I know you were modded Funny, but the Japanese actually use the English loanwords "plus driver" and "minus driver". And in many cases, "plus" may even be more accurate, considering there are several other plus-shaped designs (JIS and PoziDriv for example) that are incompatible with Phillips drivers.
Slang for Photographer apparently. Although I've never heard or seen anyone use the term and apparently those writing the summary title thought they were being "hip".
You might have used the regular dictionary instead, and learned that the word "photog" has been in use for over a century. Congrats, you're one of today's Lucky 10,000!
Nope. Clicked straight on through to the first article, and then added my comment.
Allow me to explain how things work here at Slashdot.
First, you read the headline. Advanced users might also make mental note of the Slashdot editor who posted the story (this helps to frame your reactions to the story.)
Now, there are two differing schools of thought as to what to do from here. One camp jumps straight from here into commenting on the story, having already taken in sufficient information at this point to begin forming and expressing opinions. The other camp will read some or all of the summary before commenting. They claim the latter method helps them in identifying and avoiding commenting on duplicate stories.
However, at no point should you ever actually read the articles (this was where you made your critical mistake.)
I've been playing for about a month under Wine without my account being banned. That said, one has to wonder just how "extensively" their tests were done on Linux. Try running it on any 64-bit kernel, and you can't even get past authenticating unless you're using either a patched version of Wine, or the "setarch i386 -3" workaround. The Warden routine gets stuck in an infinite loop without the patch. More details on this Wine ticket: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30849
Despite their community manager's assertion, there most certainly are gaps in their testing.
I once saw a RAC posting from someone who wanted all of his job interview pre-screen questions answered for him. It was no surprise, when I had a look at his project history, that he had cheated his way through his degree as well.
What he neglects to take into consideration is that chess and Street Fighter have very clearly defined goals: checkmate in the former, and beating the crap out of your opponent in the latter. However, a lot of games such as MMORPGs don't have such clearly defined goals.
On the contrary, there is one very clear goal of MMORPGs such as WoW: Paying the monthly subscription fee. Why else would time be valued above all else, including skill? (This fact is reflected by the authors other observations. Encouraging players to make in-game friends by way of guilds and raiding parties makes it harder for them to quit.)
The author's points are valid - they come very close to the reasons I quit WoW after playing for a couple months. I just wasn't willing to devote a good portion of my life into the obvious time sinks integral to the game.
The only difference between PVC and plenum-rated cable is with regard to electrical/fire code compliance. Use whatever is cheapest and meets code. The advantage of plenum-rated cable when making runs through vent ducts is when your house catches fire, the burning cable jacket won't flood your house with toxic fumes by way of your HVAC system.
Google, where every byte counts. I can imagine how sucking out all the whitespace and reducing variable names to one or two characters each must have a huge effect on their bandwidth bill.
I find it amusing that the companies that argue intellectual property is the same as physical property for control issues (eg. copying is theft), are the same companies that now say IP and physical property are completely different when the issue is taxes.
I wrote a curses viewer which supports multiple playback speeds, pausing, and compression (that 930k movie file gzips into a nice little 37k bundle) Go grab it from http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~askalski/swplay.html and enjoy:-)
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I know you were modded Funny, but the Japanese actually use the English loanwords "plus driver" and "minus driver". And in many cases, "plus" may even be more accurate, considering there are several other plus-shaped designs (JIS and PoziDriv for example) that are incompatible with Phillips drivers.
Something didn't seem quite right, but I just couldn't put my finger on it...
You can have any 4-digit ID you like, as long as it's "8374".
Not to mention the hassle of claiming those bitcoin tips as income, when it's not exactly clear yet how to do that properly.
I had to use urban dictionary to understand wtf a "photog" was:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=photog
Slang for Photographer apparently. Although I've never heard or seen anyone use the term and apparently those writing the summary title thought they were being "hip".
You might have used the regular dictionary instead, and learned that the word "photog" has been in use for over a century. Congrats, you're one of today's Lucky 10,000!
Nope. Clicked straight on through to the first article, and then added my comment.
Allow me to explain how things work here at Slashdot.
First, you read the headline. Advanced users might also make mental note of the Slashdot editor who posted the story (this helps to frame your reactions to the story.)
Now, there are two differing schools of thought as to what to do from here. One camp jumps straight from here into commenting on the story, having already taken in sufficient information at this point to begin forming and expressing opinions. The other camp will read some or all of the summary before commenting. They claim the latter method helps them in identifying and avoiding commenting on duplicate stories.
However, at no point should you ever actually read the articles (this was where you made your critical mistake.)
It's just not done.
I've been playing for about a month under Wine without my account being banned. That said, one has to wonder just how "extensively" their tests were done on Linux. Try running it on any 64-bit kernel, and you can't even get past authenticating unless you're using either a patched version of Wine, or the "setarch i386 -3" workaround. The Warden routine gets stuck in an infinite loop without the patch. More details on this Wine ticket: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30849
Despite their community manager's assertion, there most certainly are gaps in their testing.
If you examine their demo file, you'll find the 5 static JPEGs inside.
http://cdn01.lytro.com/media/lytro/lyt-37/lyt-37.lfp
What exactly was the point of that "demo"?
So, in other words, this is the facial recognition equivalent of a CAPTCHA?
I am wondering what exactly they are calling cheating here, since the code says they "will not plagiarize, copy work or get outside help."
Here's a good example of outside help:
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=1242899
I once saw a RAC posting from someone who wanted all of his job interview pre-screen questions answered for him. It was no surprise, when I had a look at his project history, that he had cheated his way through his degree as well.
The author's points are valid - they come very close to the reasons I quit WoW after playing for a couple months. I just wasn't willing to devote a good portion of my life into the obvious time sinks integral to the game.
The only difference between PVC and plenum-rated cable is with regard to electrical/fire code compliance. Use whatever is cheapest and meets code. The advantage of plenum-rated cable when making runs through vent ducts is when your house catches fire, the burning cable jacket won't flood your house with toxic fumes by way of your HVAC system.
> extrapolate what someone is watching/reading/viewing on screen?
h tml
Something like this?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.
Voltara
Google, where every byte counts. I can imagine how sucking out all the whitespace and reducing variable names to one or two characters each must have a huge effect on their bandwidth bill.
I tried searching for information on my pet cockatiels, but google cut me off at "cock"!
A little something to help change your mind.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2109127/
"... concession speeches are courtesies--they carry no legal weight. And they don't halt vote counts, either."
So who else saw Tourist-class and right away assumed it was an article about nethack?
I once bought some hardware like that too. Rather than break the seal, I opened the CD sleeve from the other end.
I find it amusing that the companies that argue intellectual property is the same as physical property for control issues (eg. copying is theft), are the same companies that now say IP and physical property are completely different when the issue is taxes.
The same thing can be said about the nonexistent word "non-existant". Get over it.
I wrote a curses viewer which supports multiple playback speeds, pausing, and compression (that 930k movie file gzips into a nice little 37k bundle) Go grab it from http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~askalski/swplay.html and enjoy :-)