Thank you, that's exactly the one. Some quick searching hasn't turned up whether or not Bill 1609 was passed in Peru, but I take it from your comments that it didn't?
What kdawson-the-lame considers eloquent contained this gem in his foaming reply to the teacher: "You should be ashamed of yourself for putting into print such none sense."
Indeed. The reply wasn't very eloquent and was frequently preachy. For an example of a really great reply, see that letter from a government official (sorry, don't remember which -- South America somewhere, or perhaps Portugal?) going over every argument the Microsoft guy made and solidly debunking each one. If someone could find the one I'm referring to, that'd be appreciated!
<quote> has the advantage that when you're reading an abbreviated post that quoted something, Slashdot shows you the original content without having to expand it. With <blockquote> the abbreviated post shows the quoted content, so you are forced to expand it to see whether the original content is worth reading.
I heard of a museum called POTUS (Primates Of The United States, I believe it stands for) where they claim to have just one such specimen, though the exhibit is due to be decommissioned in early 2009.
So if you buy a bottle of milk and only drink half of it before it goes bad, you're saying it's perfectly fine to buy a new bottle of milk and return the old one claiming that it's the new one and was already bad when you bought it? Sorry, as much as you'd like to justify it in your mind it's still fraud.
I think this might be the most sexist slashdot discussion I've ever seen.
What's really sad is that some moderator chose to mod you funny. Imagine if someone wrote "Wow, I think that country has the highest rate of genocide I've ever seen" and then got modded to +5, Funny.
In practice, this means designing quantum corals, elliptical nanostructures, that absorb terahertz waves of specific frequencies. [...] Such a quantum coral...
If you had enough quantum corals, could you build a quantum reef?
What, why's everybody staring? Did I just fuck up another meme?
It was on Slashdot this mroing. A poster in ar who had killed three memes. They are taking the articles back to CmdrTaco, too karma to post. My thoughts are with the submitter, who lost his atricle. I am truely sorry for your lots.
I just finished playing through the downloadable demo and I'm happy to see that they've finally implemented what actually happens with your point of view when you run. There's no more "the entire screen bobs" to simulate a walking/running effect. When you run, you're looking at a point in the distance and that never diverges from your center of view. If the camera's orientation is represented by an arbitrarily long pool cue, the tip of the cue is resting on what you're looking at and the end of the cue (the camera) moves up and down and side to side. So objects far away barely move at all while objects right beside your head move as much as your head does.
On another note, it's nice to see EA come out with something original though check back in a few years and see if there's a Mirror's Edge 2010, 2011, and so on.
Thank you for the clear explanation, AC. This is exactly the reason why I like reading about this kind of news on Slashdot -- the real story is in the comments.
No kidding. The story seems a bit too much like "do my job for me". It says it's just a "personal research project" but if it really were personal, then there wouldn't be "confidentiality requirements". Maybe this guy's a RIAA/MPAA stooge and wants to more efficiently look for P2P software or something.
Some companies plead their cases with the courts to allow gift card holders to use them--after all, if those people lose their card values, they won't be shopping at the now-bankrupt company, especially when the company needs those customers most...
Am I misunderstanding what you mean? If you have a gift card, that allows you to walk into a store and exchange the card's value for merchandise of equal value without forking over a dime. For a company bleeding money, the last thing they want to do is also bleed inventory with no additional revenue to show for it. Unless the theory is that there are a lot of $5 gift cards out there, and people will come in and spend an average of $30 on products, so they see more revenue than they otherwise would have. I'm a bit skeptical of that scenario, however.
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Thank you, that's exactly the one. Some quick searching hasn't turned up whether or not Bill 1609 was passed in Peru, but I take it from your comments that it didn't?
What kdawson-the-lame considers eloquent contained this gem in his foaming reply to the teacher: "You should be ashamed of yourself for putting into print such none sense."
Indeed. The reply wasn't very eloquent and was frequently preachy. For an example of a really great reply, see that letter from a government official (sorry, don't remember which -- South America somewhere, or perhaps Portugal?) going over every argument the Microsoft guy made and solidly debunking each one. If someone could find the one I'm referring to, that'd be appreciated!
Also, as someone who learned on an auto tranny first, and who is now a (self-described) expert at stick.
Just to clear things up: when you mention having learned on a tranny and now being an expert at stick... you are talking about vehicles, correct?
For those who wonder WTF "growler" is, they meant "Greplaw"
And for those who wonder WTF "Greplaw" is, mcgrew meant "Groklaw".
Personally, I prefer Awklaw and Sedlaw for most of my shell prompt legal needs.
I believe three limbs were broken off by the arc, one arm and both legs, all cauterized so that there was surprisingly little blood.
You're sure they didn't have a Jedi security guard?
<quote> has the advantage that when you're reading an abbreviated post that quoted something, Slashdot shows you the original content without having to expand it. With <blockquote> the abbreviated post shows the quoted content, so you are forced to expand it to see whether the original content is worth reading.
Study confirms that Slashdot has dupes.
Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful thing.
I've already patented the 1-hover purchase as well as the one-keystroke accessibility purchase. What other non-click methods can you think of?
In mission control terms, you're T+8 hours too late with that comment.
I heard of a museum called POTUS (Primates Of The United States, I believe it stands for) where they claim to have just one such specimen, though the exhibit is due to be decommissioned in early 2009.
I'm surprised they didn't name the rocket the Beowulf 9.
So if you buy a bottle of milk and only drink half of it before it goes bad, you're saying it's perfectly fine to buy a new bottle of milk and return the old one claiming that it's the new one and was already bad when you bought it? Sorry, as much as you'd like to justify it in your mind it's still fraud.
I think this might be the most sexist slashdot discussion I've ever seen.
What's really sad is that some moderator chose to mod you funny. Imagine if someone wrote "Wow, I think that country has the highest rate of genocide I've ever seen" and then got modded to +5, Funny.
In practice, this means designing quantum corals, elliptical nanostructures, that absorb terahertz waves of specific frequencies. [...] Such a quantum coral...
If you had enough quantum corals, could you build a quantum reef?
And almost all of them have been phallic-shaped. ^_^ If you ask me, Kirk attracts them.
That's because Kirk is a pussy.
How much energy is used in generating that 10,000 degree plasma, hmm? Less than what it'll output by incinerating trash? I'd like to see that.
It's apparently self sustaining.
What, why's everybody staring? Did I just fuck up another meme?
It was on Slashdot this mroing. A poster in ar who had killed three memes. They are taking the articles back to CmdrTaco, too karma to post. My thoughts are with the submitter, who lost his atricle. I am truely sorry for your lots.
We were talking about you, not me.
I just finished playing through the downloadable demo and I'm happy to see that they've finally implemented what actually happens with your point of view when you run. There's no more "the entire screen bobs" to simulate a walking/running effect. When you run, you're looking at a point in the distance and that never diverges from your center of view. If the camera's orientation is represented by an arbitrarily long pool cue, the tip of the cue is resting on what you're looking at and the end of the cue (the camera) moves up and down and side to side. So objects far away barely move at all while objects right beside your head move as much as your head does.
On another note, it's nice to see EA come out with something original though check back in a few years and see if there's a Mirror's Edge 2010, 2011, and so on.
But hey, if you'd rather us not help us win against this company and you'd like to be ass-raped by DRM for the rest of your life - FEEL FREE.
Stooping so low as to use a false dichotomy? You lose.
Thank you for the clear explanation, AC. This is exactly the reason why I like reading about this kind of news on Slashdot -- the real story is in the comments.
No kidding. The story seems a bit too much like "do my job for me". It says it's just a "personal research project" but if it really were personal, then there wouldn't be "confidentiality requirements". Maybe this guy's a RIAA/MPAA stooge and wants to more efficiently look for P2P software or something.
Some companies plead their cases with the courts to allow gift card holders to use them--after all, if those people lose their card values, they won't be shopping at the now-bankrupt company, especially when the company needs those customers most...
Am I misunderstanding what you mean? If you have a gift card, that allows you to walk into a store and exchange the card's value for merchandise of equal value without forking over a dime. For a company bleeding money, the last thing they want to do is also bleed inventory with no additional revenue to show for it. Unless the theory is that there are a lot of $5 gift cards out there, and people will come in and spend an average of $30 on products, so they see more revenue than they otherwise would have. I'm a bit skeptical of that scenario, however.