The perfect moment to suggest the Slashdot Firefox Extension
Yep. I used it to make this largely meaningless reply. Folks, making meaningless replies has never been so easy. Truly this is a great day for the Slashdot community. Run, run to get the Slashdot extension in the parent above. May our endless blather will never cease.
Oh, my... you are correct sir. Let's send a letter to the editor.
In Re: Salad Plate dimension.
I read your recent hirsute lobster tale (pun very much intended) recently and was flummoxed by your use of "salad plate" as a measure of what I'm guessing is area. Could you please restate the size in dimensions your readership could understand? Perhaps football fields, breadboxes, or tons of TNT?
Yahoo! Australia broke this one open, eh? So, it's pretty big news, right? And from the summary, I see that Apple patched a flaw six months ago. Uh huh. That seems like something I shuold hear about now. Ooh, I also see from the summary that users with admin rights can do things that only admin users can do! E-stop the e-presses! This is FRONT PAGE MATERAL!
I can't stand these things. I bought a GAME to PLAY. Not a POORLY ANIMATED MOVIE to WATCH. Whenever I get a title that I think might be "rich" with cinematics, I look at the preferences to see if there's a way to speed them up. I turn off the sound in them if possible, I make text scroll as fast as possible, etc.
I know they want to "advance the story"; but if a game wants to have any CHANCE at replay value, it'd better allow me to skip the damn cinematics. That's why I can still play Prince of Persia:Sands of Time.
100% of my household thinks this is going too far. what's next? having a really good memory outlawed? i'm tired of the arguement "we lose money if.." maybe that's why drugs are illegal; drug dealers complained that "we would lose money if drugs were legal". it all makes sense now.. lemme get back to my drugs.
If you run a retail establishment you either need to have licensed the music used for public broadcast, or be able to sell the music that you play. Most "Small Business for Dummies" books tell you to keep a copy of the CD behind the counter to avoid any hassle.
Re:Maybe not declining, but simply changing
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Offtopic, I know, I know. But I have to agree. I'm AMAZED at the number of people the take the time to type out a signature in the body of the message just so I can see it. I've started FOE'ing for this, it just irritates me to no end. Chriss, I'm sure you're a nice person, and your comment seems well written; but now you know why I'm a "freak".
I'm guessing somebody did a global search & replace or a spelling check that was screwed up.
You can also ip or rotate photos with OOo Draw. There are several ways to do this. One is to use the Rotation tab in the Position and Size dialog box. Either click one of the preset sideways, upside-down, or 45-degree angle choices, or use the little window to the left of the "big" choices there to select your rotation angle in 15-degree increments. If that isn't enough choices, you can go to the menu at the top of the OOo window, choose Modify > Rotate, and use the corner handles on the picture to turn it. You can try various angles until you nd one you like.
Just another example of the cking awesome power of OOo!
I think you mean:
Round-up, Round-down, get around-toward-nearest,
I get around-half-up,
Yeah,
Get around-half-down, round-half-even, round-half-odd, I get around-toward-zerowooooooHHHHooo!
Assuming you have an Internet connection, you should get BumperCar from Freeverse. It's got a whitelist, timing functions, tracking, etc. It's robust too, a company I worked for ran several "kiddie" stress tests against it--using denary addresses, trying to proxy around, homemade javascript, etc. I can confidently say that very few 8th graders can beat it if you set things correctly. I cannot say the same for things like CyberSitter--those are comically poor at keeping your kids away from porn, gambling, and warez.
Actually, you're wrong. I started a thread about this in a Pet Peeves poll a few months ago. Check it out. Affect and effect can be used as nouns or adjectives. Admittedly, most folks here still screw them up.
...and eating it too!
Heaven forfend someone pick up and play one of the 5 CSI games (for three platforms mind you). The ones that have been rated by the ESRB are all rated Mature(17+) and feature healthy things like Bood and Gore, Violence, and , ooh hey, Sexual Themes if you pick up the CSI:Miami one.
No, most of the filters are better than that. One thing a lot of them pick up is the use of certain HTML markup tags. If, for example, a zillion messages are screened, and the use of (Glorious, penis-pill selling RED!) appears in a lot of junk mail, but very few letters from Mom; then it's flagged as a spam trigger as well. The use of character strings like the "0r+" part of "M0r+gage rates" can be scanned and scored as well.
I'm essentially crypto ignorant. About all I've known to do was verify MD5 hashes on downloads. Now that this is by-and-large pointless, how to check the veracity of things like Linux ISO's, video drivers, etc, ad inifintum?
With the exception of the Super Star Wars series of titles back in the SNES days, and games like X-Wing and Tie Fighter, and Dark Forces, Dark Forces 2, Jedi Knight, and Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, and the vector-based arcade classics, Star Wars movie-specific game titles have almost universally disappointed.
There's a point at which "tradition" becomes branding. Everyone that's played a Final Fantasy game knows there's battle transitions. It was for technical reasons before, no it's for branding. If there wasn't this transition, we'd start to compare Final Fantasy to a zillion other games that let you walk around and collect crap and attack wee beasties...and it might come up short. Final Fantasy's characters and stories have been all over the place, so there's no brand continuity there--all they have is the name, some consistant lingo (gil, etc), and certain play characteristics--like battle transitions.
That's a cool summary of punctuated equilibrium. Too bad kids in Kansas will spend science class learning how Noah accidently killed the unicorns instead of learning anything Gould had to say.
Intelligent design supporters ousted....In Pennsylvania. They made some pretty nice headway in Kansas, though. This seems like a rather ~focused~ Slashback if it can recall a story from May 2nd that ends well for the side of science and well-reasoned individuals, but ignore the story that got front page treatment earlier today.
These ID guys are starting to scare me a little. It's one thing to learn this stuff at Bible Camp and what not, it's another to compel teachers to give it time in science class. Embarassing for us as a nation, really. Thanks, Kansas.
...that they went after the guy that uploaded Daredevil, Red Planet, and Miss Congeniality. Does this mean that they are really serious and will protect their copyrighted materials no matter how crappy they may be? Or, are they so pissed at this guy for reminding P2P users that these three movies were made that they had to do something to punish him? If the latter, I hope whoever posted Gigli on eDonkey has a good lawyer.
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In Re: Salad Plate dimension.
I read your recent hirsute lobster tale (pun very much intended) recently and was flummoxed by your use of "salad plate" as a measure of what I'm guessing is area. Could you please restate the size in dimensions your readership could understand? Perhaps football fields, breadboxes, or tons of TNT?
Thank you humbly,
A.Coward, Esq.
No, no, you misheard. It's "wholly" water. Only more so.
Sunshine?
Yahoo! Australia broke this one open, eh? So, it's pretty big news, right? And from the summary, I see that Apple patched a flaw six months ago. Uh huh. That seems like something I shuold hear about now. Ooh, I also see from the summary that users with admin rights can do things that only admin users can do! E-stop the e-presses! This is FRONT PAGE MATERAL!
I can't stand these things. I bought a GAME to PLAY. Not a POORLY ANIMATED MOVIE to WATCH. Whenever I get a title that I think might be "rich" with cinematics, I look at the preferences to see if there's a way to speed them up. I turn off the sound in them if possible, I make text scroll as fast as possible, etc. I know they want to "advance the story"; but if a game wants to have any CHANCE at replay value, it'd better allow me to skip the damn cinematics. That's why I can still play Prince of Persia:Sands of Time.
If you run a retail establishment you either need to have licensed the music used for public broadcast, or be able to sell the music that you play. Most "Small Business for Dummies" books tell you to keep a copy of the CD behind the counter to avoid any hassle.
Offtopic, I know, I know. But I have to agree. I'm AMAZED at the number of people the take the time to type out a signature in the body of the message just so I can see it. I've started FOE'ing for this, it just irritates me to no end. Chriss, I'm sure you're a nice person, and your comment seems well written; but now you know why I'm a "freak".
Just another example of the cking awesome power of OOo!
I think you mean:
Round-up, Round-down, get around-toward-nearest,
I get around-half-up,
Yeah,
Get around-half-down, round-half-even, round-half-odd, I get around-toward-zerowooooooHHHHooo!
Assuming you have an Internet connection, you should get BumperCar from Freeverse. It's got a whitelist, timing functions, tracking, etc. It's robust too, a company I worked for ran several "kiddie" stress tests against it--using denary addresses, trying to proxy around, homemade javascript, etc. I can confidently say that very few 8th graders can beat it if you set things correctly. I cannot say the same for things like CyberSitter--those are comically poor at keeping your kids away from porn, gambling, and warez.
...if it's not too dear.
Actually, you're wrong. I started a thread about this in a Pet Peeves poll a few months ago. Check it out. Affect and effect can be used as nouns or adjectives. Admittedly, most folks here still screw them up.
...and eating it too! Heaven forfend someone pick up and play one of the 5 CSI games (for three platforms mind you). The ones that have been rated by the ESRB are all rated Mature(17+) and feature healthy things like Bood and Gore, Violence, and , ooh hey, Sexual Themes if you pick up the CSI:Miami one.
No, most of the filters are better than that. One thing a lot of them pick up is the use of certain HTML markup tags. If, for example, a zillion messages are screened, and the use of (Glorious, penis-pill selling RED!) appears in a lot of junk mail, but very few letters from Mom; then it's flagged as a spam trigger as well. The use of character strings like the "0r+" part of "M0r+gage rates" can be scanned and scored as well.
I also have to take issue with the "No Incidents" description. There was, after all, an incident called the . That article also mentions Patrick Arguello, who was killed on an El Al flight he tried to commandeer.
I'm essentially crypto ignorant. About all I've known to do was verify MD5 hashes on downloads. Now that this is by-and-large pointless, how to check the veracity of things like Linux ISO's, video drivers, etc, ad inifintum?
There's a point at which "tradition" becomes branding. Everyone that's played a Final Fantasy game knows there's battle transitions. It was for technical reasons before, no it's for branding. If there wasn't this transition, we'd start to compare Final Fantasy to a zillion other games that let you walk around and collect crap and attack wee beasties...and it might come up short. Final Fantasy's characters and stories have been all over the place, so there's no brand continuity there--all they have is the name, some consistant lingo (gil, etc), and certain play characteristics--like battle transitions.
That's a cool summary of punctuated equilibrium. Too bad kids in Kansas will spend science class learning how Noah accidently killed the unicorns instead of learning anything Gould had to say.
...that they went after the guy that uploaded Daredevil, Red Planet, and Miss Congeniality. Does this mean that they are really serious and will protect their copyrighted materials no matter how crappy they may be? Or, are they so pissed at this guy for reminding P2P users that these three movies were made that they had to do something to punish him? If the latter, I hope whoever posted Gigli on eDonkey has a good lawyer.
Thanks for asking!