Actually, the new (current) bills are black-light sensitive. The strip that runs through the 5, 10, and 20 glows blue, orange, and yellow, respectively. I don't have 50s or 100s lying around, but I bet they glow different colors, as well.
Really? NeXTstep had display hardware acceleration on the system level? (There's a better way to word that, I'm sure.) Did Apple buy NeXT before 3D vid cards went mainstream? Wasn't NeXTstep not a consumer level product?
Just go to the Apple store and click on the "Special Deals" tag near the bottom left. Doesn't look like there's anything quite worth getting in there, though.
Although that post has more of a prophetic feel to it than an insightful one, I'll let most of it slide. The only thing I should point out is that there are plenty of factors, age and sex included, in which discrimination is legal in some instances and not in others.
In the US, it's only illegal to discriminate based on age against people over 40. Hence why things like child labor and child porn are illegal, and why laws against those things aren't illegal.
I know of a health club franchise that only allows female members, but again, that's deemed legal.
The US isn't and likely never will be a completely "equal" country. There's too much stuff like this, some of which makes sense, that prevents it from meeting that definition.
Of course insurance has always been a numbers game. In Massachusetts, car insurance is required. I'm still wondering if that's a good thing or bad thing.
Um. Yeah. I wasn't disagreeing with you. Though I did make two typos in that post. I'm too tired to do anything and not tired enough to go to bed. Bah.
It figures. The one time I don't preview is the one time I seriously goof up a post. Ah well. In any case, the example was this, which may actually be below.
I remember reading somewhere- I think it was the Forbes article- that you can only burn a given playlist 10 times. You can rearrange and continue to burn the same song again. It also mentioned that burning the AAC song to CD and ripping the resulting CD back to MP3 resulted in poor quality audio, in case you were wondering.:)
Nokia offered a $50 rebate on a phone I bought in December. I got it sometime in February or March.
Nintendo offered a $25 rebate on purchase of WaveBird and Gamecube, and a $5 rebate on purchase of WaveBird and a game, limit one per household. I received both.
CyberRebate.com used to offer up to 100% rebates on items, until they went out of business.
"That AT&T would permit third-party phone charges based only on the authority of a recorded message is beyond belief," Sherry fumed. "Third-party billing should be allowed only when a real person answers the phone and is able to verify that they approve the charges."
Okay, aside from "say this random word" (which so far is the best idea for how to stop this), exactly how does this person expect an automated system to tell the difference between a real person and an automated system? The audio quality of someone's voice transferred over phone lines is such that I doubt it'd be easy to tell the difference between a voice transferred once and a voice transferred twice (once to the recording, once back).
The trouble with the random word method is that the words would have to be sufficiently different, perhaps containing different numbers of syllables, so that no two words would sound alike. Of course, even with words with different numbers of syllables, one syllable can sound like two with certain accents' pronunciation of dipthongs. Even "toast" can sound like "flower", if you butcher it enough. And I'd be willing to bet that most of the voice recognition, at least for the level that phone companies currently require, is based on vowel sounds rather than consonants. I expect vowels are easier to process.
I think the way it worked is that these were "third party" calls. Many pay phones (at least used to) allow you to dial one number, but charge the call to a third party. You enter that third party's number, and if they agree to accept the charges, you can call pretty much anywhere you want, and the third party pays.
Once that third party accepts the charges, I believe they're disconnected from the call.
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You know, every time I talk to a PC user about upgrading Macs and how you actually can do it, I always forget you can upgrade the processor through stuff like this. Oh well.
You know, I really wish I worked for a travel company, because that's a great idea. I'd love to see an airline saying that people are stealing airplanes and that they should look on college campuses to find them. Or ground all the "independent" flyers, citing lost revenue for commercial airlines.
Yes. Yes you did. Not as common as Father O'Day or the reply to Father O'Day, but this one shows up from time to time.
(BTW, my kudos to whomever thought about trolling responses to trolls. To bad it's out of order now and then.)
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Pretty much any 5 (or more) sexy actresses in a live-action Sailor Moon game. Not sure how it would play.
Don't let the Sailor Moon purists know I said that, though!
Actually, the new (current) bills are black-light sensitive. The strip that runs through the 5, 10, and 20 glows blue, orange, and yellow, respectively. I don't have 50s or 100s lying around, but I bet they glow different colors, as well.
Really? NeXTstep had display hardware acceleration on the system level? (There's a better way to word that, I'm sure.) Did Apple buy NeXT before 3D vid cards went mainstream? Wasn't NeXTstep not a consumer level product?
Answers:
Yes.
No.
Not switching to Windows.
Just go to the Apple store and click on the "Special Deals" tag near the bottom left. Doesn't look like there's anything quite worth getting in there, though.
Wait, I thought *BSD was dying? ;-)
Heh. Hope you're not planning on getting the Diablo II 1.10 patch.
Druggies in general should be given enough of their drug of choice that they OD and die.
Think about it. Kill two birds with one stone.
Although that post has more of a prophetic feel to it than an insightful one, I'll let most of it slide. The only thing I should point out is that there are plenty of factors, age and sex included, in which discrimination is legal in some instances and not in others.
In the US, it's only illegal to discriminate based on age against people over 40. Hence why things like child labor and child porn are illegal, and why laws against those things aren't illegal.
I know of a health club franchise that only allows female members, but again, that's deemed legal.
The US isn't and likely never will be a completely "equal" country. There's too much stuff like this, some of which makes sense, that prevents it from meeting that definition.
Of course insurance has always been a numbers game. In Massachusetts, car insurance is required. I'm still wondering if that's a good thing or bad thing.
Um. Yeah. I wasn't disagreeing with you. Though I did make two typos in that post. I'm too tired to do anything and not tired enough to go to bed. Bah.
Actually, a crappy switch statement is the first thing I though of. Something like:
switch(attribute)
default:
crash();
}
Frightening, really.
Man, this was just begging for an all your base reference.
It figures. The one time I don't preview is the one time I seriously goof up a post. Ah well. In any case, the example was this, which may actually be below.
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as an example. That's 9, unless I'm really tired. :-P
I remember reading somewhere- I think it was the Forbes article- that you can only burn a given playlist 10 times. You can rearrange and continue to burn the same song again. It also mentioned that burning the AAC song to CD and ripping the resulting CD back to MP3 resulted in poor quality audio, in case you were wondering. :)
Multiply by 36.7 cents (their original estimate) or 35 cents (the actual number) and you'll get a number much closer.
Yes, we all know how popular early Christian society was with the authorities of the day.
My rebate experience:
Nokia offered a $50 rebate on a phone I bought in December. I got it sometime in February or March.
Nintendo offered a $25 rebate on purchase of WaveBird and Gamecube, and a $5 rebate on purchase of WaveBird and a game, limit one per household. I received both.
CyberRebate.com used to offer up to 100% rebates on items, until they went out of business.
One of the paragraphs from the article:
Okay, aside from "say this random word" (which so far is the best idea for how to stop this), exactly how does this person expect an automated system to tell the difference between a real person and an automated system? The audio quality of someone's voice transferred over phone lines is such that I doubt it'd be easy to tell the difference between a voice transferred once and a voice transferred twice (once to the recording, once back).
The trouble with the random word method is that the words would have to be sufficiently different, perhaps containing different numbers of syllables, so that no two words would sound alike. Of course, even with words with different numbers of syllables, one syllable can sound like two with certain accents' pronunciation of dipthongs. Even "toast" can sound like "flower", if you butcher it enough. And I'd be willing to bet that most of the voice recognition, at least for the level that phone companies currently require, is based on vowel sounds rather than consonants. I expect vowels are easier to process.
I think the way it worked is that these were "third party" calls. Many pay phones (at least used to) allow you to dial one number, but charge the call to a third party. You enter that third party's number, and if they agree to accept the charges, you can call pretty much anywhere you want, and the third party pays.
Once that third party accepts the charges, I believe they're disconnected from the call.
Why do the deaf need voice mail?
You know, every time I talk to a PC user about upgrading Macs and how you actually can do it, I always forget you can upgrade the processor through stuff like this. Oh well.
You know, I really wish I worked for a travel company, because that's a great idea. I'd love to see an airline saying that people are stealing airplanes and that they should look on college campuses to find them. Or ground all the "independent" flyers, citing lost revenue for commercial airlines.
I don't know, but I hope I get to metamod it. It is less obvious than the other trolls/flamebaits though.
Yes. Yes you did. Not as common as Father O'Day or the reply to Father O'Day, but this one shows up from time to time. (BTW, my kudos to whomever thought about trolling responses to trolls. To bad it's out of order now and then.)