Except for one leap day every septade (seven years), unless that septade covers a year divisible by 100 but not by 400 and not any other year divisible by 4 (e.g. 2097-2103, if they happen to fall that way).
There is no preferential frame of reference and events which may be simultaneous for someone in one frame of reference may not be in another due to time dilation effects (a year for one observer may be over in the blink of an eye for another).
How do you handle centering objects vertically inside divs?
Why would you want to?
Seriously, have you considered not wasting the real-estate at the top and bottom of your div?
Otherwise, if you can be more specific about your goal, perhaps something can be done that is more specific to your goal than can be achieved as a vague generic solution. E.g. if all your objects are of known fixed sizes, then perhaps the application of sufficient top and bottom padding or margins on the objects to give them uniform height can solve the problem.
I'm reminded of a boss that wanted a frameset that would center and constrain a 640x480 active area in the browser window both horizontally and vertically regardless of the resolution of the end user's monitor. No borders, non-adjustable. It was the last thing I did for that web design company. They used it on the company's website, the one used to entice new customers. They're out of business now.
The difference between handgun manufacturers and the Pirate Bay is one of immediacy. There's no company named "The Robber's Den" that has sales reps selling guns right next to every gas station, and which winkingly alludes to the fact they're facilitating others in criminal activity.
Except they're not selling the guns. They're telling you where you can find individuals willing to provide guns like any good B-Arkian Golgafrinchan and their dark overcoats resemble the jackets of NASCAR drivers with promotional logos plastered over them.
And they're telling anyone who comes by, even law enforcement if they were so inclined to ask.
So they're called "The Pirate Bay". What is in a name? A Google by any other name would search the web for filetype:torrent just as well.
Like Craigslist, it appears one's Right to Peaceably Assemble is being denied on-line when whosoever provides the venue can be made liable for doing so.
That's like focusing on how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights instead of when it's moving.
Cars do not spend the majority of their time idling at traffic lights.
No, they spend it idling in their garage, and then you're less concerned with fuel efficiency than you are in their rate of production of carbon monoxide vs. its rate of escape from the garage.
I'd hope they meant "last six months" as being the question asked to a sample spread over a whole year and not a cherry-picking of results over the literal last six months. But the summary goes on to say:
"the average gamer spent just over $38 per month on all types of gaming content" in the first three months of 2009
which belies its a report of recent trends and thus not a very informative study.
Don't remind me. That time machine both adhered to and violated the one rule of time travel that required flesh-covered Terminators to exist: John, Sarah, and Cameron arrive a few years in the future stark naked (nothing dead will go), yet Cromartie's bare endoskull with no flesh covering it also comes through with them instead of being annihilated like their clothes? That skull should have had to follow them the long way.
It is appreciated that you have done so correctly.
However, I found that she was much more human up until the point where she said, "Come with me if you want to live." She then falls to the trope of "robot, once revealed, drops all pretense of being human, even in interactions with humans to which it's nature was not revealed".
The character could have used a tug-of-war with other characters who are simultaneously annoyed by her acting robotic and being creeped out when she acts like a human so perfectly. Play off her bridging of the uncanny valley and trying to find a balance, yet still managing to act human when the situation required it and not dropping the pretense so easily. (You could compare it to a Data/Lore duality, but IMO it's not a good fit analogously. More like Spock in the Star Trek reboot being driven to emotional outlash both by being accused of being emotional as a child and of being emotionless as an adult.)
Michael Moorcock wrote a book Behold the Man where the protagonist went back in time and met another JC. Turned out JC was an imbecile - literally a very low IQ - with no chance of fulfilling his destiny. So the protagonist took his name and played his role for the sake of humanity/history/etc.
I've seen "traveler from future replaces historical figure" before. 1986, second series of The Twilight Zone, story "The Once and Future King":
"Exit, one Gary Pitkin, singer, impersonator, and restless subject of a dead king named Elvis Aaron Presley. A frustrated young man, born twenty-five years too late, who is about to find his own place to dwell... in the Twilight Zone."
An Elvis impersonator, upset about being booked a gig in Vegas and not wanting to repeat the same mistakes Elvis did, after an automobile accident finds himself back in time, meeting and accidentally killing the real Elvis (who would never dance like that or play "the Devil's music"), and deciding to replace him and live Elvis' life as best as he could remember it, including the mistakes.
"A round of hollow applause for Gary Pitkin, who tried to pay a blood debt in sequins and B-movies, and discovered, to his sorrow, that sometimes you're called back for one encore too many... in the Twilight Zone."
Jack Bauer can't die. He doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and he absolutely will not stop. Until you have told him where the bomb is!
And only after he's asked you twice.
[Thanksgiving at the Bauer residence] Jack: Kim, could you please pass me the potatoes? Kim: Just a moment, Dad, I'm just serving my daughter-- Jack: [pulls gun] Pass me the potatoes now!
If it turns out that "Mrs. Sully" is someone who could have been found in this way, then as a taxpayer and as someone who supports law enforcement at least insofar as they're conducting murder investigations, I might reasonably ask why the police didn't do that first.
This reminds me of two favorite lines by Orac from Blakes 7:
"Since I lack sensors to assess what is or is not in your mind, I cannot assess what is or is not already known to you."
"I am not trying to tell you anything. I am simply not interested in attempting to compensate for your amazing lack of observation."
And of course this from Babylon 5:
This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table. This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner. What part of this progression escapes you?
in fact, two objects 2 lightyears each moving towards a convergence point at the speed of light will meet in 2 years, not 1
You can't do simple math.
And you don't know basic relativity.
Two objects two lightyears apart moving at lightspeed towards each other will meet in 1 year.
In what frame of reference are you measuring the distance, in what frame of reference are you measuring the time, and what makes your frame of reference better than anyone else's?
Let's call these two objects Left and Right.
If I'm Left, I am stationary in my frame of reference (I'm not accelerating). Right is coming at me at light speed (because nothing goes faster than light in any frame of reference) and is 2 light years away. Right will hit me in 2 years.
If I'm Right, I am stationary in my frame of reference (I'm not accelerating). Left is coming at me at light speed (because nothing goes faster than light in any frame of reference) and is 2 light years away. Left will hit me in 2 years.
I'm at Center. I am stationary in my frame of reference (I'm not accelerating). Left is coming at me at light speed and is 1 light year away from me. Right is coming at me at light speed and is 1 light year away from me. Left and Right will both hit me in 1 year.
Left says Center is also coming at him at light speed and will hit him in one year, one year before Right does. Right says Center is also coming at him at light speed and will hit him in one year, one year before Left does.
the fastest-loading page of all is a blank one, but it's also the most useless
No, a frameset that loads that blank page into four out of five frames so that the center frame is never larger than 640x480 is more useless than a blank page. Or at least the most idiotic.
Creation of such a frameset was the last thing I did for Digital H2O, a web design company. Shayne Zutavern used it for the front page of the company's site to guarantee that everyone could see the site as it had been designed regardless of their display resolution. The business didn't last much longer, though that probably wasn't the only reason (after all, the boss didn't know enough HTML to do it himself).
I also think the page "about:blank" can give a blank page hosted anywhere else a run for its money, though it could be shorter:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>
I think this dates back to Doom and Quake, personally, possibly earlier.
Doom and Quake aren't operating systems. The patent is narrowly scoped to apply only to operating systems. Microsoft can't use the patent against anyone other than an operating system provider.
It has also been the case of mainframe computers to have their capabilities artificially restricted, but from my knowledge it was implemented in hardware, accessed by flipping a single DIP switch. The license agreement for the hardware bars the end user from manipulating this physical switch absent a license for the added functionality enabled by the switch. But that's not an operating system restriction either so also doesn't count as prior art.
You might be able to argue for the last official version of GS/OS for the Apple IIgs as being prior art in that it shipped with Ethernet-supporting code in the binaries but without enabling it for end users. Unless they tailored their definition of an operating system to exclude GS/OS or something else disqualifies it (such as never being officially enabled that code outside of internal development of the never-shipped Apple IIgs Ethernet card AFAIK).
IMO this is a business method patent that should not be patentable due to it being blatantly anti-competitive.
Personally, I have found myself wanting the ability to use my iPhone while walking or having it in my pocket without having to take it out.
I mean the walking part I can do... Just not well seeing having to look down at the device or making my arms tired holding it up in my face. If I could some how use the iPhone in my pocket to text or surf and see the text in front of my face rather than looking down all the time would be a plus.
Baseball cap plus iPhone-mounting clip to the bill, with second iPhone or iPod Touch in pocket, each running an app that maps touches on one to the interface on the other.
Just needs Apple to either allow background apps or an app that can run other apps.
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Only Linux uses encryption?
Only encryption uses Linux?
Only Linux uses terrorists?
In the US it's 1 888 DIG SAFE
They will answer 24/7/365
Except for one leap day every septade (seven years), unless that septade covers a year divisible by 100 but not by 400 and not any other year divisible by 4 (e.g. 2097-2103, if they happen to fall that way).
Wait... So whose the terrorist here again?
Ours.
And then drop the flag in the urinal and piss on it?
Better yet, coat it with a chemical such that it undergoes an exothermic reaction in contact with urine.
(It's not yet Memorial Day, right?)
Imagine if the suicide of 15-year-old Edward Seidel over the cancellation of the original Battlestar Galactica led to the end of all science fiction television in the US in 1979!
All of them are correct.
There is no preferential frame of reference and events which may be simultaneous for someone in one frame of reference may not be in another due to time dilation effects (a year for one observer may be over in the blink of an eye for another).
Great. Now I won't be able to suppress the noisy and annoying (especially in a work environment) rich ad content by just disabling Flash.
How do you handle centering objects vertically inside divs?
Why would you want to?
Seriously, have you considered not wasting the real-estate at the top and bottom of your div?
Otherwise, if you can be more specific about your goal, perhaps something can be done that is more specific to your goal than can be achieved as a vague generic solution. E.g. if all your objects are of known fixed sizes, then perhaps the application of sufficient top and bottom padding or margins on the objects to give them uniform height can solve the problem.
I'm reminded of a boss that wanted a frameset that would center and constrain a 640x480 active area in the browser window both horizontally and vertically regardless of the resolution of the end user's monitor. No borders, non-adjustable. It was the last thing I did for that web design company. They used it on the company's website, the one used to entice new customers. They're out of business now.
The difference between handgun manufacturers and the Pirate Bay is one of immediacy. There's no company named "The Robber's Den" that has sales reps selling guns right next to every gas station, and which winkingly alludes to the fact they're facilitating others in criminal activity.
Except they're not selling the guns. They're telling you where you can find individuals willing to provide guns like any good B-Arkian Golgafrinchan and their dark overcoats resemble the jackets of NASCAR drivers with promotional logos plastered over them.
And they're telling anyone who comes by, even law enforcement if they were so inclined to ask.
So they're called "The Pirate Bay". What is in a name? A Google by any other name would search the web for filetype:torrent just as well.
Like Craigslist, it appears one's Right to Peaceably Assemble is being denied on-line when whosoever provides the venue can be made liable for doing so.
That's like focusing on how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights instead of when it's moving.
Cars do not spend the majority of their time idling at traffic lights.
No, they spend it idling in their garage, and then you're less concerned with fuel efficiency than you are in their rate of production of carbon monoxide vs. its rate of escape from the garage.
Wait, what were we talking about again?
I'd hope they meant "last six months" as being the question asked to a sample spread over a whole year and not a cherry-picking of results over the literal last six months. But the summary goes on to say:
which belies its a report of recent trends and thus not a very informative study.
Don't remind me. That time machine both adhered to and violated the one rule of time travel that required flesh-covered Terminators to exist: John, Sarah, and Cameron arrive a few years in the future stark naked (nothing dead will go), yet Cromartie's bare endoskull with no flesh covering it also comes through with them instead of being annihilated like their clothes? That skull should have had to follow them the long way.
Make of it what you will.
Everything ends eventually. Even Perry Mason and Doctor Who.
And yeah, I really like using "effect" as a verb.
It is appreciated that you have done so correctly.
However, I found that she was much more human up until the point where she said, "Come with me if you want to live." She then falls to the trope of "robot, once revealed, drops all pretense of being human, even in interactions with humans to which it's nature was not revealed".
The character could have used a tug-of-war with other characters who are simultaneously annoyed by her acting robotic and being creeped out when she acts like a human so perfectly. Play off her bridging of the uncanny valley and trying to find a balance, yet still managing to act human when the situation required it and not dropping the pretense so easily. (You could compare it to a Data/Lore duality, but IMO it's not a good fit analogously. More like Spock in the Star Trek reboot being driven to emotional outlash both by being accused of being emotional as a child and of being emotionless as an adult.)
Michael Moorcock wrote a book Behold the Man where the protagonist went back in time and met another JC. Turned out JC was an imbecile - literally a very low IQ - with no chance of fulfilling his destiny. So the protagonist took his name and played his role for the sake of humanity/history/etc.
I've seen "traveler from future replaces historical figure" before. 1986, second series of The Twilight Zone, story "The Once and Future King":
"Exit, one Gary Pitkin, singer, impersonator, and restless subject of a dead king named Elvis Aaron Presley. A frustrated young man, born twenty-five years too late, who is about to find his own place to dwell... in the Twilight Zone."
An Elvis impersonator, upset about being booked a gig in Vegas and not wanting to repeat the same mistakes Elvis did, after an automobile accident finds himself back in time, meeting and accidentally killing the real Elvis (who would never dance like that or play "the Devil's music"), and deciding to replace him and live Elvis' life as best as he could remember it, including the mistakes.
"A round of hollow applause for Gary Pitkin, who tried to pay a blood debt in sequins and B-movies, and discovered, to his sorrow, that sometimes you're called back for one encore too many... in the Twilight Zone."
Jack Bauer can't die.
He doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and he
absolutely will not stop. Until you have told him where the bomb is!
And only after he's asked you twice.
[Thanksgiving at the Bauer residence]
Jack: Kim, could you please pass me the potatoes?
Kim: Just a moment, Dad, I'm just serving my daughter--
Jack: [pulls gun] Pass me the potatoes now!
If only my mod points hadn't expired.
Glad to here.
I'd hope so, because as you know: no matter where you go, there you are.
If it turns out that "Mrs. Sully" is someone who could have been found in this way, then as a taxpayer and as someone who supports law enforcement at least insofar as they're conducting murder investigations, I might reasonably ask why the police didn't do that first.
This reminds me of two favorite lines by Orac from Blakes 7:
And of course this from Babylon 5:
in fact, two objects 2 lightyears each moving towards a convergence point at the speed of light will meet in 2 years, not 1
You can't do simple math.
And you don't know basic relativity.
Two objects two lightyears apart moving at lightspeed towards each other will meet in 1 year.
In what frame of reference are you measuring the distance, in what frame of reference are you measuring the time, and what makes your frame of reference better than anyone else's?
Let's call these two objects Left and Right.
If I'm Left, I am stationary in my frame of reference (I'm not accelerating). Right is coming at me at light speed (because nothing goes faster than light in any frame of reference) and is 2 light years away. Right will hit me in 2 years.
If I'm Right, I am stationary in my frame of reference (I'm not accelerating). Left is coming at me at light speed (because nothing goes faster than light in any frame of reference) and is 2 light years away. Left will hit me in 2 years.
I'm at Center. I am stationary in my frame of reference (I'm not accelerating). Left is coming at me at light speed and is 1 light year away from me. Right is coming at me at light speed and is 1 light year away from me. Left and Right will both hit me in 1 year.
Left says Center is also coming at him at light speed and will hit him in one year, one year before Right does.
Right says Center is also coming at him at light speed and will hit him in one year, one year before Left does.
Who is correct: Left, Right, or Center?
the fastest-loading page of all is a blank one, but it's also the most useless
No, a frameset that loads that blank page into four out of five frames so that the center frame is never larger than 640x480 is more useless than a blank page. Or at least the most idiotic.
Creation of such a frameset was the last thing I did for Digital H2O, a web design company. Shayne Zutavern used it for the front page of the company's site to guarantee that everyone could see the site as it had been designed regardless of their display resolution. The business didn't last much longer, though that probably wasn't the only reason (after all, the boss didn't know enough HTML to do it himself).
I also think the page "about:blank" can give a blank page hosted anywhere else a run for its money, though it could be shorter:
It could be reduced to just this:
and still be valid, though ambiguous.
The disabled access to Ethernet features in GS/OS 6.0.1 (1993) due to nixing the production of the Ethernet card for the Apple IIgs.
I have devised a way to get my ass sparkling clean after taking a dump using only items commonly found in the home...without using toilet paper!
Remind me never to borrow your electric toothbrush or water pik and to never allow you anywhere near mine!
I think this dates back to Doom and Quake, personally, possibly earlier.
Doom and Quake aren't operating systems. The patent is narrowly scoped to apply only to operating systems. Microsoft can't use the patent against anyone other than an operating system provider.
It has also been the case of mainframe computers to have their capabilities artificially restricted, but from my knowledge it was implemented in hardware, accessed by flipping a single DIP switch. The license agreement for the hardware bars the end user from manipulating this physical switch absent a license for the added functionality enabled by the switch. But that's not an operating system restriction either so also doesn't count as prior art.
You might be able to argue for the last official version of GS/OS for the Apple IIgs as being prior art in that it shipped with Ethernet-supporting code in the binaries but without enabling it for end users. Unless they tailored their definition of an operating system to exclude GS/OS or something else disqualifies it (such as never being officially enabled that code outside of internal development of the never-shipped Apple IIgs Ethernet card AFAIK).
IMO this is a business method patent that should not be patentable due to it being blatantly anti-competitive.
Personally, I have found myself wanting the ability to use my iPhone while walking or having it in my pocket without having to take it out.
I mean the walking part I can do... Just not well seeing having to look down at the device or making my arms tired holding it up in my face. If I could some how use the iPhone in my pocket to text or surf and see the text in front of my face rather than looking down all the time would be a plus.
Baseball cap plus iPhone-mounting clip to the bill, with second iPhone or iPod Touch in pocket, each running an app that maps touches on one to the interface on the other.
Just needs Apple to either allow background apps or an app that can run other apps.