance/cop/firetruck coming up with lights and sirens blaring.
Some few, such as myself, do get out of the way, but many others speed up, change lanes, stop in the middle of the lane, etc.. They are all confused. It is actually safer for them, around here, to just leave the lights and sirens off and deal with traffic - at least it is somewhat predictable.
What are these "people" you mention? I'm so old school I haven't even evolved to having "people" yet. I'm just secreting proteins in order to leave this message for future species to decode.
actually it is both. the "joystick" function was done moving just the cloth. The "rolling" stuff which let you move over large onscreen distances quickly was done moving the innards.
The joystick use is the one you would use in a FPS and I think, once you got used to the idea of moving your thumb around (and then releasing briefly) that it would probably be a pretty good interface.
Brazil is just a small country so it doesn't count! Fifth largest - please.
On a serious note I think most of the discussion of "other countries" has revolved around those European nations that were referenced in the article summary. Just because there are plenty of nations with "discriminatory currency" doesn't mean it is OK for the US to be in that boat.
I actually heard about this on NPR this morning and the entire issue surprised me. I had never considered the difficulties of the standard commerce system for the blind. Price tags aren't very accessible; particularly in grocery stores where it is just a sticker, cash registers and debit card readers aren't either since they don't provide an audible price total, and neither is our currency.
Fixing the money is a start to solving the problem but it definitely won't resolve it completely.
As a software developer who is constantly battling the accessibility issue with my companies creations (it is often hard to make things accessible) it is interesting to see these issues pop up in other parts of society. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
If I had mod points you get one for that. What a crazy "feature" but thanks for the tip.
I'm curious, how, really, is a label any different than a folder? You can, if you choose, apply just one label to an email (thus it is in one "folder") Or are you speaking specifically about the ability to nest folders?
Your post clearly states: "Just like I pay $35 per year for my domain name" There is nothing about that comment that infers sarcasm or past tense.
perhaps if you communicated more clearly you wouldn't have had to respond to the guy who was offering you advice.
good question - but perhaps the energy is basically the same as required to create normal light bulbs?
That killzone video was sweet. I think i even have a copy of it on my machine. However, you can see it where it was posted by others at youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=g5ROVhHtN_Y&search=kill zon
those are some serious changes.. particularly that murder charge!
a week or three? I am not sure when DDR was created but I know it has been around for a few years already. They are just dancing on a platform. Is dance a whim that is going away? Some kids will pick this up as their preferred exercise and others will pick up squash. Why waste your energy not wanting kids to exercise on this machine?
no, I'm not sure since I can't read chinese.
z h-CN&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=tiana nmen+square+massacre&spell=1">this search</a> there is a little blurb in chinese that I don't understand that might be a notice saying the results are filtered. It stood out for me because the first two characters were in red on the google.cn page.
They did say they are doing it and I assume, with as much anti-google venom as exists, that if they weren't they would have been called on the carpet for it by now in a very public manner. When I did <a href="http://images.google.cn/images?svnum=10&hl=
(I tried to post the little chinese blurb but the editor automatically converts them to ascii character codes that don't render in my browser)
If they aren't providing the notice then that pretty much ends my support for the decision to start google.cn and not just let google.com suffer via the great firewall.
your right, because by doing nothing about the obvious censoring of their results via google.com they would have taken the much higher ground. It is horrible that google actual tells people when their search results have been censored. How is what they are doing worse than doing nothing and just letting China wontonly censor the data with none the wiser as to what was censored.
do people just hate google to hate them? I mean, of all the things to jump on a company for - google.cn seems pretty damn small - and in fact I think it is misguided venom.
Google.com is still "available" to the mass of chinese users. As are all the chinese based search engines. Yet only google.cn tells people when their results have been filtered. That is a pretty big step toward making the information available because now people know there is something out there they aren't allowed to see.
So far, in every thread that I have ever seen that bashes Google for google.cn I have yet to see a valid solution to the problem. The only solution ever put forth is don't do business in China. However, by pulling out of China completely aren't they then selectively Censoring ALL DATA that google has accumulated from the Chinese people? Aren't they also then taking away the service that lets Chinese users know when they have been censored? If there is an actual solution to the China problem that is better than google.cn I'd love to hear it - because so far I haven't - from anyone.
Have you actually seen people play this game before? I don't know what mode I have witnessed the game in but on each occassion the people (guys and girls) are moving pretty vigorously. They jump, twist, turn, step, cross step, crouch, a slap the deck. Amazing amounts of energy are being expended by these kids.
I constantly see people complianing that kids don't get out and play enough - now some kids are actually playing - while also playing a video game - and people still complain. What gives? They aren't sitting on their asses but are sweating and exercising for hours playing this game. Its probably an incredible cardio-vascular workout. Games like this should be encouraged - not discouraged.
Have you ever seen kids playing on one of these? None of the music I have heard come out of one is well-known (unless you play the game I guess). Yet kids wait in line and play the game for hours.
At this point - who really cares if Vista is ever released?
are you a tool or just a fool?
Google isn't doing anything particularly bad in China - google.com is still available just like it always was to the Chinese - uncensored. Oh wait, it is censored just the user's don't know what parts are cut out. Hrm... So now google.cn is there and censored just like google.com except now the users actually know when something is being censored AND they have a more responsive experience.
So by giving Chinese users the same access to information they had before, with better performance, and furhter insight into the dataset returned Google is wrong?
please. Google would have been worse by doing nothing or pulling out of China all together. But, of course, nobody wants to actually think about the consequences of Google fully censoring themselves (shutting down in China) or of not taking a more proactive stance towards the problems faced by the govenmental censorship of google.com
since there were a couple of people who wanted to know the last time some loon tried to bomb/burn down an abortion clinic:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_viol.htm
that site gives a pretty good rundown on the violent history toward abortion clinics and the people who work there.
Are you kidding me? Do you really believe this guy wasn't playing Solitaire on the clock? I don't.
Also, the guy who was fired was a state employee in Albany, not a NYC employee. Perhaps you should read the article instead of telling me to.
Bloomberg didn't fire the guy. However, his irresponsible behaviour in front of Bloomberg clearly contributed to his firing. He was let go as part of general cutbacks. Perhaps this wasn't the first time he was caught with a game running during business hours.
Just to be safe here I'm going to let you know I'm injecting sarcasm:
Wait, I figured it out. I'm not sympathetic enough with the common working man. His ordeal of a deskjob is so difficult that he must spend time playing solitaire to get by. Sure he wasnt hired to play games - but that's the companies fault for not being understanding enough.
: END sarcasm
gimme a break. The linked article was clearly written with a bias in favor of the "victimized" govt employee. It's popular to bash the politician and ignore the fact that this guy was being irresponsible. If this "was" his first offense, sure firing was harsh. But if not then firing was totally inline. Unless you just like to pretend that it was purely bad luck that Solitaire was on his screen at that moment. Pesonally, I don't.
why would it be unfair? The guy was playing solitair while on the company clock. He wasn't hired to play solitaire he was hired to work. I'd fire him too because as far as I am concerned he is robbing his employer. It is no different than the sales clerk who puts her hand in the till.
In the case of this guy who was playing when the mayor of NYC was in his office (or at least was playing just before the mayor arrived) he was both stealing time AND was incompetent at hiding it. He not only made himself look bad but his supervisor as well.
They aren't making this guys job suck - they are making him do his job. It's a big difference. My company wants us to make sure we get 40 hours of billable time in each week. We aren't supposed to be playing games, surfing for porn, or anything else not work related when we are on the clock. Yet everyone likes working there.
The real problem here is a lack of personal responsibility. I have read a variety of posts on here suggesting that the company is partly at fault for not removing the temptation. I didn't realize the company/government was hiring five year olds who need constant monitoring. Perhaps people need to take more responsibility for their inappropriate actions. Of course it's probably their parents fault for not loving them enough as kids or something. Nobody is ever to blame for their own behaviour anymore.