You've got games in there that use 2-way, 4-way, and 8-way sticks, a couple using two simultaneously, steering wheels, a trackball, and even handlebars, plus lots of buttons.
Are all these going to be in one controller, or will there be compromises made?
Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.
[Latin sic. See so- in Indo-European Roots.]
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright (C) 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Note it is not an abbreviation for "Spelt In-Correctly" nor "Seen In Copy".
Much like people think "Re:" is an abbreviation for "in REference to" when it too is a Latin word merely meaning "in reference to" and thus should not be translated into regional equivalents like "Aw:" as certain Microsoft software did (does?) causing some modicum of havoc in Usenet.
Can number portability really result in numbers being exchanged? I get a lot of wrong numbers for a particular person on my cell phone who has the same numbers as my cell, except hers is a land line and has the first two digits of the prefix reversed (450 vs. 540). I've thought about calling her and asking her if she had a cell phone and would she be interested in taking over my cell number so that such wrong numbers would still reach her.
The strangest thing though: I got a call from her home number on my cell once already. Either she had been tipped on the mistake by one of her friends or relatives or a calling card was being used on another line that would report her home number on Caller-ID.
My portable DVD player can do MP3s. I haven't tried VCDs or SVCDs yet. You don't have to have it open and powering the screen to hear the music via headphones, but it helps when searching for MP3 tracks stored on DVD-R, which you'll need to find tracks other than by skipping one by one.
However, they are larger than portable CD players to accommodate the LCD 16:9 screen.
At least they didn't say "they immediately start downloading that piece to other users." That's the level of intelligence I would have expected from NYT online.
The correct phrasing would be, "they immediately offer for download that piece to other users," or "they immediately offer that piece to other users for download."
No one really uploads anymore. You either download or you serve files for downloading. We all pull; hardly anyone pushes.
Hmm, that would be "immediately start sending that piece to other users". "upload/download" are terms reserved for an asymmetric situation. How can the NYT get this wrong?
Because the software and its creator both get it wrong.
I've patched mine to rename Upload/Download to Outgoing/Incoming in the progress windows. In the context the terms appear in my client, that is a valid substitution.
Please make a "no uploading" option button on BitTorrent, because I am a leech, signed the Kazaa masses.
Technically, there is no uploading with BitTorrent at all. Everyone downloads from everyone else. The only real upload is the uploading of the initial.torrent file to a public webserver, and even that can be not an upload if you serve it from a webserver on your local machine or otherwise created on the server without transferring the actual.torrent file.
User interfaces should use terms relative to the user. While one could argue that the computer is uploading, the user is not. Without defining the subject performing the act, the words "upload" and "download" are ambiguous. The subject performing the upload or download is that entity that, barring its action, the transfer would not take place.
I've hacked my own client to use more appropriate terminology: "Incoming" instead of "Download" and "Outgoing" instead of "Upload".
The dilution of the words to make it so every download has an equal and opposite upload and vice versa serves only to make people liable for the actions of their machines under control by outside forces.
Failing to secure ones property against theft should not be (facilitating) a crime whether it is files on a server, a pie on a windowsill, or a car left running unattended.
He'll get shut down as soon as someone starts sharing secret Scientology documents over KaZaA through his service. After all, that's what brought down anon.penet.fi.
Actually, Duracell had bunnies first. They'd demonstrate the long life of their batteries by having a bunch of identical battery-powered toys, all but one slowing down and stopping. The remaining one was revealed to having a Duracell battery.
The first Energizer Bunny commercial was a parody of the Duracell commercials, where the bunnies were playing snare drums, the last Duracell bunny was left, then its eyes got big as the Energizer bunny with its huge BASS DRUM rolled into view.
Showing off that not only did it last longer, but had a bigger drum and was mobile as well! And could even do flourishes with the sticks.
I really shouldn't feel old explaining this.
I thought once of taking the parody further: have the Energizer bunny turn around to see the other side of the bass drum and reveal a Timex watch being struck by the other mallet, and the tagline voiceover, "Timex: It takes a licking and keeps on ticking, and ticking, and ticking, and...!" But then, does Timex even make watches that "tick" anymore?
A pity that Duracell seems to not be interested in putting these testers on their batteries or in their packaging anymore. Saw a whole rack expiring March 2010 with not a single tester.
The piezoelectric transducer is sealed with resins, but is planned to undergo future improvements of waterproof sealing. Shaken in a container having a small amount of water, the Light Emitting Stick looks beautifully luminous between light rays reflected from the water, Nissin Electric said.
I had an idea for luminous items in beverages before, but then I envisioned glowing beads that were neutrally buoyant so that any carbonation in the beverage would cause them to continously move around. I was going to call them "fireflies" and market them to trendy bars.
Of course they'd either have to be safe for consumption or have the beverage container's opening be filtered with a mesh so they couldn't be swallowed.
Lucasfilm VP of Market Jim Ward revealed today that Lucas found some time in his schedule and was willing and eager to make it happen.
More like he realized that Episode III might not be well received and that he should try to capitalize on the success of Episodes IV-VI before more fans desert his franchise than did after I and II.
We love our fans, but this is about art and filmmaking. [George] has decided that the sole version he wants available is this one.
It should be about adhering to the intent of copyright that his exclusive rights be for a limited time and that all published works must eventually enter the public domain. If he does not preserve the original works, nor allow for the public to preserve them, that should be grounds for forfeiture of copyright. He should not have the right to erase the original works from history.
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The recent sniper case in the Washington DC area involved the FBI.
Washington, D.C. has no statehood. They make a federal case out of everything.
Can it output to a US TV via component video, and can it be switched to US power frequency and plugs easily?
Any vehicle under 10,000 pounds is required to have the interlock...
Now there's a loophole you can drive a really big truck through.
Or search for the Printer-friendly version, although for some reason that excludes the illustrations.
Won't you be putting the same text in the document twice that way?
Won't you be putting the same text in the document twice that way?
Now if you coupled it with use of the content: property....
You've got games in there that use 2-way, 4-way, and 8-way sticks, a couple using two simultaneously, steering wheels, a trackball, and even handlebars, plus lots of buttons.
Are all these going to be in one controller, or will there be compromises made?
How much to get it assembled in the form of a giant robot?
During this period, the normally insignificant ambient noise of the audience and environment became the music itself.
And he doesn't pay the audience or give them any royalties for any live recordings of such a performance that might be sold?
I smell a lawsuit.
Much like people think "Re:" is an abbreviation for "in REference to" when it too is a Latin word merely meaning "in reference to" and thus should not be translated into regional equivalents like "Aw:" as certain Microsoft software did (does?) causing some modicum of havoc in Usenet.
Can number portability really result in numbers being exchanged? I get a lot of wrong numbers for a particular person on my cell phone who has the same numbers as my cell, except hers is a land line and has the first two digits of the prefix reversed (450 vs. 540). I've thought about calling her and asking her if she had a cell phone and would she be interested in taking over my cell number so that such wrong numbers would still reach her.
The strangest thing though: I got a call from her home number on my cell once already. Either she had been tipped on the mistake by one of her friends or relatives or a calling card was being used on another line that would report her home number on Caller-ID.
A younger crowd though might be interested in Transylvania 6-5000 (876-5000), both a Bugs Bunny cartoon and a comedy movie.
Do I need to point out Bombay is called Mumbai?
But if the writeup said "Mumbai" then there'd be no opportunity for a bunch of slashdotters to make Bewitched-referencing Dr. Bombay jokes.
Hmm, strange. No one seems to have done so.
I'm suddenly feeling so very old.
My portable DVD player can do MP3s. I haven't tried VCDs or SVCDs yet. You don't have to have it open and powering the screen to hear the music via headphones, but it helps when searching for MP3 tracks stored on DVD-R, which you'll need to find tracks other than by skipping one by one.
However, they are larger than portable CD players to accommodate the LCD 16:9 screen.
At least they didn't say "they immediately start downloading that piece to other users." That's the level of intelligence I would have expected from NYT online.
The correct phrasing would be, "they immediately offer for download that piece to other users," or "they immediately offer that piece to other users for download."
No one really uploads anymore. You either download or you serve files for downloading. We all pull; hardly anyone pushes.
Hmm, that would be "immediately start sending that piece to other users". "upload/download" are terms reserved for an asymmetric situation. How can the NYT get this wrong?
Because the software and its creator both get it wrong.
I've patched mine to rename Upload/Download to Outgoing/Incoming in the progress windows. In the context the terms appear in my client, that is a valid substitution.
Please make a "no uploading" option button on BitTorrent, because I am a leech, signed the Kazaa masses.
.torrent file to a public webserver, and even that can be not an upload if you serve it from a webserver on your local machine or otherwise created on the server without transferring the actual .torrent file.
Technically, there is no uploading with BitTorrent at all. Everyone downloads from everyone else. The only real upload is the uploading of the initial
User interfaces should use terms relative to the user. While one could argue that the computer is uploading, the user is not. Without defining the subject performing the act, the words "upload" and "download" are ambiguous. The subject performing the upload or download is that entity that, barring its action, the transfer would not take place.
I've hacked my own client to use more appropriate terminology: "Incoming" instead of "Download" and "Outgoing" instead of "Upload".
The dilution of the words to make it so every download has an equal and opposite upload and vice versa serves only to make people liable for the actions of their machines under control by outside forces.
Failing to secure ones property against theft should not be (facilitating) a crime whether it is files on a server, a pie on a windowsill, or a car left running unattended.
He'll get shut down as soon as someone starts sharing secret Scientology documents over KaZaA through his service. After all, that's what brought down anon.penet.fi.
Actually, Duracell had bunnies first. They'd demonstrate the long life of their batteries by having a bunch of identical battery-powered toys, all but one slowing down and stopping. The remaining one was revealed to having a Duracell battery.
The first Energizer Bunny commercial was a parody of the Duracell commercials, where the bunnies were playing snare drums, the last Duracell bunny was left, then its eyes got big as the Energizer bunny with its huge BASS DRUM rolled into view.
Showing off that not only did it last longer, but had a bigger drum and was mobile as well! And could even do flourishes with the sticks.
I really shouldn't feel old explaining this.
I thought once of taking the parody further: have the Energizer bunny turn around to see the other side of the bass drum and reveal a Timex watch being struck by the other mallet, and the tagline voiceover, "Timex: It takes a licking and keeps on ticking, and ticking, and ticking, and...!" But then, does Timex even make watches that "tick" anymore?
Testers in the plastic packaging are even rarer than the ones found on the batteries themselves these days.
That is, rare as new. I probably have one or two in a dresser drawer or box somewhere.
It's useful for us non-engineers who don't have The Knack to know intuitively which battery needs replacing in the remote.
A pity that Duracell seems to not be interested in putting these testers on their batteries or in their packaging anymore. Saw a whole rack expiring March 2010 with not a single tester.
I'd imagine the charge would be stored in a capacitor, leeched from it over time as needed at the desired amperage.
Thus the pile of them pictured in the last link that are still glowing despite being apparently motionless, probably dumped from a shaken bucketful.
The piezoelectric transducer is sealed with resins, but is planned to undergo future improvements of waterproof sealing. Shaken in a container having a small amount of water, the Light Emitting Stick looks beautifully luminous between light rays reflected from the water, Nissin Electric said.
I had an idea for luminous items in beverages before, but then I envisioned glowing beads that were neutrally buoyant so that any carbonation in the beverage would cause them to continously move around. I was going to call them "fireflies" and market them to trendy bars.
Of course they'd either have to be safe for consumption or have the beverage container's opening be filtered with a mesh so they couldn't be swallowed.
Think glowing skittlebrau.
Lucasfilm VP of Market Jim Ward revealed today that Lucas found some time in his schedule and was willing and eager to make it happen.
More like he realized that Episode III might not be well received and that he should try to capitalize on the success of Episodes IV-VI before more fans desert his franchise than did after I and II.
We love our fans, but this is about art and filmmaking. [George] has decided that the sole version he wants available is this one.
It should be about adhering to the intent of copyright that his exclusive rights be for a limited time and that all published works must eventually enter the public domain. If he does not preserve the original works, nor allow for the public to preserve them, that should be grounds for forfeiture of copyright. He should not have the right to erase the original works from history.
Not to mention all the guns were replaced with flashlights...
And Leia's suddenly wearing an iPod.