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I'd be interested in the mechanics of the "mouse cages... designed for comfort and protection." I have a bunch of pet mice, and let me tell you, mice haven't evolved for cages.
For example, for some reason, mice have evolved to Hide Water. Apparently if they find a puddle, their instinct is to cover it with leaves or something. For this reason, it's impossible to provide a mouse with a clean bowl of water, since they just throw all their bedding into it. Hence, water bottles.
Some mice have learned how to apply the Hide Water instinct to water bottles as well. They will actually shove little bits of bedding into the nipple. This has one of two effects: the bottle ceases to deliver water, or the bottle promptly leaks all its water. Either way, sucks for the mouse.
Maybe they'll use that gel-like stuff that hydrates feeder insects?
I've heard that as much as 50% of articles in daily newspapers are paid for by someone (e.g. Scientists Discover New Benefits of Carrots), and that as much as 80% of TV news is bought and paid for. So it wouldn't surprise me if fax.com paid for that article to be written and published.
I don't know... every time we're about to get to the end of an episode, I feel like they should show the beginning of the next episode with the captain saying, "Oh boy..."
Or we could just pay attention to our kids, and make our schools interesting enough that kids want to go, and get parents to stop ignoring their kids as soon as they can use the bathroom on their own....
You mean that parents normally ignore their kids before they can use the bathroom on their own?
Why would 99% of legitimate users ever need to scan a bill?
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Why would 99% of legitimate users need to cut out a cat from one image, paste it into the Houston city skyline, add some UFO's, and then add the tagline, "I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords." ???
And then add a guy throwing money at the cat?
Don't presume to know why a user would want to user a particular feature.
I wonder if spam will become self-defeating. Eventually the filters will become so good that the only things that can make it through are legitimate mail, and gibberish spam. But if the spam is so obfuscated, imagine the reaction of the typical rube who actually responds to spam: "Duh.... 'STILL NO LUCK ENRGAILNG IT?' What's enrgailng? Is that some kind of financing?"
I use gimp often when I don't want to wait/reboot for photoshop but every single time I do I find myself swearing and cursing at that clueless UI.
Hear, hear! Every time I get the bug about using open source, I switch from Photoshop to GIMP... and then switch right back. Man, what an unintuitive interface.
And yes, I'm complaining without contributing. But guess what: most people can't contribute! Either because they're doing something else, or because the internal documentation (something open source also sucks at) blows.
Is it illegal or something to scan and alter images of money?
18.USC.504: Treasury Directive Number 15-56 FR 48539 (September 15,1993) 411.1 Color illustrations authorized.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 25 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, authority is hereby given for the printing, publishing or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publication, of color illustrations of U.S. currency provided that:
1. The illustration must be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated;
2. The illustration must be one sided; and
3. All negatives, plates, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof shall be destroyed and or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section.
The law actually varies by country, and I guess to play it safe Adobe decided to forbid any kind of reproduction. I guess these days when a software manufacturer is held liable for enabling illegality....:(
Wallmart is losing money and only doing this to turn their competitors under.
Uh-uh. Their cash flow from operations is both positive, and has increased every year. If you don't understand that statement, then don't make statements like the above.
Look, Orville and Wilbur didn't do much out on those sand dunes. All they did was make a crappy little airplane not capable of flying in anything but a near direct headwind. It's a piece of crap as far as airplanes go and any kid today can make a better one with some balsa wood and a rubberband.
I'd like to see the kid who can build a "better one", capable of carrying one person, controlled, under the power of a single rubberband.
Remember, flight had been known for centuries, it was just uncontrolled and unpowered. The Wright brothers (and others in that time frame!) were the ones to demonstrate powered, controlled flight.
the virus itself is fairly effective...not associated with any pathogenesis...have antibodies it'll probably be a fairly asymptomatic infection (pardon my spelling)
Only on Slashdot... you have to apologize for having good spelling.:(
It's not like this is going to favor Republicans just because the guy running Diebold is a Republican - with security this bad it's open season for everyone.
So... it's just like voting, except that only the hackerz get to vote!
"I have become increasingly concerned about the apparent lack of concern over the practice of writing contracts to provide products and services which do not exist and then attempting to build these items on an unreasonable timetable with no written plan, little to no time for testing, and minimal resources. It also seems to be an accepted practice to exaggerate our progress and functionality to our customers and ourselves then make excuses at delivery time when these products and services do not meet expectations."
"I feel that over the next year, if the current management team stays in place, the Global [Election Management System] working environment will continue to be a chaotic mess. Global management has and will be doing the best to keep their jobs at the expense of employees. Unrealistic goals will be placed on current employees, they will fail to achieve them. If Diebold wants to keep things the same for the time being, this will only compound an already dysfunctional company. Due to the lack of leadership, vision, and self-preserving nature of the current management, the future growth of this company will continue to stagnate until change comes."
Except that these are sentiments expressed at every company.
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For example, for some reason, mice have evolved to Hide Water. Apparently if they find a puddle, their instinct is to cover it with leaves or something. For this reason, it's impossible to provide a mouse with a clean bowl of water, since they just throw all their bedding into it. Hence, water bottles.
Some mice have learned how to apply the Hide Water instinct to water bottles as well. They will actually shove little bits of bedding into the nipple. This has one of two effects: the bottle ceases to deliver water, or the bottle promptly leaks all its water. Either way, sucks for the mouse.
Maybe they'll use that gel-like stuff that hydrates feeder insects?
--Rob
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--Rob
You mean that parents normally ignore their kids before they can use the bathroom on their own?
That's a lot of smelly families.
--Rob
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Why would 99% of legitimate users need to cut out a cat from one image, paste it into the Houston city skyline, add some UFO's, and then add the tagline, "I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords." ???
And then add a guy throwing money at the cat?
Don't presume to know why a user would want to user a particular feature.
--Rob
--Rob
All right, someone from Boston!
--Rob
Hear, hear! Every time I get the bug about using open source, I switch from Photoshop to GIMP... and then switch right back. Man, what an unintuitive interface.
And yes, I'm complaining without contributing. But guess what: most people can't contribute! Either because they're doing something else, or because the internal documentation (something open source also sucks at) blows.
--Rob
The law actually varies by country, and I guess to play it safe Adobe decided to forbid any kind of reproduction. I guess these days when a software manufacturer is held liable for enabling illegality.... :(
--Rob
How about when he was born the second time around?
Sorry.
Uh-uh. Their cash flow from operations is both positive, and has increased every year. If you don't understand that statement, then don't make statements like the above.
--Rob
First they outsource software development to India, now they outsource space-debris cleanup...
Was I the only one who initially thought this read "The biggest boner I got from 2.6 was..."?
I'd like to see the kid who can build a "better one", capable of carrying one person, controlled, under the power of a single rubberband.
Remember, flight had been known for centuries, it was just uncontrolled and unpowered. The Wright brothers (and others in that time frame!) were the ones to demonstrate powered, controlled flight.
--Rob
In Corporate America, companies make YOU talk to each other one!
--Rob
Sorry.
The EFF has a site: Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
--Rob
my Ph.D. in Po itical Science
Not to be immo est, but
and forever knowledge, i.e. pri ciples about Information Design
I wore a doctor's white coa , so I strolled all around
One wonders what tool was used to have such a specific error -- missing letters.
--Rob
Only on Slashdot... you have to apologize for having good spelling. :(
--Rob
Someone get that thing some Pepto!
So... it's just like voting, except that only the hackerz get to vote!
--Rob
Except that these are sentiments expressed at every company.
--Rob
That's pretty scary.
"Oh, you're *Jewish*? Then you can't buy my patented product. You're *black*? Forget it."