"Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior."
Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to reduced passive behavior and a greater likelihood of standing up for yourself and the rights of yourself and others.
E.g.: witnessing a terrorist act on an airplane has lead to a reduced likelihood of cowing to the demands of terrorists hijacking airplanes.
One of the "advantages" of these systems is that they allow for the vehicles to follow more closely. The usual depictions have the road-train cars closer than one car length to each other.
It's gonna be hard to pass a train.
If you do happen to start passing one but don't finish before you reach your exit (can't easily tell from behind how many cars you'll be passing), you're gonna miss your exit, 'cause that train isn't going to split itself to accommodate you.
It's gonna be worse if they allow it on other than Interstate highways, especially roads which have No Passing Zones. Even on multi-lane highways, it would be easier to get boxed in with a train in both adjacent lanes, someone impeding you in front and someone tailgating behind. And if the three lanes become two ahead, well the lead car of that train may not see you. You might as well be hitting a lightcycle wall.
My city has several cameras around the city available for access at the city's taxpayer-funded website. I decided to use them once to create some time-lapse video of the wax and wane of winter weather. One day, suddenly I couldn't access the cams anymore. Or the entire website. They unilaterally decided that I was using too much of their bandwidth and dropped my IP into a configuration file to disable my access, expecting me to go to them to get my access reinstated. Of course, all information on how to contact them was on their now-restricted website.
The amount of data transferred was less than 1 DVD a month. It wasn't that the usage was excessive; it was that my usage was an identifiable spike. But instead of limiting how often you can pull frames from the cameras (I used 1 every 30 seconds, sub-SD resolution, in greyscale, but from every camera), they instead decided to lock me out. (They also say they don't retain the video they record.)
Unfortunately, since I was grabbing these still images using my machine at work, and others at work were just monitoring the cameras in preparation for travel home, they saw it as coming from multiple IPs in the same subnet and blocked the company's entire IP range, which became a problem when the head of HR was needing to do background checks on some potential new hires on the city website.
Now if I want to do time-lapse videos of traffic cams again, I'm going to have to do it from home and through Tor so they can't identify one IP block. Even though there's some nice snowfall patterns recently, it just isn't worth the effort/hassle to satisfy my creative curiosity now.
They're quick to blame the auto-correct, but the fact is that it wouldn't be triggered most of the time if people could just learn to spell words correctly and avoid texting-speak. Rather than own up to their own incompetence, they'd rather blame the tools. If only it would embarrass them into actually learning to spell instead of teaching the machine to accept their idiosyncratic errors. (E.g. Brian Tong of CNET's Apple Byte repeatedly tried to type the idiosyncratic "kewl" instead of "cool" and it assumed he meant to hit "P" instead of "L" to spell "kewpie". If he hadn't tried to be cool by spelling it "kewl" it wouldn't have been a problem and not wasted so many takes. The mother who kept a fresh pack of gum in her "puss" probably was writing "purs" or "puse" instead of "purse".)
Perhaps the devices should have a one-touch resend-exactly-what-I-typed button. Then it would illuminate their exact failings and maybe they'd learn not to make the same mistakes. Instead the devices learn from their overrides of its suggestions and will learn to spell just as poorly as they do.
(Many of those errors are simply due to hitting the wrong vowel in the UIO cluster and other adjacent-key errors and it is just sending what they typed, no auto-correction applied. But they're still quick to blame it to save face.)
So, what is the label for the 2 billionth column as a base26 number with an initial leading base27 "digit" (i.e. alphabetic name of A-Z[A-Z]* where A is zero except for the first digit where A is 1, AA is 10, AAA is 100)?
Capricans are not the only colonists to get completely relocated. Libras all go to Virgon and Scorpias get split between Libra and Virgon.
But how about all those Gemenons who are now Taurons? And though lot of Taurons are going to be moving in to Aerelon, they have the largest non-relocated group: a whole week's worth of latter-day Taurons will remain true to the soil.
So does this make the real 13th colony now Ophiucon (settled exclusively by former Sagittarons)?
I have had my iPod Touch's screen be unresponsive at the critical time of needing to pause playback when someone comes into my cubicle. The home button is still responsive to stop video, but for audio I've had to either turn the device off with the power button or yank out the headphones (which automatically pauses all playback).
I still like the iPod Shuffle with real buttons over the all the touch-screen models for music playback in a car via aux-in. I can feel what I'm doing and can switch tracks, change volume, pause and resume all without taking my eyes off the road.
I prefer hard buttons for critical functions where responsiveness is key.
Any user that goes over the new limit won't be charged, but will be blocked from downloading or streaming for the rest of the month.
Finally, a carrier doing it right! Now just take the next step and allow the user to unblock for the cost of advancing their billing cycle rather than what the other carriers do: keep the data flowing while overcharging per datum for usage over the cap.
The Science Fiction Book Club edition of the novelization of the movie WarGames substituted alternate text for all the drug references, even substituting text to say Jennifer got good grades in school instead of once experimenting with marijuana (which contradicted her Biology and Home Ec. grades).
Yet it still had David ending a chapter reading a shoplifted book-by-same-author, 'cause you don't mess with the author's product-placement ad.
That didn't work out so well for Arnold J. Rimmer.
This of course created the most enormous moral dilemma. Technically, she would be my sister, and therefore unable to take me as her lover. After much soul searching, I reluctantly decided, "What the hell, I just wouldn't tell her."
But then, it is implied he never managed to create a sex-changed clone.
So, appeasing the users with OtherOS capability got goodwill on Sony's side for 3 years, 4 months. Sony withdraws the feature that appeased hackers and it got defeated in just under 9 months.
They thought they had security; they just had never been tested. They'd thought that if they were, they would pass. Looked at the tested (XBOX, Wii) and thought, "There but for grace we go"? No, they said, "Screw you," and now see what they just found out.
Ah yes, the famous crush test, which is why we use color-shifting dyes instead of holograms. You know why they have that test? So that agents can swallow a large amount of US currency in special capsules, carry it across borders undetected, crap it out, and have it still be in good enough condition pay off informants.
At least, that's my theory. And why I doubt they'll ever use a method that would reveal the amount of hidden currency you're carrying that they can't themselves defeat (if the circuitry survives the crush test, somehow the capsule will shield it without tripping metal detectors).
Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
2. Jeff bridges "clue" character was so "wax" like, that it was a huge distraction. I'm sure this technology will get better with time, but it's not there yet.
I think I can forgive that. After all, the MCP didn't look much like his programmer(s) either.
As I disclosed, I liked it enough to buy it. But there are some things in its animation that are painful to watch: being off-model on inanimate objects, when the number of chevrons on the gate would jump from 5 to 12 with a change of viewing angle on the same planet; failing to understand how props work, as the time they dialed the DHD like it was a rotary phone; messing up basic tenets of the science, when the Tlak'kahn arrive out of an outgoing wormhole; and simple editing errors, when they dial the gate with a wormhole already present, or open/close an already opened/closed iris.
And you can tell they just don't care about continuity with the franchise at all when, in the opening sequence, wormhole travel sounds like being shot with a Zat. I'd rather watch Wormhole Xtreme.
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"Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior."
Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to reduced passive behavior and a greater likelihood of standing up for yourself and the rights of yourself and others.
E.g.: witnessing a terrorist act on an airplane has lead to a reduced likelihood of cowing to the demands of terrorists hijacking airplanes.
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You accidentally a word.
I disagree.
Or a sufficiently high-powered telescope, an even series of mirrors, and S/PDIF via laser to carry the audio?
One of the "advantages" of these systems is that they allow for the vehicles to follow more closely. The usual depictions have the road-train cars closer than one car length to each other.
It's gonna be hard to pass a train.
If you do happen to start passing one but don't finish before you reach your exit (can't easily tell from behind how many cars you'll be passing), you're gonna miss your exit, 'cause that train isn't going to split itself to accommodate you.
It's gonna be worse if they allow it on other than Interstate highways, especially roads which have No Passing Zones. Even on multi-lane highways, it would be easier to get boxed in with a train in both adjacent lanes, someone impeding you in front and someone tailgating behind. And if the three lanes become two ahead, well the lead car of that train may not see you. You might as well be hitting a lightcycle wall.
My city has several cameras around the city available for access at the city's taxpayer-funded website. I decided to use them once to create some time-lapse video of the wax and wane of winter weather. One day, suddenly I couldn't access the cams anymore. Or the entire website. They unilaterally decided that I was using too much of their bandwidth and dropped my IP into a configuration file to disable my access, expecting me to go to them to get my access reinstated. Of course, all information on how to contact them was on their now-restricted website.
The amount of data transferred was less than 1 DVD a month. It wasn't that the usage was excessive; it was that my usage was an identifiable spike. But instead of limiting how often you can pull frames from the cameras (I used 1 every 30 seconds, sub-SD resolution, in greyscale, but from every camera), they instead decided to lock me out. (They also say they don't retain the video they record.)
Unfortunately, since I was grabbing these still images using my machine at work, and others at work were just monitoring the cameras in preparation for travel home, they saw it as coming from multiple IPs in the same subnet and blocked the company's entire IP range, which became a problem when the head of HR was needing to do background checks on some potential new hires on the city website.
Now if I want to do time-lapse videos of traffic cams again, I'm going to have to do it from home and through Tor so they can't identify one IP block. Even though there's some nice snowfall patterns recently, it just isn't worth the effort/hassle to satisfy my creative curiosity now.
They're quick to blame the auto-correct, but the fact is that it wouldn't be triggered most of the time if people could just learn to spell words correctly and avoid texting-speak. Rather than own up to their own incompetence, they'd rather blame the tools. If only it would embarrass them into actually learning to spell instead of teaching the machine to accept their idiosyncratic errors. (E.g. Brian Tong of CNET's Apple Byte repeatedly tried to type the idiosyncratic "kewl" instead of "cool" and it assumed he meant to hit "P" instead of "L" to spell "kewpie". If he hadn't tried to be cool by spelling it "kewl" it wouldn't have been a problem and not wasted so many takes. The mother who kept a fresh pack of gum in her "puss" probably was writing "purs" or "puse" instead of "purse".)
Perhaps the devices should have a one-touch resend-exactly-what-I-typed button. Then it would illuminate their exact failings and maybe they'd learn not to make the same mistakes. Instead the devices learn from their overrides of its suggestions and will learn to spell just as poorly as they do.
(Many of those errors are simply due to hitting the wrong vowel in the UIO cluster and other adjacent-key errors and it is just sending what they typed, no auto-correction applied. But they're still quick to blame it to save face.)
So, what is the label for the 2 billionth column as a base26 number with an initial leading base27 "digit" (i.e. alphabetic name of A-Z[A-Z]* where A is zero except for the first digit where A is 1, AA is 10, AAA is 100)?
Fourth you make it big enough so you won't need to make it bigger
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Reasonable Limits Aren't.
Capricans are not the only colonists to get completely relocated. Libras all go to Virgon and Scorpias get split between Libra and Virgon.
But how about all those Gemenons who are now Taurons? And though lot of Taurons are going to be moving in to Aerelon, they have the largest non-relocated group: a whole week's worth of latter-day Taurons will remain true to the soil.
So does this make the real 13th colony now Ophiucon (settled exclusively by former Sagittarons)?
I have had my iPod Touch's screen be unresponsive at the critical time of needing to pause playback when someone comes into my cubicle. The home button is still responsive to stop video, but for audio I've had to either turn the device off with the power button or yank out the headphones (which automatically pauses all playback).
I still like the iPod Shuffle with real buttons over the all the touch-screen models for music playback in a car via aux-in. I can feel what I'm doing and can switch tracks, change volume, pause and resume all without taking my eyes off the road.
I prefer hard buttons for critical functions where responsiveness is key.
Any user that goes over the new limit won't be charged, but will be blocked from downloading or streaming for the rest of the month.
Finally, a carrier doing it right! Now just take the next step and allow the user to unblock for the cost of advancing their billing cycle rather than what the other carriers do: keep the data flowing while overcharging per datum for usage over the cap.
It works for Giganews.
The Science Fiction Book Club edition of the novelization of the movie WarGames substituted alternate text for all the drug references, even substituting text to say Jennifer got good grades in school instead of once experimenting with marijuana (which contradicted her Biology and Home Ec. grades).
Yet it still had David ending a chapter reading a shoplifted book-by-same-author, 'cause you don't mess with the author's product-placement ad.
That's a rather medireview implementation.
That didn't work out so well for Arnold J. Rimmer.
This of course created the most enormous moral dilemma. Technically, she would be my sister, and therefore unable to take me as her lover. After much soul searching, I reluctantly decided, "What the hell, I just wouldn't tell her."
But then, it is implied he never managed to create a sex-changed clone.
Ah, but she was also an alternate Tricia McMillan in the extended radio serial, the version of the character that didn't go off with Zaphod.
Cue the Strauss.
So, appeasing the users with OtherOS capability got goodwill on Sony's side for 3 years, 4 months. Sony withdraws the feature that appeased hackers and it got defeated in just under 9 months.
They thought they had security; they just had never been tested. They'd thought that if they were, they would pass. Looked at the tested (XBOX, Wii) and thought, "There but for grace we go"? No, they said, "Screw you," and now see what they just found out.
That's the impression that I get.
Roman Fail?
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
Love to. Let's play Global Intellectual Property War.
WOULDN'T YOU PREFER A NICE GAME OF OPEN THE SOURCE?
Ah yes, the famous crush test, which is why we use color-shifting dyes instead of holograms. You know why they have that test? So that agents can swallow a large amount of US currency in special capsules, carry it across borders undetected, crap it out, and have it still be in good enough condition pay off informants.
At least, that's my theory. And why I doubt they'll ever use a method that would reveal the amount of hidden currency you're carrying that they can't themselves defeat (if the circuitry survives the crush test, somehow the capsule will shield it without tripping metal detectors).
Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
2. Jeff bridges "clue" character was so "wax" like, that it was a huge distraction. I'm sure this technology will get better with time, but it's not there yet.
I think I can forgive that. After all, the MCP didn't look much like his programmer(s) either.
As I disclosed, I liked it enough to buy it. But there are some things in its animation that are painful to watch: being off-model on inanimate objects, when the number of chevrons on the gate would jump from 5 to 12 with a change of viewing angle on the same planet; failing to understand how props work, as the time they dialed the DHD like it was a rotary phone; messing up basic tenets of the science, when the Tlak'kahn arrive out of an outgoing wormhole; and simple editing errors, when they dial the gate with a wormhole already present, or open/close an already opened/closed iris.
And you can tell they just don't care about continuity with the franchise at all when, in the opening sequence, wormhole travel sounds like being shot with a Zat. I'd rather watch Wormhole Xtreme.
I'm totally p##### at how they cancelled caprica, one day is was there and the next day gone, mid season, no cleanup, just done.
And instead of running out the remaining episodes, they put up Star Trek: The Next Generation in its place? WTF?
"They tried to fail?"
"They tried to die."
So did Farscape. SG-1 got some video-to-air movies. SG-A is/was going to. Perhaps SG-U will have.