Marvel will slowly turn to annoyance as you...have to travel for literally 20 minutes before you do anything
Dude, I'm middle aged; I'm (literally) relieved when I've got a long multipoint flightpath coming up. My bladder isn't what it used to be!
It's like what TV commercials used to be, before TiVo and the like. The only problem is if you get delayed IRL longer than the flight, and you're flying into a PvP battlezone ("Tarren Mill is under attack!"). So you come back to a ghost. But PvP death isn't that annoying anyways.
The only new worldview MMORPG'ing has provided me is looking up at the 3 level 60 Alliance gankers who just obliterated me for having the audacity to be Horde in a disputed zone.
My mistake, I had confused freedom of travel as being about direct or indirect prohibitions on travelling. I had not appreicated the necessary connection with access to personal hygiene and grooming products.
That doesn't speak well of the value you put on personal hygiene, then, does it?
Oops, you're right - it is in the last paragraph of the article. I sorta stopped after I passed the portion I was referring to, primarily out of disgust.
Disgust may still be indicated. Yes, true, you can get the tracks in ITMS. But if you paid good money for the S00per-d00per-audio-video-DVD-of-doom (and presumably therefore paid for your "licensed right to the copyrighted content" thereon), do you get the ITMS downloads for free? Or are you gonna pay for them again at the usual ITMS per-track or per-album prices?
Thanks, NOT! Audio CDs work for me, just fine, for what little music is in the distribution machine that attacts me.. I don't feel like paying for downloads, and a bit of physical Redbook-format media scratches my itch just fine.
"Accidentally deleted" probably means "we had a hardware failure and we're too cheap to recover everything".
Actually, "Accidentally deleted" means "wiped the live disk array instead of the new disk array we were going to migrate on to." The Register has a brief writeup.
System Administrator Lesson 14: Shared consoles and remote administration are convenient, especially for wiping the wrong system. Check system ID before hitting enter!"
Take a seat, Bucko. I'm about to drop a bombshell on your psychic landscape.
Ready?
Here it comes:
Sorting of timestamps in computer data is actually not important, in the entire domain of "things people do with dates". Ask 100 people on the street, or a thousand; I betcha a grillion dollars (or euros, or maybe 100 times that many yen, or 10,000 times that many lire) that "sorting timestamps in my computer" won't be in the top ten. Or top 1000.
You're a software developer, aren't you? The mental habit of assuming the needs of the computer outweigh the needs of the user is distinctive. Sadly, many coders never outgrow it, as evidenced by most user interface design.
People write dates the way they customarily do. It makes a programmer's job harder, but that's just the way it is. Dates written by the computer, for the use of the computer (for instance, computer sorting of computer logs)--fine, use the computer-friendly date format. Joe Normaluser won't be looking at those dates anyways. But arguing the superiority of one date format over the other on the basis of the convenience to the computer is weak.
Nope, in the US, if you asked what time it was, you would most likely get the answer "three-twenty".
Occasionally you'll get it the way you mentioned (twenty after three), but, most of the time I hear it hour-minute.
And that raises a couple of interesting points.
Brevity. "Three twenty" is less of a mouthful than "Twenty past three". "August 8th, 2006" is somewhat shorter than "The 8th of August, 2006" (no possessives or articles; their function is implied in the shorter pharaseology.) Are we Americans hasty?
The "decline" of the analog clock. Does anyone in the US say "A quarter till 4 PM?" A quarter of a what? The notion of an hour as a divisible entity (vice an integral entity, accompanied by an integral entity called the minute) is most intuitive if you can see the quarter-circle of the full-circle hour, as marked by the "big hand". I'm middle-aged; I was taught to read the classic analog clock, but now I have to think about it because the digital "hour:minute" format dominates. I wonder if my babies, as they grow up, will be taught in school to read analog clock faces at all? (I'll see to it that they learn, but I wonder if it won't fall out of public school curriculum.)
The format of shortcut dates in the US verus elsewhere. I think it matches the syntax of the abbreviated US spoken date. That's speculation, but I find it fascinating that some of our English correspondents in this topic tend to speak out dates in ISO (or traditional European) numerical date format order, even if it requires the use of syntactic glue words. ("the 8th of August, 2006." I guess you could drop the glue, but it would sound funny and a bit spastic to me. But maybe that's how we 'merkans look to y'all anyways.)
So, what of the notable US exception, the Fourth of July? I think it stopped being just a date a long time ago. If, God forfend, the government here in the US tries to make this holiday another "federally observed on the Monday of the week it falls on" holiday, it'll still be called "The Fourth of July" even if it's observed on the 30th of June.
The Supreme Court of the US decided that you have an expectation of privacy when using a land-line phone, and a court order is required to allow people to violate that right of privacy.
But they ruled that you have no expectation of privacy when using a cordless phone (and by implication a cell-phone). As it is a transmitter, using the public airwaves.
(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter any person who - (a) intentionally intercepts, endeavors to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept, any wire, oral, or electronic communication; ... shall be punished as provided in subsection (4) or shall be subject to suit as provided in subsection (5).
Now, the only recent Supreme Court action regarding this part of federal law is Bartnicki et al. v. Vopper. My reading of this case affirms that intentional unauthorized interception of communications (in this case, cell phone) is unlawful. The case simply permitted the deliberate disclosure of information garnered through unlawful interception, when the person doing the interception was anonymous and not provably connected to the person doing the disclosure. That ruling weakened sections (c) and (d) of the code in question:
(c) intentionally discloses, or endeavors to disclose, to any other person the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic communication, knowing or having reason to know that the information was obtained through the interception of a wire, oral, or electronic communication in violation of this subsection; (d) intentionally uses, or endeavors to use, the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic communication, knowing or having reason to know that the information was obtained through the interception of a wire, oral, or electronic communication in violation of this subsection; or
So, that's what my "no legal library, no research assistants, no paralegals" research turned up. Do you have something more specific, relevant, and contrary?
Speaking of which, if Joe Six Pack sees two "linksys" in his available networks, how does he know which one is his?
Does it matter? Odds, are, neither are using WPA or WEP. I'd guess if Ol' Joe is smart enough to wipe the drool from his chin, he'll pick the WAN with the strongest signal strength. Otherwise, the one his mouse pointer is closest to. And it'll work, because both Joe and his neighbor Bob are both clueless troglodytes.
You have to admit, hearing "Nuclear launch detected" will be a much more personally significant experience in an MMO setting. In Starcraft, there's the flurry of high-level detector activity to find and kill the Ghost, but if you're IN the target zone priority #1 becomes getting the hell outta there (or covering up, or shielding, or maybe picking the right emote for your final act of defiance).
I could swear you were posting in English...those words make sense as English, one at a time... but strung together like that, they're incomprehensible.
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Marvel will slowly turn to annoyance as you...have to travel for literally 20 minutes before you do anything
Dude, I'm middle aged; I'm (literally) relieved when I've got a long multipoint flightpath coming up. My bladder isn't what it used to be!
It's like what TV commercials used to be, before TiVo and the like. The only problem is if you get delayed IRL longer than the flight, and you're flying into a PvP battlezone ("Tarren Mill is under attack!"). So you come back to a ghost. But PvP death isn't that annoying anyways.
The only new worldview MMORPG'ing has provided me is looking up at the 3 level 60 Alliance gankers who just obliterated me for having the audacity to be Horde in a disputed zone.
"Sociability", indeed.
liberal left coast, dopey, backward "heartland" full of violent, inbred simpletons, and liberal right coast.
So, whatcher sayin', is, that yer movin' to Kansas?
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
That doesn't speak well of the value you put on personal hygiene, then, does it?
Sorry. Do you have a plan "B"?
Sounds like a fine BLAZEMONGER product.
I actually had one guy decline a group invite because he was holding our for someone who would make him look good.
In the vernacular, lolololol!
They also own a Boeing 767, so I'd say the Prius is more of an environmental statement
I think the 767 is an environmental statement, though not one they intended. The Prius is more along the lines of PR.
You've been reading Involution Ocean again, haven't you?
Oops, you're right - it is in the last paragraph of the article. I sorta stopped after I passed the portion I was referring to, primarily out of disgust.
Disgust may still be indicated. Yes, true, you can get the tracks in ITMS. But if you paid good money for the S00per-d00per-audio-video-DVD-of-doom (and presumably therefore paid for your "licensed right to the copyrighted content" thereon), do you get the ITMS downloads for free? Or are you gonna pay for them again at the usual ITMS per-track or per-album prices?
Thanks, NOT! Audio CDs work for me, just fine, for what little music is in the distribution machine that attacts me.. I don't feel like paying for downloads, and a bit of physical Redbook-format media scratches my itch just fine.
"Accidentally deleted" probably means "we had a hardware failure and we're too cheap to recover everything".
Actually, "Accidentally deleted" means "wiped the live disk array instead of the new disk array we were going to migrate on to." The Register has a brief writeup.
System Administrator Lesson 14: Shared consoles and remote administration are convenient, especially for wiping the wrong system. Check system ID before hitting enter!"
The convergence of HHGG and Wikipedia is a bit...well...what's the diametric opposite of "ironic"? We need a word that means "Poignantly appropriate".
Anyways, all we need to do is modify the "jigsaw globe" logo at http://wikipedia.org/ into the "Don't Panic" face and our mission will be complete.
NB: I'm not advocating vandalizing anything. It's just a joke.
Crap. We need a "<disclaimer>" tag.
Take a seat, Bucko. I'm about to drop a bombshell on your psychic landscape.
Ready?
Here it comes:
Sorting of timestamps in computer data is actually not important, in the entire domain of "things people do with dates". Ask 100 people on the street, or a thousand; I betcha a grillion dollars (or euros, or maybe 100 times that many yen, or 10,000 times that many lire) that "sorting timestamps in my computer" won't be in the top ten. Or top 1000.
You're a software developer, aren't you? The mental habit of assuming the needs of the computer outweigh the needs of the user is distinctive. Sadly, many coders never outgrow it, as evidenced by most user interface design.
People write dates the way they customarily do. It makes a programmer's job harder, but that's just the way it is. Dates written by the computer, for the use of the computer (for instance, computer sorting of computer logs)--fine, use the computer-friendly date format. Joe Normaluser won't be looking at those dates anyways. But arguing the superiority of one date format over the other on the basis of the convenience to the computer is weak.
Nope, in the US, if you asked what time it was, you would most likely get the answer "three-twenty".
Occasionally you'll get it the way you mentioned (twenty after three), but, most of the time I hear it hour-minute.
And that raises a couple of interesting points.
If gravity can make mortally wounded, wildfire-weakened skyscrapers collapse, the terrorists have already won.
The Supreme Court of the US decided that you have an expectation of privacy when using a land-line phone, and a court order is required to allow people to violate that right of privacy.
But they ruled that you have no expectation of privacy when using a cordless phone (and by implication a cell-phone). As it is a transmitter, using the public airwaves.
Really? Do you have a citation?
IANAL also, but I can read. 18 USC, Section 2511, states:
Now, the only recent Supreme Court action regarding this part of federal law is Bartnicki et al. v. Vopper. My reading of this case affirms that intentional unauthorized interception of communications (in this case, cell phone) is unlawful. The case simply permitted the deliberate disclosure of information garnered through unlawful interception, when the person doing the interception was anonymous and not provably connected to the person doing the disclosure. That ruling weakened sections (c) and (d) of the code in question:
So, that's what my "no legal library, no research assistants, no paralegals" research turned up. Do you have something more specific, relevant, and contrary?
Speaking of which, if Joe Six Pack sees two "linksys" in his available networks, how does he know which one is his?
Does it matter? Odds, are, neither are using WPA or WEP. I'd guess if Ol' Joe is smart enough to wipe the drool from his chin, he'll pick the WAN with the strongest signal strength. Otherwise, the one his mouse pointer is closest to. And it'll work, because both Joe and his neighbor Bob are both clueless troglodytes.
World. Of. Starcraft.
You have to admit, hearing "Nuclear launch detected" will be a much more personally significant experience in an MMO setting. In Starcraft, there's the flurry of high-level detector activity to find and kill the Ghost, but if you're IN the target zone priority #1 becomes getting the hell outta there (or covering up, or shielding, or maybe picking the right emote for your final act of defiance).
One word: Battletech
I could swear you were posting in English...those words make sense as English, one at a time... but strung together like that, they're incomprehensible.
This isn't exactly brain surgery, yet the fellow at a PR agency called Rocket Science managed to violate Rule #1
If it had been rocket science, they may have gotten it right.
to say nothing about being completely impossible to enforce globally
National sovereignty. How quaint.
YRO would be too suspicious. Let's not make their jobs easier, eh?
Hey, I work with some of those. DBAs are funny that way, heh.
Oh, you meant "Posters". Sorry, my bad.