From the department of: because-your-friends-are-clearly-funnier-then-the-professionals
And that's an error that can't be passed off on the submitter or the article.
Then again (to provide a lame excuse), departments tend not to include commas. It could have been "because your friends are clearly funnier, then the professionals", as a partial ordered list of funny people, that got its comma stripped.
why is this thing running windows? Because of all the applications you can get for it, of course. Sure it's a voting machine, but you can also surf the internet with it, edit photographs, play games, make phone calls...
You mean if a restaurant hasn't got any white tuna in I can't go and buy a steak?
Not if they only have duck.
Colonel Hall: [reading new menu] Duck with orange; duck with cherries; duck surprise. Mrs. Hall: What's duck surprise? Basil Fawlty: Er... that's duck without oranges or cherries. Colonel Hall: I mean is this all there is: duck? Basil Fawlty: Yes... done of course in three extremely different ways. Colonel Hall: And what do you do if you don't like duck? Basil Fawlty: Well, if you don't like duck... you're rather stuck.
Sure, Funny. It's just that people have done similar things with paper ballot boxes from certain districts after an election when they were in transit to be counted.
Agreed, and for something as simple as a vote counting system it should be easy, save for all the extra code wrapped around the counting function that seeks to create an attractive user interface that has just as much control over the parameter values fed into the counting function.
I'd trust the audit of a system using physical wired toggle switches over one using a touch-screen.
Want to really help? "Accidentally" run over the crate of voting machines, or allow it to fall off a bridge into a deep river. Do democracy a favor and destroy these abominations, you tech-savvy butterfingers!
Either there has to be a second place where democratvotes is incremented or no Democrat would get more than three votes per voting machine. I'd think both would be a design problem, regardless of the coder's intent.
Freestyle Mode - Just as it sounds. You're presented with a blank, scrolling note canvas that allows you to just drum away forever. No challenges here. But like with the other modes, you can select different drum samples. So if you dig 80's electronic drum sounds - and wanted to try and re-create your own cover of a certain Rick Astley song - no one will stop you. Interestingly enough, you can also play music from your hard drive to drum along with. The only bummer is there is no way to record what you've done in-game to send to friends. So expect a lot of Youtube videos this fall.
Why in hell would I pay a company $5 more dollars for the same songs?
Shipping & handling?
Seriously though, it's just the license fee to get the songs into the new game, which is why they don't care if you actually own the original Rock Band at all. If they were included on the new game disk, it would have increased the price by $5.
The DLC content probably had a broader license to allow downloading, and that license allows you to get them ported for no additional fee.
If you need a business policy then the party is probably a zoning violation (aka "contravenes planning law"). If you're noisy and the police come that's double jeopardy.
Oh, well then that's OK then. So long as you're noisy about it, you're fine.
(Yeah, I don't actually think that's what you meant; I'm just trying to be Funny.)
But a standalone fact is that racism is indeed terrorism. When you call a Black person "nigger", you are referring to a long history of abuse, often lethal (and worse) of Black people.
So sticks and stones may break your bones but names should get people sent to Guantanamo?
I can put a dollop of whipped cream on my cat's head, and when she gets on the washstand and looks in the mirror and sees it, she immediately licks her paw, reaches up to the top of her head, and wipes it off (and eats it.) She always gets it all, and turns her head this way and that while watching the mirror to make sure.
I've long suspected cats can recognize themselves and others in mirrors. As kittens, it isn't so clear. As adolescents, they can be confused into investigating why they can see through a wall on the mirror's side but not on the other. They learn to recognize how mirrors work, but most tend to show it by ignoring the mirror until shown as you did the utility of it.
It's not just that blinks are way too slow, but that she blinks way too often. According to Wikipedia:
"On average, a blink takes approximately 300 to 400 milliseconds...A person approximately blinks once every two to ten seconds."
Have you not seen the State of the Union address with Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi sitting behind the President? Pelosi is blinking up a storm while Dick Cheney hardly ever blinks. (Someone will likely find the clip from The Daily Show for this.)
If a sentence ends with a quotation, the punctuation goes inside the closing quote.
That depends whether the sentence or enclosing sentence is or is not a question or exclamation, and vice versa, alternately or both, or if you're British (or just ahead of the curve).
It used to be that if you wanted to learn how to write and punctuate properly, you'd read books and learn to emulate their style. Unfortunately more books are being written by people who've never read one, or at least never a properly edited one.
"Since no amount of cosmetic surgery will make actual human eyes larger, some girls are trying another way to up their cute quotient: extra-wide contact lenses!"
Well, there is the crazy shit known as "eye tattooing". It's still a young procedure and I don't know if they can blend a tattoo that close to the iris.
Then there's the opposite. I've looked at a beautiful simple lawn sculpture of a rabbit, thinking I've never seen one that detailed before in my life... then it twitched. And then it was so perfectly still again I thought I might have imagined the twitch. It would let you get within 5 feet before it decided you were too close. It wouldn't even turn its head to keep you in sight.
Oh, and then there's those certain portraits that have depressions on the eyes so that seem to follow you everywhere. Like they're painted on the inside of spoons.
Actually, I've been wanting to build a computer with one of those small motherboards inside a scaled-down old PC case and small monitor. I'm wanting for a reduction of 8:5 so I can dress up a slot-load DVD drive to look like a scaled-down 8" floppy drive. You can find small mice (designed for travel with laptops) no problem. But finding a scaled down keyboard is damn near impossible. Most compact keyboards have the same standard key size, just less bezel around the keyboard. It's easier to find keyboards with oversized keys.
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From the department of:
because-your-friends-are-clearly-funnier-then-the-professionals
And that's an error that can't be passed off on the submitter or the article.
Then again (to provide a lame excuse), departments tend not to include commas. It could have been "because your friends are clearly funnier, then the professionals", as a partial ordered list of funny people, that got its comma stripped.
Anyway, I tagged it "typoindepartment".
(The Internet is infecting you.)
why is this thing running windows? ...
Because of all the applications you can get for it, of course. Sure it's a voting machine, but you can also surf the internet with it, edit photographs, play games, make phone calls
Administer and operate it remotely....
You mean if a restaurant hasn't got any white tuna in I can't go and buy a steak?
Not if they only have duck.
Colonel Hall: [reading new menu] Duck with orange; duck with cherries; duck surprise.
Mrs. Hall: What's duck surprise?
Basil Fawlty: Er... that's duck without oranges or cherries.
Colonel Hall: I mean is this all there is: duck?
Basil Fawlty: Yes... done of course in three extremely different ways.
Colonel Hall: And what do you do if you don't like duck?
Basil Fawlty: Well, if you don't like duck... you're rather stuck.
Sure, Funny. It's just that people have done similar things with paper ballot boxes from certain districts after an election when they were in transit to be counted.
Agreed, and for something as simple as a vote counting system it should be easy, save for all the extra code wrapped around the counting function that seeks to create an attractive user interface that has just as much control over the parameter values fed into the counting function.
I'd trust the audit of a system using physical wired toggle switches over one using a touch-screen.
why is this thing running windows? anti virus software, come on guys.. will never get anywhere unless you start out right.
Do you know the source to your compiler? Do you know the source of the compiler used to compile your compiler? Ad infinitum?
You mean they'd never get one vote, and you're right.
Want to really help? "Accidentally" run over the crate of voting machines, or allow it to fall off a bridge into a deep river. Do democracy a favor and destroy these abominations, you tech-savvy butterfingers!
Ahem... before the election.
Either there has to be a second place where democratvotes is incremented or no Democrat would get more than three votes per voting machine. I'd think both would be a design problem, regardless of the coder's intent.
Freestyle Mode - Just as it sounds. You're presented with a blank, scrolling note canvas that allows you to just drum away forever. No challenges here. But like with the other modes, you can select different drum samples. So if you dig 80's electronic drum sounds - and wanted to try and re-create your own cover of a certain Rick Astley song - no one will stop you. Interestingly enough, you can also play music from your hard drive to drum along with. The only bummer is there is no way to record what you've done in-game to send to friends. So expect a lot of Youtube videos this fall.
Somebody should tell Steve Wiebe.
Why in hell would I pay a company $5 more dollars for the same songs?
Shipping & handling?
Seriously though, it's just the license fee to get the songs into the new game, which is why they don't care if you actually own the original Rock Band at all. If they were included on the new game disk, it would have increased the price by $5.
The DLC content probably had a broader license to allow downloading, and that license allows you to get them ported for no additional fee.
If you need a business policy then the party is probably a zoning violation (aka "contravenes planning law"). If you're noisy and the police come that's double jeopardy.
Oh, well then that's OK then. So long as you're noisy about it, you're fine.
(Yeah, I don't actually think that's what you meant; I'm just trying to be Funny.)
probably does not cover the property of others on your premises; that is their responsibility
Best to post a disclaimer to that fact at the door which everyone is required to read and agree. And get signatures at the door.
So sticks and stones may break your bones but names should get people sent to Guantanamo?
I can put a dollop of whipped cream on my cat's head, and when she gets on the washstand and looks in the mirror and sees it, she immediately licks her paw, reaches up to the top of her head, and wipes it off (and eats it.) She always gets it all, and turns her head this way and that while watching the mirror to make sure.
I've long suspected cats can recognize themselves and others in mirrors. As kittens, it isn't so clear. As adolescents, they can be confused into investigating why they can see through a wall on the mirror's side but not on the other. They learn to recognize how mirrors work, but most tend to show it by ignoring the mirror until shown as you did the utility of it.
So... what was the final result, or is it still going through the courts?
I think the blinks are too slow. When you see someone blink you don't get to watch her eyelid go dooowwwnnn then uuupppp.
Really, Dr. Jones?
Microsoft already ensures that the controllers are compatible across games.
Tell that to my Rock Band guitar and my Guitar Hero II and III games.
It's not just that blinks are way too slow, but that she blinks way too often. According to Wikipedia:
"On average, a blink takes approximately 300 to 400 milliseconds...A person approximately blinks once every two to ten seconds."
Have you not seen the State of the Union address with Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi sitting behind the President? Pelosi is blinking up a storm while Dick Cheney hardly ever blinks. (Someone will likely find the clip from The Daily Show for this.)
I don't know which is more disturbing.
If I burn a Linux boot CD to a Music CD-R, where do I go to get my media surcharge refunded?
If a sentence ends with a quotation, the punctuation goes inside the closing quote.
That depends whether the sentence or enclosing sentence is or is not a question or exclamation, and vice versa, alternately or both, or if you're British (or just ahead of the curve).
It used to be that if you wanted to learn how to write and punctuate properly, you'd read books and learn to emulate their style. Unfortunately more books are being written by people who've never read one, or at least never a properly edited one.
Broken link in parent, try this
"Since no amount of cosmetic surgery will make actual human eyes larger, some girls are trying another way to up their cute quotient: extra-wide contact lenses!"
Well, there is the crazy shit known as "eye tattooing". It's still a young procedure and I don't know if they can blend a tattoo that close to the iris.
Then there's the opposite. I've looked at a beautiful simple lawn sculpture of a rabbit, thinking I've never seen one that detailed before in my life... then it twitched. And then it was so perfectly still again I thought I might have imagined the twitch. It would let you get within 5 feet before it decided you were too close. It wouldn't even turn its head to keep you in sight.
Oh, and then there's those certain portraits that have depressions on the eyes so that seem to follow you everywhere. Like they're painted on the inside of spoons.
Actually, I've been wanting to build a computer with one of those small motherboards inside a scaled-down old PC case and small monitor. I'm wanting for a reduction of 8:5 so I can dress up a slot-load DVD drive to look like a scaled-down 8" floppy drive. You can find small mice (designed for travel with laptops) no problem. But finding a scaled down keyboard is damn near impossible. Most compact keyboards have the same standard key size, just less bezel around the keyboard. It's easier to find keyboards with oversized keys.
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