The word pray doesn't make sense in either of the places that he put 'pry'. I'm pretty certain it was intended to mean 'probably'. Even if he did mean pray is his religion really relevant enough for your post not to be redundant?
I was mocking his shortening of the word "probably" into "pry" by misinterpreting it as "pray". Note how many times I use the word (or variant of) "probably" in my reply?
21 year veteran with mandatory raises is pry a nice chunk of change.
You're probably right. I bet many do pray for a nice chunk of change. It's improbable that they'll get it, but they still pray and pray.
I don't know what she makes but it is pry ridiculous for the amount of skill involved.
Why would you want to pray that it be ridiculous? Really, dude... you're probably a religious man given that you pray so much. No big deal if you are, there's probably a lot of people like you who pray over probably everything.
Filming was set to begin on another James Cameron movie and they had to clear out the Mars studio. Failure of the lander was the plausible story concocted to allow for the timely cessation of the project.
I stopped getting Scientific American after they cancelled his puzzle column. In fact, I often used that column as the deciding factor as to whether or not I should buy the issue.
I'll tell you straight, the Concorde made less noise on take-off than the Jumbo (and they were much quieter than the Mirages).
I would take an educated guess that it's because at take-off the Concorde engines are running very much under capacity, whereas a 747 at take-off is running its engines close to capacity. Much like how a fan in a 1U server screams just to push the same amount of air that a larger fan in a 4U server does leisurely.
Haha, true enough. See this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgoCo4Un2e0 (skip to 1:50 to hear the game start playing). That was the quality of music being output by the Roland in the late 80's. 4:00 is the music I was referring to.
And now I'm stuck in nostalgia browsing all the MT32 videos. King's Quest IV music is absolutely beautiful to hear again with its nuanced sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjuMghvOpMc
That might be true for a select few one-hit wonders. But perhaps I simply lack the imagination to think of U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Nirvana, and other "hits of the 90s" bands crowding around a desktop PC to record their latest album. That recording method certainly would have imparted a much different feel to "The Joshua Tree", that's for sure.
At the time you needed to spend $50,000 to record a decent sounding professional album in a studio. Nowadays you can make a recording on par with the hits of the 90s (at least) on a $100 desktop with a $200 soundcard. And major record labels wonder why we're not convinced that the major pop acts are worth the money.
Either this is one hell of a subtle troll, or you're smoking something crazy if you think a professional recording studio can be replaced with a few hundred bucks in computer equipment. Though I suppose you could use the computer as a microphone stand or a chair, and the packing material as budget sound baffling. And maybe you could find an audio engineer to work for free and bring along all his/her equipment and cabling. That aside, you're on crack.
Obviously that valuation was unrealistic, but the Winklevosses agreed to it *because their lawyers told them to.* Their law firm didn't complete their due diligence or else they may have wanted to renegotiate the deal. But that's not even remotely Facebook's fault.
If I'm reading the article correctly, it's not about the valuation but about what class of stock they receive:
"The settlement, however, was to be paid in common shares, not preferred shares, which Facebook itself valued at roughly 75 percent less for the purposes of calculating taxes on stock-based compensation — cutting the settlement’s offer roughly in half."
I had one of those... shelled out quite a few bucks for it too. Any Sierra game sounded absolutely amazing in it, particularly Leisure Suit Larry. Anyone else remember the elevator music? "... da dum da da dum dum dum dum, wah wah wah wah wah..."
Jewish day of rest. Means I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don't fucking poke my friends!
Supposedly Slashdot checks to see if your IP address can be used as an open proxy. If you can find a way to accept the connection and immediately say "nope, not a proxy here" instead of having it timeout that would likely cut down the preview time.
This one thing from an otherwise good post really bugged me. You may make yourself unemployable by posting things you shouldn't in public because despite Facebook's atrocious privacy policy they can only work with data you give them.
"Damn Abstrackt, you sure had a fun time with those hookers last night. I can't believe they happened to have marijuana on them... you sure went to town on that bong! [pic attached] I'll be on IRC tomorrow... you've gotta tell me all about that Windows bug you exploited to crack into that.mil site." -- written on your wall
I'm not sure, can't you think of a more realistic scenario?
Okay, here's another one for you. A plane crashes right smack along the French/German border. There are parts everywhere and the bodies are amazingly kept also right smack along the border line too. In which country should they bury the survivors?
The UK already has adaquate laws for the prosecution of the crime, and the crime was committed in the UK
Was it? I'm sure there is case law to deal with these instances, but one argument is that typing occurred in the UK but hacking occurred in the US. The last time we had this discussion, I proposed the following thought experiment:
A French person with a rifle shoots across the France/Germany border and kills a German. In which country did the murder occur?
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I'm surprised you felt the 747 louder.
I don't have experience with both of those -- I was speculating as to a cause based on Settanta's observation where he found the Concorde quieter.
The word pray doesn't make sense in either of the places that he put 'pry'. I'm pretty certain it was intended to mean 'probably'. Even if he did mean pray is his religion really relevant enough for your post not to be redundant?
I was mocking his shortening of the word "probably" into "pry" by misinterpreting it as "pray". Note how many times I use the word (or variant of) "probably" in my reply?
21 year veteran with mandatory raises is pry a nice chunk of change.
You're probably right. I bet many do pray for a nice chunk of change. It's improbable that they'll get it, but they still pray and pray.
I don't know what she makes but it is pry ridiculous for the amount of skill involved.
Why would you want to pray that it be ridiculous? Really, dude... you're probably a religious man given that you pray so much. No big deal if you are, there's probably a lot of people like you who pray over probably everything.
Filming was set to begin on another James Cameron movie and they had to clear out the Mars studio. Failure of the lander was the plausible story concocted to allow for the timely cessation of the project.
I stopped getting Scientific American after they cancelled his puzzle column. In fact, I often used that column as the deciding factor as to whether or not I should buy the issue.
I'll tell you straight, the Concorde made less noise on take-off than the Jumbo (and they were much quieter than the Mirages).
I would take an educated guess that it's because at take-off the Concorde engines are running very much under capacity, whereas a 747 at take-off is running its engines close to capacity. Much like how a fan in a 1U server screams just to push the same amount of air that a larger fan in a 4U server does leisurely.
Why do you think this project has the name "iConji" (pronounced the same as "i-kanji", the Japanese word that literally means "Chinese characters")?
It's a portmanteau of "icon" and "kanji", so it's a mix of both words.
I don't know about that, but the summary should read "Murphy goes down on Pandora's box".
Wildcard Studios is allowing the MPAA to use the name of their movie "*" in their list of films to block.
Being somewhat of a chess buff, I hope I'm still able to download The Search for Bobby Tables.
why does it take that long to get it working ? didn't take scotty that long to figure it out ;)
They insisted it be housed in a transparent aluminum case.
Haha, true enough. See this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgoCo4Un2e0 (skip to 1:50 to hear the game start playing). That was the quality of music being output by the Roland in the late 80's. 4:00 is the music I was referring to.
And now I'm stuck in nostalgia browsing all the MT32 videos. King's Quest IV music is absolutely beautiful to hear again with its nuanced sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjuMghvOpMc
That might be true for a select few one-hit wonders. But perhaps I simply lack the imagination to think of U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Nirvana, and other "hits of the 90s" bands crowding around a desktop PC to record their latest album. That recording method certainly would have imparted a much different feel to "The Joshua Tree", that's for sure.
At the time you needed to spend $50,000 to record a decent sounding professional album in a studio. Nowadays you can make a recording on par with the hits of the 90s (at least) on a $100 desktop with a $200 soundcard. And major record labels wonder why we're not convinced that the major pop acts are worth the money.
Either this is one hell of a subtle troll, or you're smoking something crazy if you think a professional recording studio can be replaced with a few hundred bucks in computer equipment. Though I suppose you could use the computer as a microphone stand or a chair, and the packing material as budget sound baffling. And maybe you could find an audio engineer to work for free and bring along all his/her equipment and cabling. That aside, you're on crack.
Obviously that valuation was unrealistic, but the Winklevosses agreed to it *because their lawyers told them to.* Their law firm didn't complete their due diligence or else they may have wanted to renegotiate the deal. But that's not even remotely Facebook's fault.
If I'm reading the article correctly, it's not about the valuation but about what class of stock they receive:
"The settlement, however, was to be paid in common shares, not preferred shares, which Facebook itself valued at roughly 75 percent less for the purposes of calculating taxes on stock-based compensation — cutting the settlement’s offer roughly in half."
I had one of those... shelled out quite a few bucks for it too. Any Sierra game sounded absolutely amazing in it, particularly Leisure Suit Larry. Anyone else remember the elevator music? "... da dum da da dum dum dum dum, wah wah wah wah wah..."
Jewish day of rest. Means I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don't fucking poke my friends!
Supposedly Slashdot checks to see if your IP address can be used as an open proxy. If you can find a way to accept the connection and immediately say "nope, not a proxy here" instead of having it timeout that would likely cut down the preview time.
The mass of the average American does skew the numbers a tad higher than otherwise would be predicted.
Kind of an interesting cross of chicken and prisoners dilemma.
Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the chicken dilemma.
I just opted out as soon as possible, given Google's stance on privacy issues.
I opted in as soon as possible, given Google's stance on privacy issues.
(My comment is as meaningless as yours if you're not going to elaborate at least a little.)
But everything would still taste like anti-chicken.
A Facebook page may make you unemployable.
This one thing from an otherwise good post really bugged me. You may make yourself unemployable by posting things you shouldn't in public because despite Facebook's atrocious privacy policy they can only work with data you give them.
"Damn Abstrackt, you sure had a fun time with those hookers last night. I can't believe they happened to have marijuana on them... you sure went to town on that bong! [pic attached] I'll be on IRC tomorrow... you've gotta tell me all about that Windows bug you exploited to crack into that .mil site." -- written on your wall
I'm not sure, can't you think of a more realistic scenario?
Okay, here's another one for you. A plane crashes right smack along the French/German border. There are parts everywhere and the bodies are amazingly kept also right smack along the border line too. In which country should they bury the survivors?
The UK already has adaquate laws for the prosecution of the crime, and the crime was committed in the UK
Was it? I'm sure there is case law to deal with these instances, but one argument is that typing occurred in the UK but hacking occurred in the US. The last time we had this discussion, I proposed the following thought experiment:
A French person with a rifle shoots across the France/Germany border and kills a German. In which country did the murder occur?
Wasn't this the previously supposed hypothesis? That the big bang held a slight matter bias.
Slashdot has known this for more than a decade. After all, this isn't "news that anti-matters".