I first played in Indianapolis. I was with my then boyfriend at an arcade, and I did not want to play. (I also did not want to do the stupid Frankenstein thing, but such is life.) But I got up there and I whipped redengine's tail. He was so bad. It was pretty early in the morning, so there was no crowd, but I keep looking for them around here b/c I can't wait to be able to do it again. Anybody know where you can find DDR things in Central Illinois?
Re:To mikeee, re: "hiaku"
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A summer question: Do you mispronounce satire? His form is correct.
Well, I read them over 15 years ago also, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first book. I don't know how on earth you got yours that way. That really is an oddity.
I did just notice on Narnia.com that there are these colored book sets you can read. That's not the traditional version. The traditional are these white books with picture illustrations on the front, in the box set. I suppose they could have reboxed them.
What's even more unlikely is the idea that they'd let you read it and then exploit every bug you can find. The whole point is that it would make things secure. They know it's not going to be perfect, hardly anything released these days is at least for a few months. Heck, Bill might offer to find some folks to write it himself, and maybe get out of some of that little antitrust trouble...
I am happy to say that my little sister is four and she plays with legos. She is mostly into building cars so they roll the fastest across the floor in my dad's kitchen, but like I said, she's four. I think that proof that this has stimulated her creatively because the other day she was telling me that she had designed and then her mom had helped her cut out all of these pieces to put together to make a 3D basket. It's just a basket, I know. But it seemed amazing to me that a kid so young was designing things in 2D to be put together in 3D.
I can only hope that there are still toys like that available when I have my own kids. I don't have my legos anymore (my mom sold them when I was away for a summer), but maybe I can convince her to keep hers so that the next generation has all of those neat little pieces that always seem so scarce when you really need them... like the ones that transfer the block stack from up/down to right/left. And the pulleys. Must have pulleys.
Why was so much of this space taken up with questioning underage sex? It happens. His books are understandable and real, of course they're going to depict images that are realistic. These people who've now realized that much of their opinions about sexuality have been developed through these authors should really thank him. I didn't read this stuff when I was in high school, this was middle school material, and I don't regret it now. I read a lot of stuff like that at that age. Why? Because it is what adolescents do. They wonder, and they read and they think and that's the way it is. Anyone who can't come to terms with THAT is really fooling themselves.
So, to all of those people that had questions of that content: Those are the kinds of books he was writing. You chose to read them. You could have read other kinds of books, but at that age, that very content was part of what fascinated you. Going after the issue years later is a moot point. You would have found something else to read that was just as racy, involving people your age, and now you would be asking pointless questions of those authors.
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Don't you remember? Time travel is supposed to be invented by later this year (fact and fiction). Just a little reminder: when you have to save the world, destroy ALL of the evidence.
I do not recognize any such nomination [for the Darwin Award.
Neither did the other nominees;)
You do have to hand it to him. He is either much braver than most of us, or much stupider, and due to the fact he said that if he thought he had any inkling that he wouldn't make it on launch day, he wouldn't go. Pretty rational statement there, so he at least looks like the bravest one in the/. bunch.
I know people that are already doing subcontracting work for a planned mars mission... it's just not been announced to the general public. But, like many things, that which is already pseudo-public knowledge, is often not admitted until a few months before it's actually time to happen... like the new cost of stamps.
Much like a pregnancy test, you're probably going to find out the truth eventually.... Those early indicators just give you a clue as to what to do next. More security measures and planning for the future. Unless of course you wanted to be hacked;).
Like a pregnancy test, I think the false positives are preferable to sitting around thinking you're safe.
Of course the biologists will win...
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...in the long run.
I work in the power industry. While we do not necessarily share our source code outright (well, no one has asked), we share data like crazy. We don't hoard it because it wouldn't make sense. Our matrices and equations and system solving methods HAVE to be shared with our clients so they can ensure that we're actually giving them something that does what they think it does. Does this mean that other people are going around doing what we do? Not really, because we do it better.
If you are really good at something, other people aren't going to bother trying to do what you do because it's not worth the trouble. Just like the way I paid for someone to move my piano today. I could have gotten a bunch of friends together to do it and rented a dolly and truck, but that took way too much effort.
Convenience, much like advancements in science are going to benefit everyone. Someday, everyone who doesn't add value to society in some way is going to operate on the fringe (well, they already do to some extent), and all information will be shared for the greater good of all. If we collaborate with other industry leaders to come up with new features for our software or to help our clients do things better, it will always benefit us in the long run. The same will be true for the biologists and eventually corporations will get a clue as well.
It has been my experience, taking college level math from both a big ten university and two different community colleges that the quality of instruction insofar as MATH classes go (I can make no claims about other classes) is much better. I thought I was bad at math at the U. Now that I am out of school though, I got interested in math and decided to try again. It appears I just had lousy teachers; I am actually fairly good at math.
There is a difference in student populations too... many of the students at the U were just taking the course because they had to, for a grade. At the community colleges the students are going there (for the most part) because they want to learn, which is a lot better IMHO.
Either way, higher education is so important that if nothing else you should try snagging some community college notes off a student or two. Many times you can get the instructor-written ones.
I had not heard that Elizabeth Smart was a Latter Day Saint until you brought it up. I had also not heard that she was rich until I read this editorial. It all makes sense now! Of course! The media in this country is not controlled simply by white people, but by rich, white, Latter Day Saints!
I really don't see what your point is. I see it as "Mormon, Mormon, Mr. Katz is a plaugerist, Mormon, Mormon." Please correct me if I missed something. I didn't hear it on NPR, but I am glad he posted it because it is good for me to occasionally be reminded about the hold that rich white Latter Day Saints have on our media.;)
We all know Latter Day Saints. My roommate was a Latter Day Saint, her parents and siblings are lovely and still go to church. And you said you were a Mormon?
I live in the midwest and I have never heard of this Alexis Patterson. I don't own a television, but I read news online frequently and listen to local radio. This Elizabeth Smart name has been buzzing in my ears constantly. I don't live in Milwaukee. I don't live in Salt Lake City. I live somewhere else. And you seem to have missed Mr. Katz's point. The blonde girl from SLC is the one that has gotten the coverage here, despite the fact that Milwaukee is a LOT closer geographically and even demographically.
From the article "If eruptions like these are aimed at Earth, they can disturb Earth's magnetosphere, but this one was not directed at our planet." I admit I'm dumb, but I'm also curious. What do you mean by service disruptions?
Ahh, so it is the value of your life that you hold so low. For starters, I can think of no circumstance wherein my family would need a million dollars. Additionally it is to be expected that those who don't like themselves enough to value their own lives would not have astounding morals with regard to the lives of others.
Despite your assumed unattachment to this person, you have no reason not to believe that they are not a human with much more a right to live than you have (admittedly you have no reason to not to believe the converse either). To misquote Gandalf from LoTR, "I would not be so quick to deal out life and death."
No, both of you are obviously very ill. Do you only obey the law because you are afraid of getting caught? Do the consequences of atrocities such as rape frighten you only insofar as your obvious immediate incarceration? If the question was "Imagine there's a person like you somewhere, anywhere. If you could push a button and kill the person without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?," I would be forced to question my impeccable morals just to put the world out of your misery.
Last I checked, loose wires happen all the time, and then, provided no one about is bored enough to take whatever it is apart, a good shake ten years later will sometimes yield a working item.
I have a loose wire in the front driver's side speaker in my car. I go over one bump, I get surround sound. I go over another and, voila!, I don't. I could fix it, but I don't have time yet.
So in other words, the...someone else... didn't even have to replace the satellite with a new one resembling OSCAR 7. All they had to do was bump it.
I wouldn't do it. I kind of like my limbs as they are: usable. I'm not sure how a sack of fluid for a calf can be walked upon, and I don't really want to know. This is going to make missions to Mars and other long-term space exploration really hard, this being more of an obstacle than any other facets.
I concede. Upon reflecting I guess I do have that formula memorized... but if I want to use the trig substitutions today, I have look them up (Isn't that what the point of all that is anyway... learning an overview such that then we can refer to books and whatnot for the details whenever necessary?).
My point exactly. While we may be able to figure one out given a few minutes, we certainly didn't grow up using them. If, however, the need arose, we could figure one out. Likewise with looking trigonometric values up in a table in the back of a book, just like the rules for differentiation by parts. Even if kids today aren't learning to use the tools that we used (our brains) to graph hyperbolas, that doesn't mean they won't be able to do so manually. It may take them a little longer (it would take us longer to use a slide rule) but they could get it. The important point is that they are learning the mathematics behind the concepts.
Hey, some people are trying to pay...
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...Maybe he's an idiot for being so honest in the opinions of many, but I say props to the man. One of my coworkers has been trying to tell the cable company for forever that they are not charging him for cable. When he got his cable modem two years ago, he noticed that they quit sending cable bills. He contacted them repeatedly to try to correct the problem. Finally, about six months ago, he gave up. After numerous phone calls and complaints, he decided to send a letter to them stating "This is the last communication regarding this problem that I am going to submit. I cannot be held responsible for any late fees, as I have made more than a reasonable effort to correct the problem." He then went on to cite every confirmation number and communication date on file.
He is still getting free cable. Those people at Insight are either idiots, or they have some serious bugs in their billing software. Now if only they could manage to screw up like that for me... I could steal it, but I won't. But if I'm trying to pay for it, that's different.
Of course, that assertion is purely theoretical, as is the age of the universe, the finite number of particles within the universe, and even the existence of the universe. I was just trying to be funny.
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I first played in Indianapolis. I was with my then boyfriend at an arcade, and I did not want to play. (I also did not want to do the stupid Frankenstein thing, but such is life.) But I got up there and I whipped redengine's tail. He was so bad. It was pretty early in the morning, so there was no crowd, but I keep looking for them around here b/c I can't wait to be able to do it again. Anybody know where you can find DDR things in Central Illinois?
A summer question:
Do you mispronounce satire?
His form is correct.
Well, I read them over 15 years ago also, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first book. I don't know how on earth you got yours that way. That really is an oddity.
I did just notice on Narnia.com that there are these colored book sets you can read. That's not the traditional version. The traditional are these white books with picture illustrations on the front, in the box set. I suppose they could have reboxed them.
What's even more unlikely is the idea that they'd let you read it and then exploit every bug you can find. The whole point is that it would make things secure. They know it's not going to be perfect, hardly anything released these days is at least for a few months. Heck, Bill might offer to find some folks to write it himself, and maybe get out of some of that little antitrust trouble...
I am happy to say that my little sister is four and she plays with legos. She is mostly into building cars so they roll the fastest across the floor in my dad's kitchen, but like I said, she's four. I think that proof that this has stimulated her creatively because the other day she was telling me that she had designed and then her mom had helped her cut out all of these pieces to put together to make a 3D basket. It's just a basket, I know. But it seemed amazing to me that a kid so young was designing things in 2D to be put together in 3D.
I can only hope that there are still toys like that available when I have my own kids. I don't have my legos anymore (my mom sold them when I was away for a summer), but maybe I can convince her to keep hers so that the next generation has all of those neat little pieces that always seem so scarce when you really need them... like the ones that transfer the block stack from up/down to right/left. And the pulleys. Must have pulleys.
Why was so much of this space taken up with questioning underage sex? It happens. His books are understandable and real, of course they're going to depict images that are realistic. These people who've now realized that much of their opinions about sexuality have been developed through these authors should really thank him. I didn't read this stuff when I was in high school, this was middle school material, and I don't regret it now. I read a lot of stuff like that at that age. Why? Because it is what adolescents do. They wonder, and they read and they think and that's the way it is. Anyone who can't come to terms with THAT is really fooling themselves.
So, to all of those people that had questions of that content: Those are the kinds of books he was writing. You chose to read them. You could have read other kinds of books, but at that age, that very content was part of what fascinated you. Going after the issue years later is a moot point. You would have found something else to read that was just as racy, involving people your age, and now you would be asking pointless questions of those authors.
Don't you remember? Time travel is supposed to be invented by later this year (fact and fiction). Just a little reminder: when you have to save the world, destroy ALL of the evidence.
I do not recognize any such nomination [for the Darwin Award.
Neither did the other nominees ;)
You do have to hand it to him. He is either much braver than most of us, or much stupider, and due to the fact he said that if he thought he had any inkling that he wouldn't make it on launch day, he wouldn't go. Pretty rational statement there, so he at least looks like the bravest one in the /. bunch.
I know people that are already doing subcontracting work for a planned mars mission... it's just not been announced to the general public. But, like many things, that which is already pseudo-public knowledge, is often not admitted until a few months before it's actually time to happen... like the new cost of stamps.
Much like a pregnancy test, you're probably going to find out the truth eventually.... Those early indicators just give you a clue as to what to do next. More security measures and planning for the future. Unless of course you wanted to be hacked ;).
Like a pregnancy test, I think the false positives are preferable to sitting around thinking you're safe.
I work in the power industry. While we do not necessarily share our source code outright (well, no one has asked), we share data like crazy. We don't hoard it because it wouldn't make sense. Our matrices and equations and system solving methods HAVE to be shared with our clients so they can ensure that we're actually giving them something that does what they think it does. Does this mean that other people are going around doing what we do? Not really, because we do it better.
If you are really good at something, other people aren't going to bother trying to do what you do because it's not worth the trouble. Just like the way I paid for someone to move my piano today. I could have gotten a bunch of friends together to do it and rented a dolly and truck, but that took way too much effort.
Convenience, much like advancements in science are going to benefit everyone. Someday, everyone who doesn't add value to society in some way is going to operate on the fringe (well, they already do to some extent), and all information will be shared for the greater good of all. If we collaborate with other industry leaders to come up with new features for our software or to help our clients do things better, it will always benefit us in the long run. The same will be true for the biologists and eventually corporations will get a clue as well.
It has been my experience, taking college level math from both a big ten university and two different community colleges that the quality of instruction insofar as MATH classes go (I can make no claims about other classes) is much better. I thought I was bad at math at the U. Now that I am out of school though, I got interested in math and decided to try again. It appears I just had lousy teachers; I am actually fairly good at math.
There is a difference in student populations too... many of the students at the U were just taking the course because they had to, for a grade. At the community colleges the students are going there (for the most part) because they want to learn, which is a lot better IMHO.
Either way, higher education is so important that if nothing else you should try snagging some community college notes off a student or two. Many times you can get the instructor-written ones.
I had not heard that Elizabeth Smart was a Latter Day Saint until you brought it up. I had also not heard that she was rich until I read this editorial. It all makes sense now! Of course! The media in this country is not controlled simply by white people, but by rich, white, Latter Day Saints!
I really don't see what your point is. I see it as "Mormon, Mormon, Mr. Katz is a plaugerist, Mormon, Mormon." Please correct me if I missed something. I didn't hear it on NPR, but I am glad he posted it because it is good for me to occasionally be reminded about the hold that rich white Latter Day Saints have on our media. ;)
We all know Latter Day Saints. My roommate was a Latter Day Saint, her parents and siblings are lovely and still go to church. And you said you were a Mormon?
I live in the midwest and I have never heard of this Alexis Patterson. I don't own a television, but I read news online frequently and listen to local radio. This Elizabeth Smart name has been buzzing in my ears constantly. I don't live in Milwaukee. I don't live in Salt Lake City. I live somewhere else. And you seem to have missed Mr. Katz's point. The blonde girl from SLC is the one that has gotten the coverage here, despite the fact that Milwaukee is a LOT closer geographically and even demographically.
From the article "If eruptions like these are aimed at Earth, they can disturb Earth's magnetosphere, but this one was not directed at our planet." I admit I'm dumb, but I'm also curious. What do you mean by service disruptions?
Ahh, so it is the value of your life that you hold so low. For starters, I can think of no circumstance wherein my family would need a million dollars. Additionally it is to be expected that those who don't like themselves enough to value their own lives would not have astounding morals with regard to the lives of others.
Despite your assumed unattachment to this person, you have no reason not to believe that they are not a human with much more a right to live than you have (admittedly you have no reason to not to believe the converse either). To misquote Gandalf from LoTR, "I would not be so quick to deal out life and death."
No, both of you are obviously very ill. Do you only obey the law because you are afraid of getting caught? Do the consequences of atrocities such as rape frighten you only insofar as your obvious immediate incarceration? If the question was "Imagine there's a person like you somewhere, anywhere. If you could push a button and kill the person without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?," I would be forced to question my impeccable morals just to put the world out of your misery.
Last I checked, loose wires happen all the time, and then, provided no one about is bored enough to take whatever it is apart, a good shake ten years later will sometimes yield a working item.
I have a loose wire in the front driver's side speaker in my car. I go over one bump, I get surround sound. I go over another and, voila!, I don't. I could fix it, but I don't have time yet.
So in other words, the ...someone else... didn't even have to replace the satellite with a new one resembling OSCAR 7. All they had to do was bump it.
Just how does one produce artificial frickin' gravity?
I wouldn't do it. I kind of like my limbs as they are: usable. I'm not sure how a sack of fluid for a calf can be walked upon, and I don't really want to know. This is going to make missions to Mars and other long-term space exploration really hard, this being more of an obstacle than any other facets.
I concede. Upon reflecting I guess I do have that formula memorized... but if I want to use the trig substitutions today, I have look them up (Isn't that what the point of all that is anyway... learning an overview such that then we can refer to books and whatnot for the details whenever necessary?).
Does anyone here know how to use a slide rule?
My point exactly. While we may be able to figure one out given a few minutes, we certainly didn't grow up using them. If, however, the need arose, we could figure one out. Likewise with looking trigonometric values up in a table in the back of a book, just like the rules for differentiation by parts. Even if kids today aren't learning to use the tools that we used (our brains) to graph hyperbolas, that doesn't mean they won't be able to do so manually. It may take them a little longer (it would take us longer to use a slide rule) but they could get it. The important point is that they are learning the mathematics behind the concepts.
...Maybe he's an idiot for being so honest in the opinions of many, but I say props to the man. One of my coworkers has been trying to tell the cable company for forever that they are not charging him for cable. When he got his cable modem two years ago, he noticed that they quit sending cable bills. He contacted them repeatedly to try to correct the problem. Finally, about six months ago, he gave up. After numerous phone calls and complaints, he decided to send a letter to them stating "This is the last communication regarding this problem that I am going to submit. I cannot be held responsible for any late fees, as I have made more than a reasonable effort to correct the problem." He then went on to cite every confirmation number and communication date on file.
He is still getting free cable. Those people at Insight are either idiots, or they have some serious bugs in their billing software. Now if only they could manage to screw up like that for me... I could steal it, but I won't. But if I'm trying to pay for it, that's different.
Of course, that assertion is purely theoretical, as is the age of the universe, the finite number of particles within the universe, and even the existence of the universe. I was just trying to be funny.