Yeah, so, after looking it up, I still don't know how to say "ginormous". (Not that I plan on using it any time soon anyway.) Their pronunciation guide could stand to also include the guide I've seen in dictionaries for decades, rather than an unnecessary international guide when I'm looking up an English word.
Okay... and since we're comparing that to a landline phone, exactly how much of that do you get with a landline?
My phone has both an alarm clock and a calculator. It's a Nokia 6015i. Five years ago, when I bought it, I think I paid maybe $50 for it. Your other reasons for having a landline make sense, to be sure, but the way you're comparing the prices is a little skewed, is all.
I guess I've never actually asked ("Excuse me, but do you have a fire blanket on board?" "Why?), but I'd hope planes carry a fire blanket on them. Maybe it's not so dangerous if you have a quick response?
Yes, I still have it. The setup and backend are not exactly user-friendly, and it makes some assumptions about how the data gets entered, though. Of course, they were safe assumptions for the way the courses worked where I went.
No, I can see the characters and the stereotypes they're supposed to be. You've got the GM, the crazy chick, the uber asian gamer, the fat mom ignoring her kids and family... I get the characters. They're just bad, and badly acted. It looks like the series is for people who don't play MMOs so they can feel justified when they make fun of people who do play them.
There really isn't a whole lot to the series where I felt like I was missing something by not having seen season 1.
Nah. Like I said, I did it from the students' point of view. So the rooms were already set up, and class sizes were 25 90% of the time. But if you needed to take 5 courses that semester, and there were, say, 15 sections for 2 of them and 5 sections for the other 3, it would tell you all the possible ways you could get that to work.
One of my projects for a comp sci class in college was a scheduling system, of sorts. It was done from the student's point of view, though. I'd set it up by importing data from a CSV done in Excel, and it would know which lab sections belonged with which lecture sections of a course. It allowed you to specify preferred class times and teachers from what was available. You would enter in what required courses you needed to take, and additionally enter in several optional courses, only one of which you could take, and it would give you a list of all possible schedules, sorted from most desirable to least.
The schedule creation was done in a PHP script which is about 6KB in size, and the whole thing is about 140KB, csv not included.
Aside from the fact that there is no step 2, why stop there?
1. Wake up. 2. Get dressed. 3. Have breakfast. 4. Open door to outside. 5. Step through door. 6. Close door. 7-9. Repeat 4-6, but use car door. 10. Turn on car. 11. Drive to store. (This could easily be another 50 steps or so.) 12-14. Repeat of 7-9.
Phew, that's a lot of steps, and we haven't even entered the store for the proprietary OS yet!
Whenever I fly, I try to put as much as possible in my carry-on, because I generally don't trust the airlines to deliver my stuff to the proper destination.
I couldn't find a document for 2008, but according to the first link on this page of the Ministry of Transport's site, in 2007 there were a total of 0 bus drivers and 1 bus passenger killed in all crashes through the year, out of a total of 422 vehicle-related deaths (Table 7). These numbers are 0 and 0 in both 2006 and 2005, as well. Furthermore, a Google search for "2008 new zealand bus accident" doesn't appear to turn up any accidents with a death count of 14 or lower, and the only two bus crashes in NZ for the year (from the search results list) appear to have been in February and December.
In short, I think it's safe to rule out a bus as the cause of 14 deaths.
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I realize that. But then why bother with the text pronunciations?
Yeah, so, after looking it up, I still don't know how to say "ginormous". (Not that I plan on using it any time soon anyway.) Their pronunciation guide could stand to also include the guide I've seen in dictionaries for decades, rather than an unnecessary international guide when I'm looking up an English word.
You mean aside from the actual, official Scrabble dictionary?
Okay... and since we're comparing that to a landline phone, exactly how much of that do you get with a landline?
My phone has both an alarm clock and a calculator. It's a Nokia 6015i. Five years ago, when I bought it, I think I paid maybe $50 for it. Your other reasons for having a landline make sense, to be sure, but the way you're comparing the prices is a little skewed, is all.
Where the hell do you live that a cell phone costs $600?
I guess I've never actually asked ("Excuse me, but do you have a fire blanket on board?" "Why?), but I'd hope planes carry a fire blanket on them. Maybe it's not so dangerous if you have a quick response?
I want to know what horny bastard decided that everything shaped like a stick had to be phallic. Have you seen how many penises are on a tree?
I forget what comic first said it, but "you can make missles shaped like vaginas; they just won't fly very well."
Did you take your Cheerios with extra piss this morning?
I found his comment pretty entertaining. Just wish I'd read it before moving out of my old apartment.
On the other hand, part of the iTunes EULA states you may not use it for terrorism. So...
A yardstick that works only and specifically for the case you're trying to prove hardly seems fair.
Yes, I still have it. The setup and backend are not exactly user-friendly, and it makes some assumptions about how the data gets entered, though. Of course, they were safe assumptions for the way the courses worked where I went.
No, I can see the characters and the stereotypes they're supposed to be. You've got the GM, the crazy chick, the uber asian gamer, the fat mom ignoring her kids and family... I get the characters. They're just bad, and badly acted. It looks like the series is for people who don't play MMOs so they can feel justified when they make fun of people who do play them.
There really isn't a whole lot to the series where I felt like I was missing something by not having seen season 1.
Nah. Like I said, I did it from the students' point of view. So the rooms were already set up, and class sizes were 25 90% of the time. But if you needed to take 5 courses that semester, and there were, say, 15 sections for 2 of them and 5 sections for the other 3, it would tell you all the possible ways you could get that to work.
I watched what I think was the first episode of season 2.
That was awful. Thankfully it was only 5 minutes.
I see why it's online and not on TV.
One of my projects for a comp sci class in college was a scheduling system, of sorts. It was done from the student's point of view, though. I'd set it up by importing data from a CSV done in Excel, and it would know which lab sections belonged with which lecture sections of a course. It allowed you to specify preferred class times and teachers from what was available. You would enter in what required courses you needed to take, and additionally enter in several optional courses, only one of which you could take, and it would give you a list of all possible schedules, sorted from most desirable to least.
The schedule creation was done in a PHP script which is about 6KB in size, and the whole thing is about 140KB, csv not included.
If you have a man who gets a sex change and becomes a woman, is it fair for that person to compete in the women's events?
If I believe I am a turtle, does that make me a turtle?
Uhh.... how is that racist?
I know of someone who's sold his account three times over. It works like this:
1) Sell account.
2) Call Blizzard.
3) Account is transfered back to original owner.
I really hope someone he scams calls Blizzard to report it.
Aside from the fact that there is no step 2, why stop there?
1. Wake up.
2. Get dressed.
3. Have breakfast.
4. Open door to outside.
5. Step through door.
6. Close door.
7-9. Repeat 4-6, but use car door.
10. Turn on car.
11. Drive to store. (This could easily be another 50 steps or so.)
12-14. Repeat of 7-9.
Phew, that's a lot of steps, and we haven't even entered the store for the proprietary OS yet!
Whenever I fly, I try to put as much as possible in my carry-on, because I generally don't trust the airlines to deliver my stuff to the proper destination.
How do you get SM out of Sean and Michael? Shouldn't it be S&M? You might think more fondly of them that way.
You had a pretty nice rebuttal until you went all ad hominem on his ass.
So... Firehose? I know it's a new feature and all, but still.
I couldn't find a document for 2008, but according to the first link on this page of the Ministry of Transport's site, in 2007 there were a total of 0 bus drivers and 1 bus passenger killed in all crashes through the year, out of a total of 422 vehicle-related deaths (Table 7). These numbers are 0 and 0 in both 2006 and 2005, as well. Furthermore, a Google search for "2008 new zealand bus accident" doesn't appear to turn up any accidents with a death count of 14 or lower, and the only two bus crashes in NZ for the year (from the search results list) appear to have been in February and December.
In short, I think it's safe to rule out a bus as the cause of 14 deaths.