Which would repel all the dust of the same charge, but attract the rest. Plus you've added the possibility that something could short across this wire grid and drain the battery real quick.
Apple defines "dead battery" as "holds less than 50% of its original charge" according to this.
Also, for what its worth, you can still buy the AppleCare warranty extension as long as you're under warranty (and possibly even if you're not, I'm not entirely sure). Given that the complaints that surface about the 3rd Gen battery were that it started really losing capacity at the 18-month mark, it might be worth it.
Inside of warranty, you can send it back to Apple and have it replaced for free. Outside of warranty, you can have it replaced by Apple for $99 or you could do it yourself with a bit of technical know-how for less than half that price.
By analogy with the distinction between grass and astroturf (artificial grass used on football fields), it denotes a fake "grass-roots" campaign. That is, it gives the appearance of there being a movement of normal, everyday citizens concerned about an issue, while it is in fact wholly manufactured by corporate propoganda.
It's not the punching, it's the killing. You may say he doesn't kill the bad guys, but that's how it looks to my kid.
If your kid thinks people disappear when they die, talk to your kid. And you didn't answer the question: What did you expect this Spider-Man game to be about? Why did you let a label do the thinking for you? If you're so concerned about violence, why did you ignore the fact that the descriptor that went along with the rating on the Spider-Man game indicated that it contained violence?
Ah, but to trigger your remote control I have to notice Falwell; ergo, it doesn't meet the spec.
What are you doing that you're watching the TV but don't notice whats on it? Or do you mean to say that you're leaving your child to watch the TV unsupervised, and want a box to do the parenting for you?
I don't need a "M" rating on the box to tell me games like Max Payne and Halo are not for kids - the cover art tells me that. Same with "NC-17" movies. When an "E" rating means it may not be suitable for kids, so I have to preview it anyway, it's worthless to me as a parent.
You're obviously never going to have to preview stuff that you already is know is unsuitable, but you're obviously always going to have to preview stuff that claims to be suitable. That not uselessness, that's the best they can do; they don't have a magic mind-reading device that can tell them what you consider appropriate for your kids, all they can do is put on a label that says "In our opinion this is ok". You're always going to have to verify that yourself, be it movies or games or whatever; do you really expect that they could tailor their ratings to your particular set of concerns? Why did you let some half-inch white square override your better judgement? You know the basic premise of Spider-Man, no? Or did you think you were buying Spider-Man and the Happy Fun Tea-Time?
Of course, I was playing Contra when I was 5 and turned out fine, so I'm having trouble seeing why you're up in arms about Spider-Man punching someone in the first place.
Frankly, I'm not interested in any rating system that isn't so finely grained that I can tell the TV to block Jerry Falwell and allow Dr. Ruth. Hell, I'd pay $1000 for a device that insured I'd never have to see Jerry Falwell again!
I've got this amazing new invention which I call a remote control. I'll sell it to you for $500.
that came with the game system. It may will indicate that the system should not be used, period, by anyone who suffers from photosensitive seizures. For instance, the Playstation 2 manual (available here) clearly states on page 2:
WARNING: READ BEFORE USING YOUR PLAYSTATION(R)2
COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.
A very small percentage of individuals may experience epileptic seizures
when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights. Exposure to
certain patterns or backgrounds on a television screen or while playing
video games, including games played on the PlayStation 2 console, may
induce an epileptic seizure in these individuals. Certain conditions may
induce previously undetected epileptic symptoms even in persons who
have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy. If you, or anyone in your family,
has an epileptic condition, consult your physician prior to playing. If you
experience any of the following symptoms while playing a video game -
dizziness, altered vision, eye or muscle twitches, loss of awareness,
disorientation, any involuntary movement, or convulsions - IMMEDIATELY
discontinue use and consult your physician before resuming play
Moral of the story: Don't assume that merely because the game manual does not repeat this warning that the game is safe for your child; any game (indeed, anything that flashes light, including your TV when it is not being used by the game system) can trigger a seizure.
I'm not entirely convinced that MtG players are so much "Athletes of the Mind" as "Athletes of the Wallet"...
Obviously the most expensive deck isn't a guarantee of a win, but it will let you place well. How is that unlike any other sport on earth, though? Team sports (the team that can afford the best players will generally do damn well), bobsledding (He who can afford the best engineered sled will do really well), any sport involving individual strength/speed (he who can afford the latest "one-step ahead of the detection methods" steroid cocktail will probably win), etc, etc?
Aren't professional role players generally called actors? I'm confused...
Magic: The Gathering isn't a role-playing game, it's a competitive card game with definite winning and losing states (utterly unlike most pen-and-paper RPGs). Going pro at magic is thus much more akin to being a professional poker/chess/(other competitive intellectual game of your choice) player than acting, which it shares little if anything in common with.
This was actually a pretty good illustration of why Wikipedia works. It's easy to vandilize, but it's even easier to fix it again. Couple that with the fact that there's absolutely no challenge in trolling it and very few people end up trying to wreck it. There's no fun in it.
Indeed, the fact that they are so utterly, dogmatically faithful to the books is why I think they have, so far, been horrible movies but good books. The filmmaker has shown no understanding that what makes a great movie and what makes a great book are by no means equal sets.
1) Build your site name into the captcha (something like "Foo.com: 123456"). It won't stop things dead, but it would confuse/make suspicious enough people that the spammers get less than 100% of the captchas they highjack translated.
2) Do novel things with your captchs: use two (or N) captchas, making the person signing up combine the info in them. I imagine that the spammers are too lazy to customize the highjack code to deal with a non-standard use of captchs like this.
3) Have your captcha encode a message (like "select the apple") and present a list of random pictures, one of which, when clicked, confirms the capthca. Again, the spammers could download all the pictures, but its non-standard and would need seperate software targetting your specific site.
I think they'd just prefer it if it killed more people, and maybe did some nasty things to the atmosphere while it was at it. That way they'd feel more familiar and comfortable with it.
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Which would repel all the dust of the same charge, but attract the rest. Plus you've added the possibility that something could short across this wire grid and drain the battery real quick.
The proponents of the latter tend to leave the dash out when typing on computers.
Words like "Obasan" must be tons of fun, then.
Yup.
Apple defines "dead battery" as "holds less than 50% of its original charge" according to this.
Also, for what its worth, you can still buy the AppleCare warranty extension as long as you're under warranty (and possibly even if you're not, I'm not entirely sure). Given that the complaints that surface about the 3rd Gen battery were that it started really losing capacity at the 18-month mark, it might be worth it.
iPod's battery isn't user-serviceable if you want to keep your warranty.
If it's under warranty, the battery replacement is free, so why would you want to crack it open yourself, anyways?
User servicable in what sense?
Inside of warranty, you can send it back to Apple and have it replaced for free. Outside of warranty, you can have it replaced by Apple for $99 or you could do it yourself with a bit of technical know-how for less than half that price.
They're by no means meant to be "disposable".
They still make games for the PS2.
can we really call it a PlayStation???
Yeah, but won't people accuse Sony of being "Kiddy" if they call it a PlayMobile?
Wouldnt they be protected under parody laws?
Standard IANAL bit.
It would protect him or her from libel, but not copyright or DMCA violations.
that doesn't even include Super Metroid is completely invalid.
By analogy with the distinction between grass and astroturf (artificial grass used on football fields), it denotes a fake "grass-roots" campaign. That is, it gives the appearance of there being a movement of normal, everyday citizens concerned about an issue, while it is in fact wholly manufactured by corporate propoganda.
It's not the punching, it's the killing. You may say he doesn't kill the bad guys, but that's how it looks to my kid.
If your kid thinks people disappear when they die, talk to your kid. And you didn't answer the question: What did you expect this Spider-Man game to be about? Why did you let a label do the thinking for you? If you're so concerned about violence, why did you ignore the fact that the descriptor that went along with the rating on the Spider-Man game indicated that it contained violence?
Ah, but to trigger your remote control I have to notice Falwell; ergo, it doesn't meet the spec.
What are you doing that you're watching the TV but don't notice whats on it? Or do you mean to say that you're leaving your child to watch the TV unsupervised, and want a box to do the parenting for you?
I don't need a "M" rating on the box to tell me games like Max Payne and Halo are not for kids - the cover art tells me that. Same with "NC-17" movies. When an "E" rating means it may not be suitable for kids, so I have to preview it anyway, it's worthless to me as a parent.
You're obviously never going to have to preview stuff that you already is know is unsuitable, but you're obviously always going to have to preview stuff that claims to be suitable. That not uselessness, that's the best they can do; they don't have a magic mind-reading device that can tell them what you consider appropriate for your kids, all they can do is put on a label that says "In our opinion this is ok". You're always going to have to verify that yourself, be it movies or games or whatever; do you really expect that they could tailor their ratings to your particular set of concerns? Why did you let some half-inch white square override your better judgement? You know the basic premise of Spider-Man, no? Or did you think you were buying Spider-Man and the Happy Fun Tea-Time?
Of course, I was playing Contra when I was 5 and turned out fine, so I'm having trouble seeing why you're up in arms about Spider-Man punching someone in the first place.
Frankly, I'm not interested in any rating system that isn't so finely grained that I can tell the TV to block Jerry Falwell and allow Dr. Ruth. Hell, I'd pay $1000 for a device that insured I'd never have to see Jerry Falwell again!
I've got this amazing new invention which I call a remote control. I'll sell it to you for $500.
that came with the game system. It may will indicate that the system should not be used, period, by anyone who suffers from photosensitive seizures. For instance, the Playstation 2 manual (available here) clearly states on page 2:
WARNING: READ BEFORE USING YOUR PLAYSTATION(R)2 COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM. A very small percentage of individuals may experience epileptic seizures when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights. Exposure to certain patterns or backgrounds on a television screen or while playing video games, including games played on the PlayStation 2 console, may induce an epileptic seizure in these individuals. Certain conditions may induce previously undetected epileptic symptoms even in persons who have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy. If you, or anyone in your family, has an epileptic condition, consult your physician prior to playing. If you experience any of the following symptoms while playing a video game - dizziness, altered vision, eye or muscle twitches, loss of awareness, disorientation, any involuntary movement, or convulsions - IMMEDIATELY discontinue use and consult your physician before resuming play
Moral of the story: Don't assume that merely because the game manual does not repeat this warning that the game is safe for your child; any game (indeed, anything that flashes light, including your TV when it is not being used by the game system) can trigger a seizure.
I'm not entirely convinced that MtG players are so much "Athletes of the Mind" as "Athletes of the Wallet"...
Obviously the most expensive deck isn't a guarantee of a win, but it will let you place well. How is that unlike any other sport on earth, though? Team sports (the team that can afford the best players will generally do damn well), bobsledding (He who can afford the best engineered sled will do really well), any sport involving individual strength/speed (he who can afford the latest "one-step ahead of the detection methods" steroid cocktail will probably win), etc, etc?
Aren't professional role players generally called actors? I'm confused...
Magic: The Gathering isn't a role-playing game, it's a competitive card game with definite winning and losing states (utterly unlike most pen-and-paper RPGs). Going pro at magic is thus much more akin to being a professional poker/chess/(other competitive intellectual game of your choice) player than acting, which it shares little if anything in common with.
Why in the world would you ever want to date a woman who chooses people based on the fucking watch they wear?
If you want to date women, you don't have much choice in the matter.
Changelog for the War of 1812 entry
This was actually a pretty good illustration of why Wikipedia works. It's easy to vandilize, but it's even easier to fix it again. Couple that with the fact that there's absolutely no challenge in trolling it and very few people end up trying to wreck it. There's no fun in it.
How do you know that the person running the "third-party" server isn't also secretly one of the other players in the game?
That'd be a pretty good scam, considering how much trust people are apparently willing to blindly put in a faceless third party.
10% off this weekend at their respective online stores (or at least, they are at the canadian versions).
Neither of them seem to be making a big fuss about it, but when you add the product to your cart, the discount will appear.
is the MPEG 4 audio standard.
WMA is a proprietary format that sounds like ass in a can compared to AAC, Ogg, and the better encoded mp3s.
Indeed, the fact that they are so utterly, dogmatically faithful to the books is why I think they have, so far, been horrible movies but good books. The filmmaker has shown no understanding that what makes a great movie and what makes a great book are by no means equal sets.
Thoughts:
1) Build your site name into the captcha (something like "Foo.com: 123456"). It won't stop things dead, but it would confuse/make suspicious enough people that the spammers get less than 100% of the captchas they highjack translated.
2) Do novel things with your captchs: use two (or N) captchas, making the person signing up combine the info in them. I imagine that the spammers are too lazy to customize the highjack code to deal with a non-standard use of captchs like this.
3) Have your captcha encode a message (like "select the apple") and present a list of random pictures, one of which, when clicked, confirms the capthca. Again, the spammers could download all the pictures, but its non-standard and would need seperate software targetting your specific site.
You suck at Haiku
Everyone now sees your shame
How shall I end this?
I think they'd just prefer it if it killed more people, and maybe did some nasty things to the atmosphere while it was at it. That way they'd feel more familiar and comfortable with it.