Same, except left pocket. The system fails when you change your trousers...but even then you just have to find your trousers...which is far easier.
Incidentally, I got a whistle key-finder in my stocking for Christmas last year. It's far too temperamental, sometimes you can be whistling directly into it's sensor and it stays quiet, other times, while driving down the road, keys clinking in the ignition, it merrily bleeps away, "HERE I AM, HERE I AM", constantly. It's now in the airing cupboard.
ACK. I haven't finished Overture yet. Last I played I'd made it to a store room with a single way out under siege by some creatures that are scared of/damaged by light. I don't know when the next time I play will be, but it will be in the middle of the day with the radio on. Love it and recommend it.
If anyone doesn't already own World of Goo or Penumbra, the bundle is easily worth £20GBP/$40USD for those two games alone. The fact that the sale benefits Child's Play should make you dig a little deeper...
Another tidbit is also likely explains why I get moderated to hell is that many mental illnesses also show up on MRIs. Which suggests diseases such as sociopaths and psychopaths, among many others, are not actually diseases. You can't have it both ways.
Hmmm...no. IANANS but I would say that sociopathy and psycopathy are referred to as "illnesses" or "diseases" because there are direct links between these conditions and extremely negative behaviour, i.e. violence. Homosexuality, on the other hand, results in a sexual attraction to someone of the same sex, with extremely few, if any negative effects to society. You cannot compare them. I don't think you get modded down because your views are morally objectionable, or because of a politically correct under-current. I think you are modded down because you don't make sense.
You seem to be saying that the only two possible conclusions are that either everything that is detectable by MRI is a disease or that nothing detectable by MRI is a disease. This. Makes. No. Sense. You say "If you follow the logical conclusion..." and then abandon logic. The preference for banana milkshake over chocolate milkshake will likely one day be discernible on an MRI scan, if not already. Should we then say that because expression of a preference for a kind of milkshake over another is detectable by MRI and is clearly not a disease, that sociopathy is also not a disease?
tl;dr My point of view: Without too deep an inquiry into the definition of "disease", a variation in "brain chemistry" is not necessarily a "disease" however the effects of brain chemistry *may* be called a disease.
No matter, by framing your arguments as science, criticising sociopathic CEOs and alluding to down-moderation in the past, you've stolen some "Insightful" mod-points. Well played.
What could possibly go wrong? Seriously, that's in my top 5 dumbest/. suggestions of all time. Stop and think for 1/10 second yourself and think about what happens when the weapon firing on the assumed foe is on the other side of a civilian, or any obstacle. Where will the microphones be? Where will these turrets/weapons be positioned? Or will it be a drone in the sky? Ok, you just lost your 1/10 second return fire claim and you risk further collateral damage. Now all an insurgent has to do is fire a single shot in the air next to friendly forces and they bring down their own personal airstrike. Awesome! There are some very good reasons to keep humans in the loop when dealing death. Pretty high up on that list is the desire not to kill your own soldiers...
Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
Naw there's a hefty fuckin' fee
And if you don't throw in your buck o' five
Who will?
If you want to get really deep into it, they actually portray Jesus as a pretty nice guy. They've shown the church doing some terrible things, but Jesus is just a guy trying to answer people's questions on his little TV show. He even forgave the whole town for betting against him in his boxing match with Satan. SP!Jesus seems like a decent guy....Y'know, not that fundamentalists ever pick up on small things like that.
Not a Christian myself, but I would think that portraying Jesus like that would be the sort of thing that would offend "extremist" Christians, demeaning him to the status of a talk-show host. You're right of course though, the character of Jesus is a nice guy. But then so is Mohammed in the SBF episode...
In the Super Best Friends episode, Jesus is shown as not being able to do miracles, i.e. to turn water into wine, he gets Stan to turn aroound, and to do the miracle of the loaves and fish he has the entire audience turn around, while David Blaine (leader of the cult of Blaine-tology ha!) does awesome magic. This prompts Jesus to travel to the SBF HQ to seek help. He does this by telling Stan to close his eyes, while they board an aeroplane...
The funny thing is, in that episode, the character of Mohammed is portrayed as pretty awesome, more so than Jesus, whose attempts at magic are ineffectual. And in fact, when David Blaine animates the statue of Lincoln, and "Moses" tells the Super Best Friends that they have to build "a giant stone John Wilkes-Booth", it's Mohammed, "the prophet of Islam with the powers of flame" who organises them all, telling Krishna to gather wood for a mould and Seaman to get water and he himself goes off to find sources of concrete. Jesus' contribution is to use his carpentry skills to construct the mould.
I'm not being funny, but South Park has made fun of a lot of other religions and as far as I know, have not received death threats from any of them. This is what I remember, but you can see for yourself at Wikipedia:
Atheism
Christianity - (Jesus's public access show, etc.)
Mormonism - (Complete deconstruction/mockery of the articles of faith, mockery of John Smith)
Catholicism - (General mockery, representation of priests as homosexual paedophiles, queen spider controlling the religion)
Scientology - (Do I need to elaborate?)
What's more, they've even depicted Muhammad before!! In the episode Super Best Friends. It boggles the mind that followers of a religion of love can be so hateful over something so mind-bogglingly ridiculous.
768k DSL is fast enough for most people - posting on Facebook, checking CNN, sending webmail. The people who need 10MBit are the warez hounds and ISO downloaders.
This was true, and possibly still is true for some values of "most people", but there are quite a few uses for broadband which are legal, increasingly mainstream, and which greatly benefit from increased bandwidth. E.g. Legitimately buying/downloading games (Steam,2dBoy,Telltale Games), watching streaming video (BBC iPlayer, Netflix), working/video-conferencing from home. Arguably, if all your strawman is doing is "posting on Facebook, checking CNN, sending webmail" there's no real reason to have any more than 56k or maybe 128k ISDN, except that would make watching their friends'/CNNs' embedded video or opening that attachment of the panda sneezing an incredibly painful endeavour.
10Mbit is certainly not a necessity to most people, but 768k is simply pathetic by today's standards. For one person, it's bad enough, but as soon as you have more than a couple of people (family home/student house) with the aforementioned increasingly typical use cases (streaming media/large downloads) who want to do different things at the same time, 768k soon becomes saturated.
Meh, I never "got into the whole podcast thing" but I did listen to lugradioreligiously. Figuratively PMSL at most of the episodes and the earlier shows did tend toward being amateurish but definitely improved over time. IIRC, it also sparked the development of Jokosher
"To be fair, the context was that a gamer slipped a threatening note under his door."
You meant "to be fair to him" I assume. And to be fair to all gamers, one person slipped a threatening note under his door. That person may have been a gamer, that person may also have been a father and an employee at a bank. What about all the gamers who didn't slip threatening notes under his door? Maybe it's not gamers who are dangerous, maybe it's bank employees? Why not claim that bank employees are more dangerous than bikers.
Regardless, I think we're in agreement. Any intelligent person would agree that the man's a fucking idiot and should slip a resignation letter under Kevin Rudd's door.
I think the two infrared LEDs were under the screen. Which I guess is what you mean by "motion sensor". The bar that sits on top of the TV is just two infrared leds, powered from the Wii. All motion detection is done in the wiimote. The wiimote detects the IR leds and based on where the two dots appear, and their orientation, and how it was calibrated initially, it calculates what on the screen you're pointing at, and communicates this to the Wii via bluetooth.
Exactly my method too. I assume we both stole it from the same place, but I can't remember where.
fortune, aptly, sprung this on me last night:
The Briggs - Chase Law of Program Development:
To determine how long it will take to write and debug a
program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add
one, and convert to the next higher units.
Slashdot Mirror
Same, except left pocket. The system fails when you change your trousers...but even then you just have to find your trousers...which is far easier.
Incidentally, I got a whistle key-finder in my stocking for Christmas last year. It's far too temperamental, sometimes you can be whistling directly into it's sensor and it stays quiet, other times, while driving down the road, keys clinking in the ignition, it merrily bleeps away, "HERE I AM, HERE I AM", constantly. It's now in the airing cupboard.
ACK. I haven't finished Overture yet. Last I played I'd made it to a store room with a single way out under siege by some creatures that are scared of/damaged by light. I don't know when the next time I play will be, but it will be in the middle of the day with the radio on. Love it and recommend it.
If anyone doesn't already own World of Goo or Penumbra, the bundle is easily worth £20GBP/$40USD for those two games alone. The fact that the sale benefits Child's Play should make you dig a little deeper...
Can anyone review Gish or Lugaru HD? Have already bought WoG and Penumbra and doesn't sound like Aquaria will appeal to me much..
Another tidbit is also likely explains why I get moderated to hell is that many mental illnesses also show up on MRIs. Which suggests diseases such as sociopaths and psychopaths, among many others, are not actually diseases. You can't have it both ways.
Hmmm...no. IANANS but I would say that sociopathy and psycopathy are referred to as "illnesses" or "diseases" because there are direct links between these conditions and extremely negative behaviour, i.e. violence. Homosexuality, on the other hand, results in a sexual attraction to someone of the same sex, with extremely few, if any negative effects to society. You cannot compare them. I don't think you get modded down because your views are morally objectionable, or because of a politically correct under-current. I think you are modded down because you don't make sense.
You seem to be saying that the only two possible conclusions are that either everything that is detectable by MRI is a disease or that nothing detectable by MRI is a disease. This. Makes. No. Sense. You say "If you follow the logical conclusion..." and then abandon logic. The preference for banana milkshake over chocolate milkshake will likely one day be discernible on an MRI scan, if not already. Should we then say that because expression of a preference for a kind of milkshake over another is detectable by MRI and is clearly not a disease, that sociopathy is also not a disease?
tl;dr My point of view: Without too deep an inquiry into the definition of "disease", a variation in "brain chemistry" is not necessarily a "disease" however the effects of brain chemistry *may* be called a disease.
No matter, by framing your arguments as science, criticising sociopathic CEOs and alluding to down-moderation in the past, you've stolen some "Insightful" mod-points. Well played.
What could possibly go wrong? Seriously, that's in my top 5 dumbest /. suggestions of all time. Stop and think for 1/10 second yourself and think about what happens when the weapon firing on the assumed foe is on the other side of a civilian, or any obstacle. Where will the microphones be? Where will these turrets/weapons be positioned? Or will it be a drone in the sky? Ok, you just lost your 1/10 second return fire claim and you risk further collateral damage. Now all an insurgent has to do is fire a single shot in the air next to friendly forces and they bring down their own personal airstrike. Awesome! There are some very good reasons to keep humans in the loop when dealing death. Pretty high up on that list is the desire not to kill your own soldiers...
This angers Gaga. Gaga has spoken.
The wedding at Cana? If it's like any wedding I've ever been to, you're more likely to find clues about sangria! Amirite?
Freedom isn't free as they say
As Trey Parker sang in fact:
Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
Naw there's a hefty fuckin' fee
And if you don't throw in your buck o' five
Who will?
Bah! Luxury! You think you've got it bad, at least you've got a monitor! I have to lick the VGA port and decode the signal on the fly.
If you want to get really deep into it, they actually portray Jesus as a pretty nice guy. They've shown the church doing some terrible things, but Jesus is just a guy trying to answer people's questions on his little TV show. He even forgave the whole town for betting against him in his boxing match with Satan. SP!Jesus seems like a decent guy. ...Y'know, not that fundamentalists ever pick up on small things like that.
Not a Christian myself, but I would think that portraying Jesus like that would be the sort of thing that would offend "extremist" Christians, demeaning him to the status of a talk-show host. You're right of course though, the character of Jesus is a nice guy. But then so is Mohammed in the SBF episode...
In the Super Best Friends episode, Jesus is shown as not being able to do miracles, i.e. to turn water into wine, he gets Stan to turn aroound, and to do the miracle of the loaves and fish he has the entire audience turn around, while David Blaine (leader of the cult of Blaine-tology ha!) does awesome magic. This prompts Jesus to travel to the SBF HQ to seek help. He does this by telling Stan to close his eyes, while they board an aeroplane...
The funny thing is, in that episode, the character of Mohammed is portrayed as pretty awesome, more so than Jesus, whose attempts at magic are ineffectual. And in fact, when David Blaine animates the statue of Lincoln, and "Moses" tells the Super Best Friends that they have to build "a giant stone John Wilkes-Booth", it's Mohammed, "the prophet of Islam with the powers of flame" who organises them all, telling Krishna to gather wood for a mould and Seaman to get water and he himself goes off to find sources of concrete. Jesus' contribution is to use his carpentry skills to construct the mould.
What's more, they've even depicted Muhammad before!! In the episode Super Best Friends. It boggles the mind that followers of a religion of love can be so hateful over something so mind-bogglingly ridiculous.
How the hell do you change gear with your knees??!
My fstab is stored in twitter status messages you insensitive clod!
This was true, and possibly still is true for some values of "most people", but there are quite a few uses for broadband which are legal, increasingly mainstream, and which greatly benefit from increased bandwidth. E.g. Legitimately buying/downloading games (Steam,2dBoy,Telltale Games), watching streaming video (BBC iPlayer, Netflix), working/video-conferencing from home. Arguably, if all your strawman is doing is "posting on Facebook, checking CNN, sending webmail" there's no real reason to have any more than 56k or maybe 128k ISDN, except that would make watching their friends'/CNNs' embedded video or opening that attachment of the panda sneezing an incredibly painful endeavour.
10Mbit is certainly not a necessity to most people, but 768k is simply pathetic by today's standards. For one person, it's bad enough, but as soon as you have more than a couple of people (family home/student house) with the aforementioned increasingly typical use cases (streaming media/large downloads) who want to do different things at the same time, 768k soon becomes saturated.
"I'm a pantheist, not a frying pan-theist"
Meh, I never "got into the whole podcast thing" but I did listen to lugradio religiously. Figuratively PMSL at most of the episodes and the earlier shows did tend toward being amateurish but definitely improved over time. IIRC, it also sparked the development of Jokosher
"To be fair, the context was that a gamer slipped a threatening note under his door."
You meant "to be fair to him" I assume. And to be fair to all gamers, one person slipped a threatening note under his door. That person may have been a gamer, that person may also have been a father and an employee at a bank. What about all the gamers who didn't slip threatening notes under his door? Maybe it's not gamers who are dangerous, maybe it's bank employees? Why not claim that bank employees are more dangerous than bikers.
Regardless, I think we're in agreement. Any intelligent person would agree that the man's a fucking idiot and should slip a resignation letter under Kevin Rudd's door.
I think the two infrared LEDs were under the screen. Which I guess is what you mean by "motion sensor". The bar that sits on top of the TV is just two infrared leds, powered from the Wii. All motion detection is done in the wiimote. The wiimote detects the IR leds and based on where the two dots appear, and their orientation, and how it was calibrated initially, it calculates what on the screen you're pointing at, and communicates this to the Wii via bluetooth.
fortune, aptly, sprung this on me last night:
So just authorise yourself, right? ;)
This is a tad ridiculous. Call me cynical, but perhaps this is why there is lots of "International" stock available, and the "US" stock is "Sold Out".
Your point is valid, but there's precisely nothing stopping someone using a permanent marker all over your new "Boogie Board".
I can confirm the behaviour seen by the GP, FF 3.5.7 on Linux.
e.g. "houston chronicle" => http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chron.com%2F&ei=kipWS82FNZTgswOF66nsAQ&usg=AFQjCNExYA26_9hBWkCiOa8bUXtsK1hthw&sig2=JH9czPoBVZA1RYSvUN3c4w
Careful, the first one's always free, then they jack up the price. That's how they get you.
Have you considered working for NASA?