The subduction zone isn't exactly the narrow strip of ocean where the plates meet, you know. Where do think that volcano in your backyard came from, exactly?
That depends on how you define "largest," I guess. From your own link...
Susan Hough, a seismologist of the US Geological Survey, has recently estimated the earthquake magnitudes as "right around magnitude 7. Possibly a bit below, possibly a bit above, but not as big as 7.5."
Now, 7 is a big earthquake. There have been many 7+ earthquakes in California since it was settled, however. In particular the 1906 San Francisco quake was estimated as quite close to an 8.
The New Madrid quakes were felt from much further away because of the geology of the surrounding areas, not the actual amount of energy released. Energy from earthquakes in California, and the rest of the west coast, doesn't propagate as easily through the already heavily fractured rock.
Regarding the Nintendo DS comment, he is referring to the DSi here, not the plain DS or DS lite. The DSi has an SD slot that can be used for photos or music, although I don't believe mp3 is a supported format.
Also, it would be hypocritical for him to make such a big deal about how the previous administration handled Katrina, and then essentially do little besides call an oil company names in the media.
I don't entirely disagree with this sentiment, but it is important to remember there is a *big* difference between a natural disaster and a man-made disaster, especially when considering who should cover the cleanup bill.
In my experience, the total number of people paying with cash is fairly small, but of those people, a fair number do use 50s and 100s. If cash is your primary method of payment, you don't really want to carry around a whole lot of 20s. Cash gets bulky pretty easily.
Just bad word choice. Using "atheistic" to describe a lack of formal, organized religion may not be entirely accurate, but it is still pretty clear what he meant.
Hold on, we're talking about software repositories here, not package managers. Did NeXT actually have remote software repositories? If it did, that feature was certainly not carried forward to OS X along with the package manager.
Total silence really is abnormal, even out in the country. The sound of water, wind, and animal life may be much quieter than the city, but it's very rare to find a place completely absent of sound, without creating such an environment artificially.
You or I don't learn a new keyboard in 30 seconds, but Scotty does... That's the point of the scene. It is a demonstration that he is such a technical genius that he can pick up and effectively use an unfamiliar, obsolete technology in such a short time frame.
Go back and watch the scene again when you have a chance. He's learning how to type as he goes - he gets faster and faster as the scene progresses. You might not know where to start with punch cards, but they still speak and write English in Star Trek, and keyboards are conveniently labeled.
As the operator of a motor vehicle, which is a dangerous machine, it's up to you to act responsibly. It's more than just your life at stake when you drive recklessly. A bicyclist has little chance of damaging anyone but himself if he's reckless.
This is exactly the attitude that gives bicyclists a bad name. A reckless bicyclist can easily cause a fatal accident if a car loses control while trying to avoid wiping the bicyclist in question out. It is the responsibility of both parties to drive or ride safely.
Absolutely drivers have a responsibility to drive safely, but bicyclists who wish to use the road must assume the same responsibilities, those who do not are simply dangerous obstacles. Most of the behaviors the GP was complaining about are not legal for *any* occupant of the road. You must stop at every stop sign and red light. You cannot merge into traffic without waiting for a safe opportunity.
Guild Wars doesn't have much in common with a traditional MMORPG anyway. Why would it use similar travel mechanics when the rest of the game has so little in common? At its heart, it is a scaled up Diablo clone, with instanced towns and waiting areas taking the place of battle.net chat channels.
As it currently stands in WoW, you can get to the most remote places in the world in roughly 10 minutes from any point with a little planning, and you can spend most of that time AFK. You do need to stand up and pee once in a while, right? Trash mobs in the dungeons are a much bigger time sink than the travel, frankly.
Obviously traffic laws are not consistent from state to state, or nation to nation, but here in WA, you are allowed to exceed the speed limit while passing on a two lane highway, because lingering in an oncoming lane is extremely dangerous.
a person following a vehicle driving at less than the legal maximum speed and desiring to pass such vehicle may exceed the speed limit, subject to the provisions of RCW 46.61.120 on highways having only one lane of traffic in each direction, at only such a speed and for only such a distance as is necessary to complete the pass with a reasonable margin of safety.
I'm curious, do you unplug all your network hardware when you're not actively using it? By your logic, a cable/dsl modem and router are as useful as a light bulb in a cupboard a good deal of the time as well.
By their nature laptops are fairly power efficient, especially when idle, and a good chunk of their power draw is from the display, which is non-functional in this case anyway. I'd wager that a headless laptop would draw less power as a DVR than a set-top DVR from your cable or satellite company, and a laptop as a home server would certainly draw a lot less power than a desktop in the same role.
Lets be honest here, a screenless laptop is likely pulling a lot less than 100W even at full load, and a TV box or home server is a lot more useful than a light bulb you can't see.
I don't know about WotC, but it is common practice for publishers to buy back out of print and discontinued stock. I worked for a major general merchandise retailer for a while and we shipped back 3-4 40lb boxes of books a month to our distributor, plus a bag of covers from the paperbacks, which they had us destroy.
You're creating a false dichotomy here - Blizzard can sue MDY for creating and selling a hack that affects their software, AND work to secure it better. One makes headlines, and you'll never hear about the other.
If someone breaks into my residence, I'm going to work to secure it better, but I sure hope the responsible parties still get punished.
You think Blizzard should get a free pass because their stuff is shiny and you have to pay for it?
Not exactly, I think I made my position pretty clear.
It's perfectly ok to do whatever you want to the software on your own computer, as long as it doesn't negatively impact other people. Once it does, there should be consequences. Should Blizzard have done something about Glider? Absolutely, they have an obligation to enforce a level playing field in their game. Did they do the right thing? Maybe not, but that is an entirely separate discussion.
That crap Blizzard pulled with Glider? Don't even think about it. People will grudgingly put up with it from them, but you won't be able to pull it off. This is my computer and I very well might break your program in new and interesting ways. I bought it. I can do that.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this I cannot.
People "put up" with Blizzard trying to put down a *cheat* in their MMO because the use of said piece of software directly impacts the game experience of other players. That is not acceptable, and Blizzard is well within the boundaries of reasonable behavior to take action against it.
Break your software in whatever creative ways you like, as long as it doesn't negatively affect other users of that software.
Which is not much different than the school telling the student to submit their essay to the school paper for printing or they fail the class.
If I blackmail you for $100, no sane person is going to agree that I actually have a right to that money. Acts under coercion do not imply consent.
I don't know about you, but I don't recall signing any contracts with the school system when I was in high school, certainly not any transferring the rights of works produced for school projects.
The same applies for college, the only thing I recall signing for them was the check for tuition.
If graphics cards didn't need direct, high bandwidth, low latency access to the processor and system memory, we'd all still be using PCI graphics. AGP was specifically developed because newer, faster graphics cards needed direct, high bandwidth access to system memory... Textures don't magically appear in video memory, you know.
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The subduction zone isn't exactly the narrow strip of ocean where the plates meet, you know. Where do think that volcano in your backyard came from, exactly?
Susan Hough, a seismologist of the US Geological Survey, has recently estimated the earthquake magnitudes as "right around magnitude 7. Possibly a bit below, possibly a bit above, but not as big as 7.5."
Now, 7 is a big earthquake. There have been many 7+ earthquakes in California since it was settled, however. In particular the 1906 San Francisco quake was estimated as quite close to an 8. The New Madrid quakes were felt from much further away because of the geology of the surrounding areas, not the actual amount of energy released. Energy from earthquakes in California, and the rest of the west coast, doesn't propagate as easily through the already heavily fractured rock.
Regarding the Nintendo DS comment, he is referring to the DSi here, not the plain DS or DS lite. The DSi has an SD slot that can be used for photos or music, although I don't believe mp3 is a supported format.
Also, it would be hypocritical for him to make such a big deal about how the previous administration handled Katrina, and then essentially do little besides call an oil company names in the media.
I don't entirely disagree with this sentiment, but it is important to remember there is a *big* difference between a natural disaster and a man-made disaster, especially when considering who should cover the cleanup bill.
Meanwhile, the stores you spend them at send them all back to the bank. Ooops.
In my experience, the total number of people paying with cash is fairly small, but of those people, a fair number do use 50s and 100s. If cash is your primary method of payment, you don't really want to carry around a whole lot of 20s. Cash gets bulky pretty easily.
Just bad word choice. Using "atheistic" to describe a lack of formal, organized religion may not be entirely accurate, but it is still pretty clear what he meant.
Hold on, we're talking about software repositories here, not package managers. Did NeXT actually have remote software repositories? If it did, that feature was certainly not carried forward to OS X along with the package manager.
2400ft is hardly the "upper atmosphere."
Total silence really is abnormal, even out in the country. The sound of water, wind, and animal life may be much quieter than the city, but it's very rare to find a place completely absent of sound, without creating such an environment artificially.
You or I don't learn a new keyboard in 30 seconds, but Scotty does... That's the point of the scene. It is a demonstration that he is such a technical genius that he can pick up and effectively use an unfamiliar, obsolete technology in such a short time frame.
Go back and watch the scene again when you have a chance. He's learning how to type as he goes - he gets faster and faster as the scene progresses. You might not know where to start with punch cards, but they still speak and write English in Star Trek, and keyboards are conveniently labeled.
As the operator of a motor vehicle, which is a dangerous machine, it's up to you to act responsibly. It's more than just your life at stake when you drive recklessly. A bicyclist has little chance of damaging anyone but himself if he's reckless.
This is exactly the attitude that gives bicyclists a bad name. A reckless bicyclist can easily cause a fatal accident if a car loses control while trying to avoid wiping the bicyclist in question out. It is the responsibility of both parties to drive or ride safely.
Absolutely drivers have a responsibility to drive safely, but bicyclists who wish to use the road must assume the same responsibilities, those who do not are simply dangerous obstacles. Most of the behaviors the GP was complaining about are not legal for *any* occupant of the road. You must stop at every stop sign and red light. You cannot merge into traffic without waiting for a safe opportunity.
Guild Wars doesn't have much in common with a traditional MMORPG anyway. Why would it use similar travel mechanics when the rest of the game has so little in common? At its heart, it is a scaled up Diablo clone, with instanced towns and waiting areas taking the place of battle.net chat channels.
As it currently stands in WoW, you can get to the most remote places in the world in roughly 10 minutes from any point with a little planning, and you can spend most of that time AFK. You do need to stand up and pee once in a while, right? Trash mobs in the dungeons are a much bigger time sink than the travel, frankly.
a person following a vehicle driving at less than the legal maximum speed and desiring to pass such vehicle may exceed the speed limit, subject to the provisions of RCW 46.61.120 on highways having only one lane of traffic in each direction, at only such a speed and for only such a distance as is necessary to complete the pass with a reasonable margin of safety.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.61.425
I'm curious, do you unplug all your network hardware when you're not actively using it? By your logic, a cable/dsl modem and router are as useful as a light bulb in a cupboard a good deal of the time as well.
By their nature laptops are fairly power efficient, especially when idle, and a good chunk of their power draw is from the display, which is non-functional in this case anyway. I'd wager that a headless laptop would draw less power as a DVR than a set-top DVR from your cable or satellite company, and a laptop as a home server would certainly draw a lot less power than a desktop in the same role.
Lets be honest here, a screenless laptop is likely pulling a lot less than 100W even at full load, and a TV box or home server is a lot more useful than a light bulb you can't see.
I don't know about WotC, but it is common practice for publishers to buy back out of print and discontinued stock. I worked for a major general merchandise retailer for a while and we shipped back 3-4 40lb boxes of books a month to our distributor, plus a bag of covers from the paperbacks, which they had us destroy.
If someone breaks into my residence, I'm going to work to secure it better, but I sure hope the responsible parties still get punished.
You think Blizzard should get a free pass because their stuff is shiny and you have to pay for it?
Not exactly, I think I made my position pretty clear.
It's perfectly ok to do whatever you want to the software on your own computer, as long as it doesn't negatively impact other people. Once it does, there should be consequences. Should Blizzard have done something about Glider? Absolutely, they have an obligation to enforce a level playing field in their game. Did they do the right thing? Maybe not, but that is an entirely separate discussion.
That crap Blizzard pulled with Glider? Don't even think about it. People will grudgingly put up with it from them, but you won't be able to pull it off. This is my computer and I very well might break your program in new and interesting ways. I bought it. I can do that.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this I cannot.
People "put up" with Blizzard trying to put down a *cheat* in their MMO because the use of said piece of software directly impacts the game experience of other players. That is not acceptable, and Blizzard is well within the boundaries of reasonable behavior to take action against it.
Break your software in whatever creative ways you like, as long as it doesn't negatively affect other users of that software.
Which is not much different than the school telling the student to submit their essay to the school paper for printing or they fail the class. If I blackmail you for $100, no sane person is going to agree that I actually have a right to that money. Acts under coercion do not imply consent.
I don't know about you, but I don't recall signing any contracts with the school system when I was in high school, certainly not any transferring the rights of works produced for school projects.
The same applies for college, the only thing I recall signing for them was the check for tuition.
If graphics cards didn't need direct, high bandwidth, low latency access to the processor and system memory, we'd all still be using PCI graphics. AGP was specifically developed because newer, faster graphics cards needed direct, high bandwidth access to system memory... Textures don't magically appear in video memory, you know.
I had a Warcraft *ONE* CD that was Win/Mac compatible. Not all the CDs were, but they were available.