she was having problems 'downloading the program from the upload on the cd'
Indeed, I'm familiar with that anecdote. But then I've been in enough arguments with slashdotters over the definition of "upload" and "download" that I hardly ever bother anymore.
Suffice it to say that incoming and outgoing are not synonymous with download and upload. Each can be either one, and neither can be both. It only matters if the data is being pulled or pushed. You can't determine that by looking only at the stream's directionality; you need to know who (a person) originated the action and where their action exists in the operation, both in a technical and a legal liability sense. (The stature of the machines involved is completely immaterial and is a historical conceit.)
E.g. in P2P, there are no uploaders. Everyone is downloading directly from each other.
It doesn't help that sci-fi writers talking about transferring human consciousness into a machine get it exactly wrong every time.
One student punched holes in [5-1/4" disks] so they can be stored in her binder.
That's not that bad of an idea, so long as you knew where it was safe to do that: one hole in the corner would be sufficient to fit it on the center ring of a three-ring binder. Half an inch in from a corner is easily safe.
I take it though that she did it midway down a side.
It's a good think 3.5" disks have a hole built in for this (once you slide the write-protect slider to the open (protected) position). That's another think 5.25" disks got wrong: using a notch taken out to enable writing, which was the opposite of the cassette tapes used previously where breaking off the tab would protect them.
It was successful? Darn, then I can't use the joke, "U.S. Space Program with loud report. Light and get away." And it would have been so topical for a July 4th launch too.
And regardless of whether the UK does or does not use "milliard" anymore, is it too much to ask that when you're talking US Dollars and not Euros to use our "billion" instead? If the point is to communicate the value of the fine to someone else's culture, go full hog with the units.
If the software doesn't let you script a cross-fade between the commentary and the movie audio requiring the commentary to be premixed with the movie's soundtrack, then yes, it is very likely that the MPAA would sue, and the RIAA as well over any included music.
They'll have to buy some new laws though that prevent you from scripting a performance atop an existing performance.
How did that case about Clean Flicks go? I haven't seen anything new since2002.
Well I was going there thinking, "Finally, a site with a lot of images I can use as wallpaper for my Matrox TripleHead2Go system running at 3840x1024," then find they're all.mov files. I might as well just use Gerry's Mod and make my own.
Is there any way to do a Google Image Search for images a specific size or larger only, other than imgsz=xxlarge? Or just sorting the results by area, largest first?
Heavenly shades of night are falling, it's twilight time, Out of the mist your voice is calling, it's twilight time, When purple colored curtains mark the end of day, I hear you, my dear, at twilight time.
Occam's Razor: it looks more like s/eople/people/g to me, but not deliberately applied. I suspect a spelling checker seeing "[P]eople" and complaining about "eople", a user agreeing with the replacement of "eople" with "people", and it being applied globally.
Lesson: don't blindly accept the suggestions of autoamted spelling checkers.
I think a salient point would be that those using a cell phone in the experiment were probably not allowed to choose to hang up or otherwise ignore the phone as the experimenters would see that as invalidating the controls of the experiment.
Or that people are more likely to collide with a virtual car than a real one because, despite the beliefs of Jack Thompson, people do know the difference.
Had some company gone to the government and said "I want that person's land", and the government tried to seize that land to force that sale, that would have been a Very Very Bad Thing. That would have been Unacceptable. But this really was a case of the government taking the land to itself for a public purpose, without being for the benefit of any identifiable predetermined private party.
Isn't that laundering, just applied to land instead of money?
Even if the shifter were on the steering column (pretty uncommon in cars made after oh, about 1965)
My 2007-model car has paddle shifters on the steering wheel. There is also a PRNDS shifter between the front seats, but I don't need to use it while in motion. It is an automatic transmission where in D the car does the shifting and in S you do it yourself, with no clutch. (You can still override the gear temporarily in D with the shifters.)
how would you drive one-handed? "Sorry for skating across three lanes of traffic, officer. I was trying to put it in third."
The point was not that they should be on the steering column but that the turn signal is and can be reached with your fingertips while still having control of the steering wheel. And even if you were steering with your other hand, you could drive with that hand on the wheel and another in a boxing glove and still signal turns and lane changes. Just because only one hand is on the wheel doesn't mean the other is tied behind your back.
That the shifter is not on the steering column would then make it a less-safe distraction, even for a two-handed driver, compared to an automatic transmission. And it makes you have to do extra footwork with the clutch which is also a distraction, especially at critical times dealing with cross-traffic. Also a manual transmission tends to allow less usage of one's knee to keep the wheel steady.
And how do you drive with a cell in your hand? Turn signals are NOT optional despite popular opinion. When you are actually driving, do you take you "free hand" off the wheel to use it?
Where did you find a car that requires you to remove your hand from the wheel to use the turn signal?
Now if you were talking about driving a manual transmission where the shifter is not on the steering column, then maybe you'd have a point. But then you don't see people talking about banning manual transmissions as being a distraction.
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Are you sure? I distinctly remember some fan pointing out Nibbler's silhouette in episode one (to peer skepticism) not long after the character's introduction but long before the episode confirming it.
Of course, I took it to be a coincidence that the writers subsequently decided to use.
"If Apple can require an iPod for songs via iTunes..."
An iPod is not required for iTunes! You can still play protected AAC files on PCs and Macs, and the application allowing you to play them is free(beer) (completely for PCs, bundled with the OS for Macs but also can be downloaded).
No, I don't gotta love bosses. I even hate that they're called "bosses". And they're so widespread in games and still the gaming definition of a "boss" has yet to make it into a dictionary: an exceptionally difficult opponent at the end of a level of a computer game which must be defeated to advance to the next level or finish the game.
The very idea that they would have one powerful enemy at the end whose sole purpose is to defeat the one person who had ever managed to cut through all the defenses makes no sense. He should instead be outside to support the other defenses, not held in reserve as a single defensive point.
Now give me a game where whether you're able to get to the end depends on you surviving your own character's fatigue, where your character really doesn't have the time or endurance to "clear the level" (and not by having infinitely regenerating enemies). Maybe dealing with that would get game designers to stop making games where all you have to do is keep mashing the A button.
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she was having problems 'downloading the program from the upload on the cd'
Indeed, I'm familiar with that anecdote. But then I've been in enough arguments with slashdotters over the definition of "upload" and "download" that I hardly ever bother anymore.
Suffice it to say that incoming and outgoing are not synonymous with download and upload. Each can be either one, and neither can be both. It only matters if the data is being pulled or pushed. You can't determine that by looking only at the stream's directionality; you need to know who (a person) originated the action and where their action exists in the operation, both in a technical and a legal liability sense. (The stature of the machines involved is completely immaterial and is a historical conceit.)
E.g. in P2P, there are no uploaders. Everyone is downloading directly from each other.
It doesn't help that sci-fi writers talking about transferring human consciousness into a machine get it exactly wrong every time.
One student punched holes in [5-1/4" disks] so they can be stored in her binder.
That's not that bad of an idea, so long as you knew where it was safe to do that: one hole in the corner would be sufficient to fit it on the center ring of a three-ring binder. Half an inch in from a corner is easily safe.
I take it though that she did it midway down a side.
It's a good think 3.5" disks have a hole built in for this (once you slide the write-protect slider to the open (protected) position). That's another think 5.25" disks got wrong: using a notch taken out to enable writing, which was the opposite of the cassette tapes used previously where breaking off the tab would protect them.
It was successful? Darn, then I can't use the joke, "U.S. Space Program with loud report. Light and get away." And it would have been so topical for a July 4th launch too.
And regardless of whether the UK does or does not use "milliard" anymore, is it too much to ask that when you're talking US Dollars and not Euros to use our "billion" instead? If the point is to communicate the value of the fine to someone else's culture, go full hog with the units.
But where does Profit fall in all of this?
I'm sure Jim will land on his feet.
If the software doesn't let you script a cross-fade between the commentary and the movie audio requiring the commentary to be premixed with the movie's soundtrack, then yes, it is very likely that the MPAA would sue, and the RIAA as well over any included music.
They'll have to buy some new laws though that prevent you from scripting a performance atop an existing performance.
How did that case about Clean Flicks go? I haven't seen anything new since 2002.
Another related story.
Well I was going there thinking, "Finally, a site with a lot of images I can use as wallpaper for my Matrox TripleHead2Go system running at 3840x1024," then find they're all .mov files. I might as well just use Gerry's Mod and make my own.
Is there any way to do a Google Image Search for images a specific size or larger only, other than imgsz=xxlarge? Or just sorting the results by area, largest first?
D'oh!
Heavenly shades of night are falling, it's twilight time,
Out of the mist your voice is calling, it's twilight time,
When purple colored curtains mark the end of day,
I hear you, my dear, at twilight time.
Occam's Razor: it looks more like s/eople/people/g to me, but not deliberately applied. I suspect a spelling checker seeing "[P]eople" and complaining about "eople", a user agreeing with the replacement of "eople" with "people", and it being applied globally.
Lesson: don't blindly accept the suggestions of autoamted spelling checkers.
I think a salient point would be that those using a cell phone in the experiment were probably not allowed to choose to hang up or otherwise ignore the phone as the experimenters would see that as invalidating the controls of the experiment.
Or that people are more likely to collide with a virtual car than a real one because, despite the beliefs of Jack Thompson, people do know the difference.
Humans have an internal system to gauge how far they've walked continuously too. It's called fatigue.
Had some company gone to the government and said "I want that person's land", and the government tried to seize that land to force that sale, that would have been a Very Very Bad Thing. That would have been Unacceptable. But this really was a case of the government taking the land to itself for a public purpose, without being for the benefit of any identifiable predetermined private party.
Isn't that laundering, just applied to land instead of money?
So a reasonable suspicion to get a warrant is reduced to a matching checksum or hash, or does it equate to an exigent circumstance?
and a nice contact address for getting enriched uranium and tritium
You mean I can't just go to the corner drugstore and buy plutonium?
Even if the shifter were on the steering column (pretty uncommon in cars made after oh, about 1965)
My 2007-model car has paddle shifters on the steering wheel. There is also a PRNDS shifter between the front seats, but I don't need to use it while in motion. It is an automatic transmission where in D the car does the shifting and in S you do it yourself, with no clutch. (You can still override the gear temporarily in D with the shifters.)
how would you drive one-handed? "Sorry for skating across three lanes of traffic, officer. I was trying to put it in third."
The point was not that they should be on the steering column but that the turn signal is and can be reached with your fingertips while still having control of the steering wheel. And even if you were steering with your other hand, you could drive with that hand on the wheel and another in a boxing glove and still signal turns and lane changes. Just because only one hand is on the wheel doesn't mean the other is tied behind your back.
That the shifter is not on the steering column would then make it a less-safe distraction, even for a two-handed driver, compared to an automatic transmission. And it makes you have to do extra footwork with the clutch which is also a distraction, especially at critical times dealing with cross-traffic. Also a manual transmission tends to allow less usage of one's knee to keep the wheel steady.
It might explain while people can't seem to walk and talk on their mobile phone at the same time.
Dear God, what if they were also trying to chew gum? Just think of the carnage!
And how do you drive with a cell in your hand? Turn signals are NOT optional despite popular opinion. When you are actually driving, do you take you "free hand" off the wheel to use it?
Where did you find a car that requires you to remove your hand from the wheel to use the turn signal?
Now if you were talking about driving a manual transmission where the shifter is not on the steering column, then maybe you'd have a point. But then you don't see people talking about banning manual transmissions as being a distraction.
Are you sure? I distinctly remember some fan pointing out Nibbler's silhouette in episode one (to peer skepticism) not long after the character's introduction but long before the episode confirming it.
Of course, I took it to be a coincidence that the writers subsequently decided to use.
6. Fictional IP addresses shown on television shows and movies might resolve to actual IPv6 addresses.
And if that doesn't work, there's extraordinary rendition of anyone who got the information before its reclassification.
Better than looking like a Cybermans geeky brother
Or a young Ender Wiggin?
ESC research is essential and vital.
Won't someone please think of the vi users?
The very idea that they would have one powerful enemy at the end whose sole purpose is to defeat the one person who had ever managed to cut through all the defenses makes no sense. He should instead be outside to support the other defenses, not held in reserve as a single defensive point.
Now give me a game where whether you're able to get to the end depends on you surviving your own character's fatigue, where your character really doesn't have the time or endurance to "clear the level" (and not by having infinitely regenerating enemies). Maybe dealing with that would get game designers to stop making games where all you have to do is keep mashing the A button.