Assuming it's true, the Pacific is 65.3 million square miles, so it would be a tenth of the size of the ocean it's in. Yeah, that still seems pretty ridiculous.
Wikipedia has it at approximately twice the size of Texas-- which is 268,820 square miles-- so "roughly the size of Alaska" sounds like the proper scale.
What sucks is that I can't get a fucking 1/4" to 1/8" headphone adapter at Best Buy, even though they sell all kinds of devices and headphones that use both. They sent me to Radio Shack, but even then the only version of the adapter I could find was the gold-plated one. Still, it beats having to mail-order it; I, too, hope Radio Shack doesn't disappear.
It also seems to depend on the popularity of the game. GS always had a ton of copies of Gears of War, but I didn't see their used copies drop below $50 until the month GoW2 came out (which is foolish, really, because at that point I just bought GoW2 instead, which is a smaller profit margin for GS).
I would love to look at the fonts, but that craigmod page crashed Safari (4.0.2) three times in a row. It looks like the font-face is definitively the reason for the crashes (the thread crashed on WebCore::FontCache::getFontData). I guess on the bright side I now know how to reliably crash Safari.
Man, I see in Slashdot the smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation fighting encryption, cracking protection; slaves with DRM collars. Advertising has us chasing movies and music, using formats we hate so we can watch movies we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose of place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a format war; our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised by technology to believe that one day we would have universal formats, backwards compatibility, and ease of use. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
"Sometimes the thing that you think isn't a scam, is a scam, and the thing that you think is a scam, isn't a scam at all. And sometimes that, itself, is the scam! So as you can see, things can be pretty tricky out there for consumers."
The power grid infrastructure could collapse and he would still have power, thus causing his home to be overrun by power-hungry mutant zombies... Always a risk, indeed.
"The compatibility information above is only for the HTML5 features I tested; they do not necessarily say anything about the browsers' overall HTML5 support. The number of tests will slowly expand."
According to quirksmode, it appears that Safari 4.0 has the most complete support, followed by FF 3.5b and IE8. Chrome and Opera do not appear to, at least as far as supporting the new features is concerned.
My suggestion is to not listen to the Clear Channel stations-- maybe find a good college station instead-- and don't read Spin or Rolling Stone for musical advice ("The Rise of Lady GaGa"? Seriously, RS?), but pick up something like Magnet, instead, for starters. There is a ton of great music being made, it just takes more work to separate the wheat from the chaff. Bands have free mp3s all over the internet, download a bunch of 'em and see what grows on you, or just use Pandora to help you find new things based on what you know you like.
Where did you set the DNS? At the router? Because I, too, am in Portland. I had set my router to point to OpenDNS (two different IPs) and one day about a year ago it stopped working. The only site I could reach was comcast.com. The problem persisted until I finally tracked it down to DNS and reset my router to the Comcast DNS servers.
Except that physical keys can physically break, too.
You've always been able to get apps by searching around a bit for Windows Mobile based phones, and probably for others as well, so the App Store idea is just collecting and monetizing them.
Nah, you've always been able to pay for apps for Win Mobile. So, it's not about monetizing. The biggest problem I found when looking for Win Mobile apps was that it even if you did manage to find the ad-filled webpage that had the file, there was generally no way to distinguish, say, two SSH clients from one another, so you just have to install them both and hope that one of them doesn't fuck up your phone.
Blockbuster and Hollywood Video (and, presumably, other movie rental venues) pay the movie studios a per-rental fee which is based on the age and the popularity of the title. When they then sell the movie used, a portion of that, again, goes to the movie studios.
There was a lawsuit filed by the studios against Hollywood Video about seven or eight years back claiming that they hadn't paid their cut adequately. The funny thing was that, in the resulting audit, it turns out that they had actually overpaid and the studios needed to compensate them.
Just this weekend, I heard a story about a guy who worked some tech support position and wouldn't eat anything all day, but then would go and have two McDonald's value meals and scarf them down, and that was all he would eat, pretty much every day.
He was a skinny guy with a high metabolism, but he woke up one morning and found that he couldn't move; his muscles wouldn't work. Slowly, very slowly, over the next couple of hours, he managed to reach his phone and call the ambulance. He apparently had a huge potassium deficiency and was lucky that his heart didn't stop.
I'll give my classic example (still not fixed), in iTunes:
Insert a CD It should "just work" and start ripping the CD, but it doesn't. Look for an error message.. there is none. Search the menus, look for a button, nope, there's no way to actually *tell* iTunes that you want it to rip the CD. etc.
I had this problem the other day. As it turns out, Parallels was running in the background and XP mounted the CD first. It took me entirely too long to figure out what the fuck had happened.
Outside of Megan Fox, I always thought that the "Transformers" (and, similarly, "G.I. Joe") movies were more geared at the 8-12 year-old crowd. I would have probably loved the first "Transformers" at that age; now, it seems banal and full of jump-cuts and explosions.
Yeah, the post just above yours does mention that once bottled, it doesn't age further. The flavor generally comes from the barrels themselves; just as an example, Jameson's uses previously-used port, sherry, and bourbon barrels to age their whiskey, whereas those original barrel occupants got their flavor and character depending on the wood used.
In a similar vein, I find that I prefer Johnnie Walker Red to any of their more aged stuff.
Then you certainly already know that, in general, it certainly is Scotch and Canadian "whisky" but American and Irish whiskeys are spelled with that pesky extra "e". I should know, I've been to Ireland (once) *and* America and I'm still too drunk to even find a map.
Amen. I got tired of having a phone that freezes up. Windows Mobile made me too paranoid to get an iPhone, even, so when it came time to replace it I just got a plain jane Samsung and an iPod Touch.
It's nice to have a phone with a decent battery life again, too.
Were the planes holding hands? I would hazard to guess that "two military planes escorting a third" would look fairly similar to "two military planes in close pursuit of a third", particularly to the untrained eye, Sherlock.
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Assuming it's true, the Pacific is 65.3 million square miles, so it would be a tenth of the size of the ocean it's in. Yeah, that still seems pretty ridiculous.
Wikipedia has it at approximately twice the size of Texas-- which is 268,820 square miles-- so "roughly the size of Alaska" sounds like the proper scale.
What sucks is that I can't get a fucking 1/4" to 1/8" headphone adapter at Best Buy, even though they sell all kinds of devices and headphones that use both. They sent me to Radio Shack, but even then the only version of the adapter I could find was the gold-plated one. Still, it beats having to mail-order it; I, too, hope Radio Shack doesn't disappear.
Loving a business that does employ you is a good way to end up heartbroken.
But in America, bigger is better, and 130 is clearly bigger than 54...
It also seems to depend on the popularity of the game. GS always had a ton of copies of Gears of War, but I didn't see their used copies drop below $50 until the month GoW2 came out (which is foolish, really, because at that point I just bought GoW2 instead, which is a smaller profit margin for GS).
I would love to look at the fonts, but that craigmod page crashed Safari (4.0.2) three times in a row. It looks like the font-face is definitively the reason for the crashes (the thread crashed on WebCore::FontCache::getFontData). I guess on the bright side I now know how to reliably crash Safari.
Man, 10.0 and 10.1 were entirely different beasts. 10.1 was a mighty leap forward.
It doesn't have ringtones...
My phone makes phone calls, and I love it to death.
You should really upgrade to a newer model. They can receive calls now, too!
Man, I see in Slashdot the smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation fighting encryption, cracking protection; slaves with DRM collars. Advertising has us chasing movies and music, using formats we hate so we can watch movies we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose of place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a format war; our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised by technology to believe that one day we would have universal formats, backwards compatibility, and ease of use. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
"Sometimes the thing that you think isn't a scam, is a scam, and the thing that you think is a scam, isn't a scam at all. And sometimes that, itself, is the scam! So as you can see, things can be pretty tricky out there for consumers."
"And for reporters!"
The power grid infrastructure could collapse and he would still have power, thus causing his home to be overrun by power-hungry mutant zombies... Always a risk, indeed.
Also note quirksmode's caveat:
"The compatibility information above is only for the HTML5 features I tested; they do not necessarily say anything about the browsers' overall HTML5 support. The number of tests will slowly expand."
Here's the details on which browsers support what parts of the new features of HTML5 thus far: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/html5.html.
According to quirksmode, it appears that Safari 4.0 has the most complete support, followed by FF 3.5b and IE8. Chrome and Opera do not appear to, at least as far as supporting the new features is concerned.
My suggestion is to not listen to the Clear Channel stations-- maybe find a good college station instead-- and don't read Spin or Rolling Stone for musical advice ("The Rise of Lady GaGa"? Seriously, RS?), but pick up something like Magnet, instead, for starters. There is a ton of great music being made, it just takes more work to separate the wheat from the chaff. Bands have free mp3s all over the internet, download a bunch of 'em and see what grows on you, or just use Pandora to help you find new things based on what you know you like.
Where did you set the DNS? At the router? Because I, too, am in Portland. I had set my router to point to OpenDNS (two different IPs) and one day about a year ago it stopped working. The only site I could reach was comcast.com. The problem persisted until I finally tracked it down to DNS and reset my router to the Comcast DNS servers.
I like physical keys. Because they actually work.
Except that physical keys can physically break, too.
You've always been able to get apps by searching around a bit for Windows Mobile based phones, and probably for others as well, so the App Store idea is just collecting and monetizing them.
Nah, you've always been able to pay for apps for Win Mobile. So, it's not about monetizing. The biggest problem I found when looking for Win Mobile apps was that it even if you did manage to find the ad-filled webpage that had the file, there was generally no way to distinguish, say, two SSH clients from one another, so you just have to install them both and hope that one of them doesn't fuck up your phone.
Blockbuster and Hollywood Video (and, presumably, other movie rental venues) pay the movie studios a per-rental fee which is based on the age and the popularity of the title. When they then sell the movie used, a portion of that, again, goes to the movie studios.
There was a lawsuit filed by the studios against Hollywood Video about seven or eight years back claiming that they hadn't paid their cut adequately. The funny thing was that, in the resulting audit, it turns out that they had actually overpaid and the studios needed to compensate them.
Just this weekend, I heard a story about a guy who worked some tech support position and wouldn't eat anything all day, but then would go and have two McDonald's value meals and scarf them down, and that was all he would eat, pretty much every day.
He was a skinny guy with a high metabolism, but he woke up one morning and found that he couldn't move; his muscles wouldn't work. Slowly, very slowly, over the next couple of hours, he managed to reach his phone and call the ambulance. He apparently had a huge potassium deficiency and was lucky that his heart didn't stop.
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I'll give my classic example (still not fixed), in iTunes:
Insert a CD
It should "just work" and start ripping the CD, but it doesn't.
Look for an error message.. there is none.
Search the menus, look for a button, nope, there's no way to actually *tell* iTunes that you want it to rip the CD.
etc.
I had this problem the other day. As it turns out, Parallels was running in the background and XP mounted the CD first. It took me entirely too long to figure out what the fuck had happened.
Outside of Megan Fox, I always thought that the "Transformers" (and, similarly, "G.I. Joe") movies were more geared at the 8-12 year-old crowd. I would have probably loved the first "Transformers" at that age; now, it seems banal and full of jump-cuts and explosions.
Nothing against explosions, mind you.
Yeah, the post just above yours does mention that once bottled, it doesn't age further. The flavor generally comes from the barrels themselves; just as an example, Jameson's uses previously-used port, sherry, and bourbon barrels to age their whiskey, whereas those original barrel occupants got their flavor and character depending on the wood used.
In a similar vein, I find that I prefer Johnnie Walker Red to any of their more aged stuff.
Then you certainly already know that, in general, it certainly is Scotch and Canadian "whisky" but American and Irish whiskeys are spelled with that pesky extra "e". I should know, I've been to Ireland (once) *and* America and I'm still too drunk to even find a map.
Amen. I got tired of having a phone that freezes up. Windows Mobile made me too paranoid to get an iPhone, even, so when it came time to replace it I just got a plain jane Samsung and an iPod Touch.
It's nice to have a phone with a decent battery life again, too.
Were the planes holding hands? I would hazard to guess that "two military planes escorting a third" would look fairly similar to "two military planes in close pursuit of a third", particularly to the untrained eye, Sherlock.