When I was a kid, I had a dog that could follow a parabolic trajectory.
My dog, too. No matter how many times I threw her up in the air, off a roof, out of a moving car, whatever.... parabolic arc. Apparently, Peanuts the poodle was not immune to gravitation and Newtonian conservation of energy.
She was a good dog. Except for resisting being picked up. I guess she figure out pretty quick you are less likely to end up flying in a perfect conic section path if no one can raise your gravitational potential above local ground state. A physics genius, Peanuts.
Pay no attention to how well overall Wikipedia is erroneously perceived to actually work.
FTFY. Wikipedia's over the hump. Its accuracy is irrelevant to its popularity and mindshare in the web info market. It would take a continuous train of grievous and gratuitous contrafactuality, plus the unlikely genesis of a viable alternative, to make it less popular. And after all, modern culture is always about popularity.
An unmodified stock top-of-the-line card could also be 24 hours away from failure. I've RMA'd enough video cards to know that stock or OC'd, it's a crapshoot. The power design issue is really the only one which would give me pause.
As to replacing the card "prematurely", LOL. This is an enthusiast card. The customer demographic replaces their video HW more often than they change underwear! Long-term survival is a non-issue. If unlocking shaves two years off a three -year life expectancy, that still leaves several months of viable service life before it's ripped out and binned as "obsolete ".
If I'm pointing at a sign at a train station next to a yellow line, and it says "please not to mock the lizard", then I'm going to assume it's garbage. If it says "please to stand backward of yellow line" then I get the gist of what it is saying.
When the 4:45 Express Lizard comes barreling through the station, you'll understand "not to mock the lizard" as you get sucked off the platform and chopped into messy Lizard Chow beneath its steel talons.
Although, I suppose "stand backward of yellow line" would probably suffice.
If anyone is inclined to argue that "states" are supposed to be sovereign, I'd point out that argument was comprehensively lost 145 years ago. Continuing to argue is just dickish pedantry.
if anyone at Sony was even occasionally looking for this sort of thing
I'm sure you meant "Nintendo". It would be surprising for Sony to be safeguarding Nintendo's intellectual property.
I'm rather surprised Nintendo hasn't reacted. They have a reputation for kinder, gentler customer relations than Sony, but it was always my impression they would explode into a flurry of razor-sharp legal teeth if you intrude on their copyrights and trademarks.
Unless someone put a dial-in modem or telnet-to-serial converter on the maintenance port. You know, for ease of oh-dark-thirty troubleshooting? I mean, rapid response to late-night network trouble calls.
I've been a sysadmin at a largish installation. Maintenance modems aren't rare. You might hope the out-of-band command channels would be at least as secure as the in-band ones.
It's kind of a reverse "tragedy of the commons". It has a name too- and hard data showing that you are much more likely get help from one person than from a group- because in a group, everyone is waiting for someone else to go first.
Whereas Tomacco is both. And delicious. Addictively, addictively, delicious. Well, ok, not delicious. Pretty disgusting. But addictively, addictively, disgusting. And probably susceptible to TMV, as well. Darn the luck.
Juries decide facts. ("Did he sell marijuana, as the prosecution asserts?") Judges decide law. ("Is selling marijuana actually against the law, as the prosecution asserts?") Questions of law, as decided by a judge, shape the way the facts can be presented and decided.
That's why "jury nullification" is a horror to those inside the system. It breaks the separation of law and fact. The jury arrogates itself to decide questions of law by disregarding their given duty to decide facts. ("I don't care whether he sold marijuana; I don't think it should be illegal.")
I'm not saying it's a good system, or a bad one. It's just an ancient one, and usually seems to work. It breaks down, most noticeably, when a body of law which is subjectively bad is supported by judicial experts (judges, etc.) and jurors are forced to decide cases on the basis of that. Injustices, codified in law, are perpetuated. But the alternative is judicial mob rule, where any law can be overridden by "12 jurors good and true", even if the "good and true" jurors are corrupt, or horribly bigoted, or suggestible beyond belief and swayed by one juror with a brain and an agenda.
No, IANAL. I'm sure an actual practitioner would express the nuances and details much better than I. But this is my generalized understanding of it.
Sheesh. Where have you been? Correlation is always causation.
It's the Modern Way to shift responsibility the addiction, rather than the addict. It's what gave us our War on Drugs. (I suppose the War on Druggies wouldn't make such a good election campaign platform, eh?)
So, at some point, some prominent socially-aware journalist will expose the scourge of addictive, violent video games and we'll have the War on Those too.
Some of us, trying to level 80s, are running into shared-spawn quest areas with huge kill competition. For instance, the initial Vashj'ir quests. I hop on the boat leaving from Orgrimmar, travel over the sea, and promptly get shipwrecked by some hideous tentacle beast and find myself trapped with about 50 other Hordies in the shrinking trapped air bubble of our inverted ship. Did I mention I'm in a PvP server, and by some amazing stroke of luck the Alliance's ship arrived in our area at exactly the same time, and got wrecked at the same time?
And now 50 Hordies and 50 Allys have to compete for mobs and quest items, and a few of us have figured out the best way to get ahead is to kill the guys on the other side. So much hilarity ensues.
Ahhh. It definitely has the play feel of Classic WoW. I guess I've missed it.
You do realize that unless the suffix part after micro- or nano- is an SI unit, micro- simply means "small" and "nano-" simply means "dwarf"? Only the SI framework applies a powers-of-ten interpretation of those prefixes.
Naive examination of grade-school vocabulary bears this out. No microscope is capable of 1,000,000 x magnification. (Electron microscopes don't count. Optical microscopes existed long before, and are the canonical example.)
I'm an American. I have any freedom not specifically prohibited by duly enacted law, in concordance with the United States Constitution. I presume nothing.
And not all laws are Constitutional, and I retain those rights which would otherwise by unlawfully restrained.
The right to travel by any means I can afford is a fundamental right. No less than my right to speak by any technology I have access to, or the right to worship at any altar or assembly I choose.
Did you just post a malware distribution URL? As a live href?
I hope that was munged, edited, or otherwise neutralized. Otherwise, that was reckless.
Also, as evidenced by your partially-anonymized email header, the spam zombie server seems to be associated with Walgreens. Nice piece of malware intel, there.
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When I was a kid, I had a dog that could follow a parabolic trajectory.
My dog, too. No matter how many times I threw her up in the air, off a roof, out of a moving car, whatever.... parabolic arc. Apparently, Peanuts the poodle was not immune to gravitation and Newtonian conservation of energy.
She was a good dog. Except for resisting being picked up. I guess she figure out pretty quick you are less likely to end up flying in a perfect conic section path if no one can raise your gravitational potential above local ground state. A physics genius, Peanuts.
Pay no attention to how well overall Wikipedia is erroneously perceived to actually work.
FTFY. Wikipedia's over the hump. Its accuracy is irrelevant to its popularity and mindshare in the web info market. It would take a continuous train of grievous and gratuitous contrafactuality, plus the unlikely genesis of a viable alternative, to make it less popular. And after all, modern culture is always about popularity.
NO KILL I
Dammit, Slashdot, I'm a poster, not a doctor. It's not my fault that damn Horta is yelling.
An unmodified stock top-of-the-line card could also be 24 hours away from failure. I've RMA'd enough video cards to know that stock or OC'd, it's a crapshoot. The power design issue is really the only one which would give me pause.
As to replacing the card "prematurely", LOL. This is an enthusiast card. The customer demographic replaces their video HW more often than they change underwear! Long-term survival is a non-issue. If unlocking shaves two years off a three -year life expectancy, that still leaves several months of viable service life before it's ripped out and binned as "obsolete ".
If we also count people who know two or more languages, I'm betting English would be far more than 760 million.
I suspect you're probably counting a few tens of millions of people who believe they speak or write English, but really, REALLY don't.
If I'm pointing at a sign at a train station next to a yellow line, and it says "please not to mock the lizard", then I'm going to assume it's garbage. If it says "please to stand backward of yellow line" then I get the gist of what it is saying.
When the 4:45 Express Lizard comes barreling through the station, you'll understand "not to mock the lizard" as you get sucked off the platform and chopped into messy Lizard Chow beneath its steel talons.
Although, I suppose "stand backward of yellow line" would probably suffice.
We have seen the Four Horsemen of the Patentpocypse!
We're doomed, DOOMED, as soon as they figure out their assignments within the group. They all want to be Conquest, and none of them want to be Famine.
or "states" in the generic geopolitical sense.
If anyone is inclined to argue that "states" are supposed to be sovereign, I'd point out that argument was comprehensively lost 145 years ago. Continuing to argue is just dickish pedantry.
if anyone at Sony was even occasionally looking for this sort of thing
I'm sure you meant "Nintendo". It would be surprising for Sony to be safeguarding Nintendo's intellectual property.
I'm rather surprised Nintendo hasn't reacted. They have a reputation for kinder, gentler customer relations than Sony, but it was always my impression they would explode into a flurry of razor-sharp legal teeth if you intrude on their copyrights and trademarks.
Unless someone put a dial-in modem or telnet-to-serial converter on the maintenance port. You know, for ease of oh-dark-thirty troubleshooting? I mean, rapid response to late-night network trouble calls.
I've been a sysadmin at a largish installation. Maintenance modems aren't rare. You might hope the out-of-band command channels would be at least as secure as the in-band ones.
Oh, yeah, that 80s group... "Admin (Not Admin)". I loved that song.
It's kind of a reverse "tragedy of the commons". It has a name too- and hard data showing that you are much more likely get help from one person than from a group- because in a group, everyone is waiting for someone else to go first.
Diffusion of responsibility
--Dark Helmet
Hah! Shows how much you know! My luggage combination is nothing like that!
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WTF? Did Chrome just change my luggage combo?
Tomatoes are not vegetables either.
Whereas Tomacco is both. And delicious. Addictively, addictively, delicious. Well, ok, not delicious. Pretty disgusting. But addictively, addictively, disgusting. And probably susceptible to TMV, as well. Darn the luck.
Welcome to the Anglo-American common law system.
Juries decide facts. ("Did he sell marijuana, as the prosecution asserts?") Judges decide law. ("Is selling marijuana actually against the law, as the prosecution asserts?") Questions of law, as decided by a judge, shape the way the facts can be presented and decided.
That's why "jury nullification" is a horror to those inside the system. It breaks the separation of law and fact. The jury arrogates itself to decide questions of law by disregarding their given duty to decide facts. ("I don't care whether he sold marijuana; I don't think it should be illegal.")
I'm not saying it's a good system, or a bad one. It's just an ancient one, and usually seems to work. It breaks down, most noticeably, when a body of law which is subjectively bad is supported by judicial experts (judges, etc.) and jurors are forced to decide cases on the basis of that. Injustices, codified in law, are perpetuated. But the alternative is judicial mob rule, where any law can be overridden by "12 jurors good and true", even if the "good and true" jurors are corrupt, or horribly bigoted, or suggestible beyond belief and swayed by one juror with a brain and an agenda.
No, IANAL. I'm sure an actual practitioner would express the nuances and details much better than I. But this is my generalized understanding of it.
Ah, the real-world genesis of the Bolo. Or the Ogre, if you prefer.
Sheesh. Where have you been? Correlation is always causation.
It's the Modern Way to shift responsibility the addiction, rather than the addict. It's what gave us our War on Drugs. (I suppose the War on Druggies wouldn't make such a good election campaign platform, eh?)
So, at some point, some prominent socially-aware journalist will expose the scourge of addictive, violent video games and we'll have the War on Those too.
Some of us, trying to level 80s, are running into shared-spawn quest areas with huge kill competition. For instance, the initial Vashj'ir quests. I hop on the boat leaving from Orgrimmar, travel over the sea, and promptly get shipwrecked by some hideous tentacle beast and find myself trapped with about 50 other Hordies in the shrinking trapped air bubble of our inverted ship. Did I mention I'm in a PvP server, and by some amazing stroke of luck the Alliance's ship arrived in our area at exactly the same time, and got wrecked at the same time?
And now 50 Hordies and 50 Allys have to compete for mobs and quest items, and a few of us have figured out the best way to get ahead is to kill the guys on the other side. So much hilarity ensues.
Ahhh. It definitely has the play feel of Classic WoW. I guess I've missed it.
ObStarTrek reference:
Think Ferengi. Altruism is criminal, or insane, or both. Not turning a profit on any transaction is Against The Ferengi Way.
That's the *AA for you.
You do realize that unless the suffix part after micro- or nano- is an SI unit, micro- simply means "small" and "nano-" simply means "dwarf"? Only the SI framework applies a powers-of-ten interpretation of those prefixes.
Naive examination of grade-school vocabulary bears this out. No microscope is capable of 1,000,000 x magnification. (Electron microscopes don't count. Optical microscopes existed long before, and are the canonical example.)
Pedantry adds value when it's factually correct.
Seriously. Don't presume freedoms you don't have.
I'm an American. I have any freedom not specifically prohibited by duly enacted law, in concordance with the United States Constitution. I presume nothing.
And not all laws are Constitutional, and I retain those rights which would otherwise by unlawfully restrained.
The right to travel by any means I can afford is a fundamental right. No less than my right to speak by any technology I have access to, or the right to worship at any altar or assembly I choose.
but no explicit right to privacy.
There doesn't have to be.
You can also solve that problem by making sure no one loves you and you love no one.
I think that's GPP's approach.
Did you just post a malware distribution URL? As a live href?
I hope that was munged, edited, or otherwise neutralized. Otherwise, that was reckless.
Also, as evidenced by your partially-anonymized email header, the spam zombie server seems to be associated with Walgreens. Nice piece of malware intel, there.