If you use the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) on a link it opens it in a new tab - so there one click:)... Unless you are using a mac Or unless you are using Linux and you miss the link because trying to click the scroll wheel caused the link to scroll away, so instead you've pasted your clipboard contents (often what you most recently had highlighted, even accidentally) to the current tab, and if the clipboard contained something Firefox could interpret as a valid URL or deduce a domain it will take you somewhere you likely didn't want to go and away from where you wanted to stay in that tab, instead of opening a new tab to the place you wanted to go.
On my Logitech mouse, clicking the scroll wheel toggles it between smooth and ratchety scrolling. Middle-click is one of the side buttons. I wish I had better drivers for it that enabled more of its buttons, but I don't have administrative permissions on my work machine.
I thought pull tabs were gone by the end of the 70s. As well as 8" floppies. Well, the 8" floppies were because his system was cobbled together from various parts he could get. (BTW, they make good tops for mortarboards for graduation so family can find you, if you can find some.)
Pull-tabs (aka ring-tabs) were ubiquitous bits of litter in any place people would loiter and drink, especially if they'd been sold nearby. Bus stops, pay phones, convenience stores, vending machines, and liquor stores would have them around. There are still lots of those pull-tabs embedded in the street in front of a downtown liquor store here.
Though the stay-tabs were invented in 1975, pull-tabs could be found occasionally in the early 80s in the US. The Middle East and China took longer to phase them out of production.
But looking at that timeline, I'd say it was very likely to be an aluminum tab.
Could that be good? Same story, with modernly-believable technology? If it was that good, it probably wouldn't be direct to DVD.
There were DRUG references? Whoa. Apart from what was actually in the movie:
"What was that you were you saying?" "So, you used to hear her chant all night long. Om mahneypod me om. Om mahneypod me om." "Over the plants?" "Yeah, she'd cup her hands over those seeds and chant by the hour. She grew the most beautiful wandoos you ever saw, man. Primo stuff. Resin city."
"So, that was like sinsemilia, right? "Sinsemilla. This grass made Thai stick taste like oregano. Lay you out flat, man."
...the book also said both David and Jennifer had tried marijuana, but the edited version put some other bullshit in, like that other than both getting Fs in Biology and Jennifer a D in Home Ec., they were good students who got good grades and never did anything illegal. I'd post exactly what was changed and how, but my edited copy was misplaced. I only rediscovered my unedited copy two weeks ago.
I don't recall if the recording David found at NORAD of medical notes, "Patient's eyes are dilated, consistent with the use of marijuana and possibly PCP," was in either edition. It's not handy.
But they left in David relaxing reading a book he'd shoplifted. A book by the same author. Because you can't be censoring the product-placement commercials in books.
CPE 1704 TKS! I refuse to double-check my results with google! Unchecked, but I know it to be correct. However, there was a place where the C was a J. Also, one character was locked by the WOPR twice.
I also have two copies of the novelization. One of them, from the Science-Fiction Book Club, was edited to remove references to drugs.
Also they've released a sequel direct to DVD. It comes out July 29 along with a 25th anniversary edition of the original. Still no Blu-Ray editions though.
You mean like the old "using a paperclip to short the receiver against the coin slot on a payphone to make a free call trick"? It was a pull-tab from a soda or beer can. Probably not even aluminum.
Besides the 8" floppies, the pull-tab really does date that movie.
That's got too many syllables for the tune. It didn't stop Band-Aids from adding the word "brand" to their jingle. Just double-beat "Drunk-" and "-lor" for "bogus" and "server"; it's a bit of a tongue-twister, but that's part of the fun! Especially when you continue it with the next verse:
Impersonatewindowsupdate and serve up malware Impersonatewindowsupdate and serve up malware Impersonatewindowsupdate and serve up malware Er'ly in the mornin'!
It will still fail to properly terminate a file copy when it experiences a low-level read error. After acknowledging the error dialog, the progress dialog sticks around without progress for hours unless the Finder is force-quitted, and sometimes the problem drive has to be powered down temporarily for the Finder to relaunch.
I've been getting this with external SATA drives connected via a backplane to the two extra SATA ports in a Mac Pro that aren't lined up with hard drive bays (presumably intended for use with SATA optical drives).
What could you do with a bogus root name server What could you do with a bogus root name server What could you do with a bogus root name server Er'ly in the mornin'?
Zack: How many more of you people are coming here? Byron: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That question baffled religious thinkers for centuries, until someone finally hit upon the answer: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? As many as want to. How many of my brother and sister telepaths are coming? As many as want to.
final cut pro suite allowed this for quite a while now. Indeed, Final Cut Studio 2 (specifically the DVD Studio Pro application) has HD DVD mastering support. Interesting that, as Apple was backing Blu-Ray.
Apple's DVD Player software was also the first software included with an operating system (Leopard) that supported playing high definition disks (HD DVDs provided they were mastered with the aforementioned software, not commercial disks).
I however have been disappointed with the time it takes Compressor to encode HD video on a 4-core Mac Pro (24 hours for 24 minutes is too slow) and the inability to have two H.264 clips in a single Sequence in Final Cut Pro. I had to abandon my first attempt at making a 3x DVD (HD DVD content on a DVD to be played back at 3x speeds to satisfy the data rate; comparable to the BD9 and BD5 formats on dual-layer and single-layer DVD media respectively) due to the time it took.
I have in the past recorded short-subject DVD-format content onto CD-ROM media, but with player compatibility problems. I wonder about how much HD DVD or Blu-Ray content recorded on CD-ROM media.
I have also thought about replacing the DVD drive in a standalone player with a swappable hard drive bay and formatting a big disk as a really big DVD containing an entire TV series, just to see if the player would treat it as such.
I'm deeply concerned about the unit's stability. Tri-wheeled ATCs have been banned in most jurisdiction due to their high center of gravity leading to tipping. This unit has an even higher center of gravity, and goes significantly faster than most ATCs would. ATCs mostly tip when braking while turning, due to the single wheel being forward. In this case the single wheel is rear and the driver is sitting almost on top of it. This would make the unit prone to tipping when turning while accelerating. You're seeing only the images where the vehicle is stationary. When in motion, it reconfigures.
I mean "bloody" in the "folks are dieing in the streets" bloody - not the British version. Now that was uncalled for! What do you have against public blacksmithing?
I have two copies of the novelization of the movie WarGames. One has a green title, one has a red title. The red-titled book came via the Science Fiction Book Club and has been edited to remove the drug references (particularly in the first scene) and to improve David Lightman's and Jennifer Mack's overall performance in school and their own experimental use of tobacco and marijuana.
However, it left in David Lightman's reading a shoplifted copy of another book by the same author.
I'd post a comparison, but I only recently got the green-titled copy back in my possession and haven't found my red-titled expurgated copy yet. Someday I'll post the complete diff somewhere. But discovering those differences was enough to keep me from joining that club.
Anyway, keeping with the subject, and regardless of what the FA actually says (I haven't read it and I don't plan to), unless the RIAA/MediaSentry actually download the content the defendant was not uploading it, they were only making it available. No, the defendant would not be uploading it, her computer would be serving it on the explicit request of the downloader (RIAA/MediaSentry). She isn't a party to the operation initiated by the outside downloader. It's between the downloader and the automaton serving that download request.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court recently said that saying you have child porn available is a criminal act even if you don't actually have any. Hopefully that ruling won't be conflated to encompass copyrighted works illegally offered over P2P, falsely or not, but I'd bet it will (not an offer for on-line gambling). That ruling wouldn't fall under ex post facto in Jammie Thomas' case.
When GP said "uploading" he meant "making available for download". Which is simply "operating a server" to the people who understand technology.
To really be pedantic: there is no uploading in P2P. Humans download. Humans upload. Machines serve humans by accepting uploads and serving downloads. In P2P, machines serve downloads only; they don't accept uploads from outside sources outside their operator's immediate control.
If they did accept outsiders' uploads, the operator could be considered a service provider with safe haven protections.
except that in P2P you can't upload without someone downloading. There's no buffering/storage. It's Peer To Peer. Actually, in P2P, there is no uploading at all. Everything is downloaded and served. Uploading is pushing data to another machine, such as with FTP's "put" command. Downloading is pulling data from another machine, such as with FTP's "get" command. Neither requires the other to occur simultaneously. Serving is not uploading.
The legalese "making available" is synonymous with the computerese "operating a server".
Yes, I know the P2P applications themselves call it uploading and downloading, but they're misusing the terms. They really should be talking about incoming and outgoing data: what is incoming is what you're downloading, what is outgoing is what you're serving to other downloaders.
Up/downloading (other than inside NASA) is determined by where the operation is made to cause the data to move relative to where it is vs. where it is going across a network connection. As the operation is exerted in one place, there is no concurrent opposite operation.
It's always from the user's perspective controlling the machine, not the machine's perspective of being controlled by the user, especially when you're talking about assigning legal responsibility for actions.
No, it's 2^5-1. You can't hold down all five buttons at once, unless you're a mutant. Of course 31 notes is quite comparable to a number of real world musical instruments. One digit can hold down two adjacent buttons. You can use more than your finger's tips. I like to keep my rest position of my fingers between the buttons so I have a choice of buttons to hit per finger. Still, you wouldn't want to have to hit all five buttons too frequently, or even four at once. If you want it playable in the game, you'd also have to eliminate the open-strum as a note.
You can get all 12 notes of an octave (sharps and flats) with four buttons without having to hold more than three buttons at once. These could be done in a more chromatic rather than binary arrangement. Your fifth button could be an octave key. Better, if the octave key shifted between the first and fifth fret, the other frets could move accordingly to free up the roles of the first and fifth to alternate between octave-up and octave-down. Special meaning to the other two three-fret combinations and the four-fret could expand the scale further, perhaps enabling major and minor transpositions of key.
That's getting close to defining a mapping for a piano controller.
Local governments in California and the United States have long had the power to declare property a public nuisance when their owners allow their land to become denizens of drugs, gangs, prostitution and gambling.
The land has become people? The land is taking drugs, joining gangs, having sex for money and placing wagers?
The word should have been "dens" not "denizens". If there isn't a term for using the wrong word just to get more syllables, then I suggest "creeping syllablism" (or humorously, "creepening syllablizationatingism").
They can no longer sit back and allow Democratic infiltration, Democratic indoctrination, Democratic subversion and the international Democratic conspiracy to sap and impurify all of their precious bodily fluids.
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On my Logitech mouse, clicking the scroll wheel toggles it between smooth and ratchety scrolling. Middle-click is one of the side buttons. I wish I had better drivers for it that enabled more of its buttons, but I don't have administrative permissions on my work machine.
Pull-tabs (aka ring-tabs) were ubiquitous bits of litter in any place people would loiter and drink, especially if they'd been sold nearby. Bus stops, pay phones, convenience stores, vending machines, and liquor stores would have them around. There are still lots of those pull-tabs embedded in the street in front of a downtown liquor store here.
Though the stay-tabs were invented in 1975, pull-tabs could be found occasionally in the early 80s in the US. The Middle East and China took longer to phase them out of production.
But looking at that timeline, I'd say it was very likely to be an aluminum tab.
I don't recall if the recording David found at NORAD of medical notes, "Patient's eyes are dilated, consistent with the use of marijuana and possibly PCP," was in either edition. It's not handy.
But they left in David relaxing reading a book he'd shoplifted. A book by the same author. Because you can't be censoring the product-placement commercials in books.
A friend I made years later told me that because of WarGames her parents immediately threw away her Atari 2600.
I also have two copies of the novelization. One of them, from the Science-Fiction Book Club, was edited to remove references to drugs.
Also they've released a sequel direct to DVD. It comes out July 29 along with a 25th anniversary edition of the original. Still no Blu-Ray editions though.
Besides the 8" floppies, the pull-tab really does date that movie.
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infrared
How I hate the night
Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night
At least they didn't use intelligent deutherium whores.
Impersonatewindowsupdate and serve up malware
Impersonatewindowsupdate and serve up malware
Impersonatewindowsupdate and serve up malware
Er'ly in the mornin'!
It will still fail to properly terminate a file copy when it experiences a low-level read error. After acknowledging the error dialog, the progress dialog sticks around without progress for hours unless the Finder is force-quitted, and sometimes the problem drive has to be powered down temporarily for the Finder to relaunch.
I've been getting this with external SATA drives connected via a backplane to the two extra SATA ports in a Mac Pro that aren't lined up with hard drive bays (presumably intended for use with SATA optical drives).
What could you do with a bogus root name server
What could you do with a bogus root name server
What could you do with a bogus root name server
Er'ly in the mornin'?
Zack: How many more of you people are coming here?
Byron: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That question baffled religious thinkers for centuries, until someone finally hit upon the answer: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? As many as want to. How many of my brother and sister telepaths are coming? As many as want to.
Apple's DVD Player software was also the first software included with an operating system (Leopard) that supported playing high definition disks (HD DVDs provided they were mastered with the aforementioned software, not commercial disks).
I however have been disappointed with the time it takes Compressor to encode HD video on a 4-core Mac Pro (24 hours for 24 minutes is too slow) and the inability to have two H.264 clips in a single Sequence in Final Cut Pro. I had to abandon my first attempt at making a 3x DVD (HD DVD content on a DVD to be played back at 3x speeds to satisfy the data rate; comparable to the BD9 and BD5 formats on dual-layer and single-layer DVD media respectively) due to the time it took.
I have in the past recorded short-subject DVD-format content onto CD-ROM media, but with player compatibility problems. I wonder about how much HD DVD or Blu-Ray content recorded on CD-ROM media.
I have also thought about replacing the DVD drive in a standalone player with a swappable hard drive bay and formatting a big disk as a really big DVD containing an entire TV series, just to see if the player would treat it as such.
Portal.
I have two copies of the novelization of the movie WarGames. One has a green title, one has a red title. The red-titled book came via the Science Fiction Book Club and has been edited to remove the drug references (particularly in the first scene) and to improve David Lightman's and Jennifer Mack's overall performance in school and their own experimental use of tobacco and marijuana.
However, it left in David Lightman's reading a shoplifted copy of another book by the same author.
I'd post a comparison, but I only recently got the green-titled copy back in my possession and haven't found my red-titled expurgated copy yet. Someday I'll post the complete diff somewhere. But discovering those differences was enough to keep me from joining that club.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court recently said that saying you have child porn available is a criminal act even if you don't actually have any. Hopefully that ruling won't be conflated to encompass copyrighted works illegally offered over P2P, falsely or not, but I'd bet it will (not an offer for on-line gambling). That ruling wouldn't fall under ex post facto in Jammie Thomas' case.
To really be pedantic: there is no uploading in P2P. Humans download. Humans upload. Machines serve humans by accepting uploads and serving downloads. In P2P, machines serve downloads only; they don't accept uploads from outside sources outside their operator's immediate control.
If they did accept outsiders' uploads, the operator could be considered a service provider with safe haven protections.
The legalese "making available" is synonymous with the computerese "operating a server".
Yes, I know the P2P applications themselves call it uploading and downloading, but they're misusing the terms. They really should be talking about incoming and outgoing data: what is incoming is what you're downloading, what is outgoing is what you're serving to other downloaders.
Up/downloading (other than inside NASA) is determined by where the operation is made to cause the data to move relative to where it is vs. where it is going across a network connection. As the operation is exerted in one place, there is no concurrent opposite operation.
It's always from the user's perspective controlling the machine, not the machine's perspective of being controlled by the user, especially when you're talking about assigning legal responsibility for actions.
You can get all 12 notes of an octave (sharps and flats) with four buttons without having to hold more than three buttons at once. These could be done in a more chromatic rather than binary arrangement. Your fifth button could be an octave key. Better, if the octave key shifted between the first and fifth fret, the other frets could move accordingly to free up the roles of the first and fifth to alternate between octave-up and octave-down. Special meaning to the other two three-fret combinations and the four-fret could expand the scale further, perhaps enabling major and minor transpositions of key.
That's getting close to defining a mapping for a piano controller.
The land has become people? The land is taking drugs, joining gangs, having sex for money and placing wagers?
The word should have been "dens" not "denizens". If there isn't a term for using the wrong word just to get more syllables, then I suggest "creeping syllablism" (or humorously, "creepening syllablizationatingism").
Didn't Jack Kirby already think of this?
They can no longer sit back and allow Democratic infiltration, Democratic indoctrination, Democratic subversion and the international Democratic conspiracy to sap and impurify all of their precious bodily fluids.