That's what I do on my Windows laptop; I move the taskbar to one side of the screen, so I can use the full height of the rest of the screen. It would be nice if MacOS allowed this, but the top-of-screen menu bar for all applications seems to be inherent to not only their interface design but the very MacOS brand. I always set the dock at the bottom to autohide.
Sylvester McCoy's umbrella had a question mark incorporated into the design of its handle.
The phrase "Doctor who?" and similar ones have appeared as a running joke throughout the run of the series, including a "Doctor Whoever-you-are" from Tegan when she first met the Doctor in "Logopolis." The only time the Doctor has actually been referred to as "Doctor Who" in the series was in a First Doctor story, "The War Machines" (1966); this is acknowledged as a mistake. The title of the series comes from the first story, in which hapless humans Ian and Barbara assume his name is Dr. Foreman (not too outlandish an assumption, as their student Susan Foreman calls him her grandfather) and he responds, "Doctor who?" Recent episodes, leading up to the 50th anniversary special, make much of the fact that we do not know the Doctor's real name, making the question "Doctor who?" part of the actual storyline.
There were two Doctor Who movies in the 1960s, starring Peter Cushing as a character who is actually called "Doctor Who," but they are considered non-canon.
See now, I think the thimerosal hysteria is ridiculous, but I see your point. If I had kids, I wouldn't want them injected with mercury compounds either. Not because of unfounded autism fear -- because it's mercury. Vaccination = good, mercury = bad, autism = fad.
True, there are other criteria besides whether they made money.
But I would suggest that how much money they may have made is irrelevant. They air programs with the goal of making money, whether they succeed in that goal or not. What's important is the fact that Viacom tried to make money using a clip that they didn't get permission to use.
D&D is just too complicated. First edition D&D had so many rules and tables that you had to look up a table whenever you wanted your character to do anything, unless you'd played so long that you had all the tables memorized. Third edition went a long way toward ironing out a lot of that, but it still has problems. Basically anything that sends you back to the rulebook when you thought you knew how it worked needs to be simplified.
Things I think need to be fixed about D&D:
1. Turning undead. Its rules are totally different from everything else. Consolidate. 2. Special combat maneuvers. Consolidate the rules for disarming, tripping, grappling, etc. 3. Attacks of opportunity. Totally unnecessary complication. Get rid of them. 4. Actions. The rules governing what you can do in a round are too complex. Simplify. 5. Spells. Each one has its own set of rules, and there are hundreds. Consolidate them.
I have so many other criticisms, but no time to list them all. Basically, if it requires a table, it's too complicated and should be streamlined, in my opinion. Anything that detracts from fun is a bad thing to have in a game.
Let's look at the articles objectively (if that's even possible). Did Cheney commit any crimes, according to Kucinich? Note that lying in a political speech is not a crime (nearly every politician in the country would be behind bars if it were). Neither is lying to Congress, unless it's under oath, and we know how fervently the Bush Administration opposes testifying under oath. It's also not a crime to break a solemn promise, like the oath of office an elected official takes. These may be reasons not to reelect somebody (except that America did), but they're not crimes.
Article I: Cheney lied about Iraqi WMDs. Reprehensible, yes. Cynical and morally bankrupt, yes. Criminal, unfortunately not.
Article II: Cheney lied about a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. But again, not a crime under any law.
Article III: Cheney's been rattling his saber at Iran. It may be foreign policy by sledgehammer rather than Xacto knife, but there's no law against this either.
So although I would really, really like to see Cheney removed from office, Kucinich's articles of impeachment don't contain any actual crimes for which he could be tried. Not that that's stopped impeachment proceedings before, but there was a better case against Clinton, because he actually testified under oath. We have some truly reprehensible people leading our country, and they should be stopped before they get us into even more trouble, but unfortunately this isn't going to do it.
Probably the "wall" I remember most was this game for my old Nintendo 64 called "Rocket: Robot on Wheels." It was originally going to be called "Sprocket," but then they found out there was already a game called Sprocket, so they had to change it.
Rocket was this little red robot, basically a unicycle with a head and no arms, just a tractor beam. The game was very creative with this, though -- you could pick up objects with the tractor beam and carry them around, or even throw them by moving forward and then releasing them. You could also tractor onto moving objects to be carried along with them. The worlds were fully 3D; it had a very good physics engine.
Rocket had no built-in weapons, but sometimes there were bombs you could pick up and throw. It was very hard to get the hang of picking up a bomb, moving backward, moving forward in the right direction, and releasing the bomb at just the right time so it would go where you wanted without blowing yourself up.
Well, in the final world, after getting past a few complex obstacles that took about 10 minutes, there was a place where there was a giant fan coming at you in a room where you couldn't escape. There were bombs you could throw to knock out the blades, if they didn't bounce off and possibly kill you. If you didn't knock out all 4 blades before the fan got to you, you died. There were holes in the floor, so you had to avoid those or you'd fall into oblivion. There were some flying enemies that were trying to kill you too. And if you ran out of energy (each time you died you'd lose energy), you'd have to start the whole level over again.
I'm fairly patient, but after about 20 times this became too much. I never finished this game. Beautiful, innovative gameplay, and then it suddenly stopped at this do-or-die moment. I never saw the end boss.
After all, if the percentage of all emails that are spam actually REACHED 100%, nobody would use email and spamming would be pointless. Attempts to keep Internet email useful, therefore, are also what is keeping spam alive.
If we're talking about a movie (which everybody seems to be doing), the "movie" is the film that's being fed through the projector at a theater near you. A DVD contains a digitized version of that film and its soundtrack that has good enough resolution for a TV, but it'd be pretty blurry and sound pretty bland if that version were somehow shown in a movie theater. (And I'm not even mentioning films that get panned and scanned for 4:3 screens.) I suppose there are DVDs with Dolby Surround, and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray movies will have higher quality still, but I still don't think they'll have the same image resolution as the film.
Then there are movies formatted for PSP or other tiny low-resolution players -- how much quality reduction can there be before it's no longer really the movie?
My point is that although the digital version can be copied, it's already one step removed from the original to begin with. There will always be people who want to see movies in the theaters, as long as those theaters have decent sound, cleaned and focused projector lenses, non-sticky floors, etc. You are already buying/downloading a low-quality copy.
This could be just a substitution cipher, in which Mr. Justice Smith has contrived to make the first ten characters "smithycode." The lack of spaces between words, though, makes it tough for me to decipher -- though I'm sure there are people out there better at deciphering than I.
We have ample proof that the RIAA can and will keep prices high, even in the face of decreasing demand. People are buying fewer CDs right now, the RIAA itself tells us. (Of course, they're blaming the decrease in demand on illegal filesharing -- instead of, say, the high price of CDs, or the crappy music they decide to release on them.) But are they lowering their prices?
I have three Palm cradles (and one Palm... long story); these things are heavier than they need to be, and I'm glad, because it keeps them from being top-heavy and easily knocked over when the Palm is actually in them. I haven't taken one apart yet, but there must be a weight in there.
If someone steals your wallet, or your credit card, or something physical, you can look and see that it's gone. But if someone clones your Speedpass, you don't know until your next credit card statement comes.
OK, this argument's weak because:
1. Credit cards can be cloned; unscrupulous employees can swipe them through their own reader while they have them
2. Speedpass apparently calls customers when unusual activity appears on their account (though they get to define "unusual")
3. It is usually possible to more closely monitor your credit card information online, instead of just waiting for a monthly dead-tree statement
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That's what I do on my Windows laptop; I move the taskbar to one side of the screen, so I can use the full height of the rest of the screen. It would be nice if MacOS allowed this, but the top-of-screen menu bar for all applications seems to be inherent to not only their interface design but the very MacOS brand. I always set the dock at the bottom to autohide.
I think you've just described internships.
Sylvester McCoy's umbrella had a question mark incorporated into the design of its handle.
The phrase "Doctor who?" and similar ones have appeared as a running joke throughout the run of the series, including a "Doctor Whoever-you-are" from Tegan when she first met the Doctor in "Logopolis." The only time the Doctor has actually been referred to as "Doctor Who" in the series was in a First Doctor story, "The War Machines" (1966); this is acknowledged as a mistake. The title of the series comes from the first story, in which hapless humans Ian and Barbara assume his name is Dr. Foreman (not too outlandish an assumption, as their student Susan Foreman calls him her grandfather) and he responds, "Doctor who?" Recent episodes, leading up to the 50th anniversary special, make much of the fact that we do not know the Doctor's real name, making the question "Doctor who?" part of the actual storyline.
There were two Doctor Who movies in the 1960s, starring Peter Cushing as a character who is actually called "Doctor Who," but they are considered non-canon.
See now, I think the thimerosal hysteria is ridiculous, but I see your point. If I had kids, I wouldn't want them injected with mercury compounds either. Not because of unfounded autism fear -- because it's mercury. Vaccination = good, mercury = bad, autism = fad.
True, there are other criteria besides whether they made money.
But I would suggest that how much money they may have made is irrelevant. They air programs with the goal of making money, whether they succeed in that goal or not. What's important is the fact that Viacom tried to make money using a clip that they didn't get permission to use.
D&D is just too complicated. First edition D&D had so many rules and tables that you had to look up a table whenever you wanted your character to do anything, unless you'd played so long that you had all the tables memorized. Third edition went a long way toward ironing out a lot of that, but it still has problems. Basically anything that sends you back to the rulebook when you thought you knew how it worked needs to be simplified.
Things I think need to be fixed about D&D:
1. Turning undead. Its rules are totally different from everything else. Consolidate.
2. Special combat maneuvers. Consolidate the rules for disarming, tripping, grappling, etc.
3. Attacks of opportunity. Totally unnecessary complication. Get rid of them.
4. Actions. The rules governing what you can do in a round are too complex. Simplify.
5. Spells. Each one has its own set of rules, and there are hundreds. Consolidate them.
I have so many other criticisms, but no time to list them all. Basically, if it requires a table, it's too complicated and should be streamlined, in my opinion. Anything that detracts from fun is a bad thing to have in a game.
Let's look at the articles objectively (if that's even possible). Did Cheney commit any crimes, according to Kucinich? Note that lying in a political speech is not a crime (nearly every politician in the country would be behind bars if it were). Neither is lying to Congress, unless it's under oath, and we know how fervently the Bush Administration opposes testifying under oath. It's also not a crime to break a solemn promise, like the oath of office an elected official takes. These may be reasons not to reelect somebody (except that America did), but they're not crimes.
Article I: Cheney lied about Iraqi WMDs. Reprehensible, yes. Cynical and morally bankrupt, yes. Criminal, unfortunately not.
Article II: Cheney lied about a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. But again, not a crime under any law.
Article III: Cheney's been rattling his saber at Iran. It may be foreign policy by sledgehammer rather than Xacto knife, but there's no law against this either.
So although I would really, really like to see Cheney removed from office, Kucinich's articles of impeachment don't contain any actual crimes for which he could be tried. Not that that's stopped impeachment proceedings before, but there was a better case against Clinton, because he actually testified under oath. We have some truly reprehensible people leading our country, and they should be stopped before they get us into even more trouble, but unfortunately this isn't going to do it.
Probably the "wall" I remember most was this game for my old Nintendo 64 called "Rocket: Robot on Wheels." It was originally going to be called "Sprocket," but then they found out there was already a game called Sprocket, so they had to change it.
Rocket was this little red robot, basically a unicycle with a head and no arms, just a tractor beam. The game was very creative with this, though -- you could pick up objects with the tractor beam and carry them around, or even throw them by moving forward and then releasing them. You could also tractor onto moving objects to be carried along with them. The worlds were fully 3D; it had a very good physics engine.
Rocket had no built-in weapons, but sometimes there were bombs you could pick up and throw. It was very hard to get the hang of picking up a bomb, moving backward, moving forward in the right direction, and releasing the bomb at just the right time so it would go where you wanted without blowing yourself up.
Well, in the final world, after getting past a few complex obstacles that took about 10 minutes, there was a place where there was a giant fan coming at you in a room where you couldn't escape. There were bombs you could throw to knock out the blades, if they didn't bounce off and possibly kill you. If you didn't knock out all 4 blades before the fan got to you, you died. There were holes in the floor, so you had to avoid those or you'd fall into oblivion. There were some flying enemies that were trying to kill you too. And if you ran out of energy (each time you died you'd lose energy), you'd have to start the whole level over again.
I'm fairly patient, but after about 20 times this became too much. I never finished this game. Beautiful, innovative gameplay, and then it suddenly stopped at this do-or-die moment. I never saw the end boss.
After all, if the percentage of all emails that are spam actually REACHED 100%, nobody would use email and spamming would be pointless. Attempts to keep Internet email useful, therefore, are also what is keeping spam alive.
One question this brings up is: What is content?
If we're talking about a movie (which everybody seems to be doing), the "movie" is the film that's being fed through the projector at a theater near you. A DVD contains a digitized version of that film and its soundtrack that has good enough resolution for a TV, but it'd be pretty blurry and sound pretty bland if that version were somehow shown in a movie theater. (And I'm not even mentioning films that get panned and scanned for 4:3 screens.) I suppose there are DVDs with Dolby Surround, and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray movies will have higher quality still, but I still don't think they'll have the same image resolution as the film.
Then there are movies formatted for PSP or other tiny low-resolution players -- how much quality reduction can there be before it's no longer really the movie?
My point is that although the digital version can be copied, it's already one step removed from the original to begin with. There will always be people who want to see movies in the theaters, as long as those theaters have decent sound, cleaned and focused projector lenses, non-sticky floors, etc. You are already buying/downloading a low-quality copy.
Yes, I've gone through it pretty carefully and been unable to find more single italicized letters than
... (h)is ... realit(y) ... (a)ble ... techniqu(e)s ... wa(s) ... bein(g) ... e(r)adicated ... se(q)uence ... pre(v)alent
smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzv
And these are the paragraph numbers and words I found them in, for those who wish to look at the original ruling and confirm:
1 Claimant(s)
2 clai(m)ant
3 (i)s (t)hat
4 (c)ynicism
5 f(o)r
6 prece(d)ed
7 T(e)mplar
8 New (J)ersey
9 res(e)arch
11 th(i)s
13 e(x)tinguished
14 (t)echnical
16 st(o)ry
18 (t)he
19 somethin(g)
20 grou(p)s
21 u(s)ed
23 w(a)s
25 do(c)uments
26 elsewh(e)re
27 Templ(a)rs
29 Clai(m)ants
30 (w)ith
31 o(f)
34 (k)ey
35 Plant(a)rd
37 intro(d)uced
38 manuscri(p)ts
40 ulti(m)ately
42 (q)uestions
43 embla(z)oned
This could be just a substitution cipher, in which Mr. Justice Smith has contrived to make the first ten characters "smithycode." The lack of spaces between words, though, makes it tough for me to decipher -- though I'm sure there are people out there better at deciphering than I.
We have ample proof that the RIAA can and will keep prices high, even in the face of decreasing demand. People are buying fewer CDs right now, the RIAA itself tells us. (Of course, they're blaming the decrease in demand on illegal filesharing -- instead of, say, the high price of CDs, or the crappy music they decide to release on them.) But are they lowering their prices?
I have three Palm cradles (and one Palm ... long story); these things are heavier than they need to be, and I'm glad, because it keeps them from being top-heavy and easily knocked over when the Palm is actually in them. I haven't taken one apart yet, but there must be a weight in there.
If someone steals your wallet, or your credit card, or something physical, you can look and see that it's gone. But if someone clones your Speedpass, you don't know until your next credit card statement comes.
OK, this argument's weak because:
1. Credit cards can be cloned; unscrupulous employees can swipe them through their own reader while they have them
2. Speedpass apparently calls customers when unusual activity appears on their account (though they get to define "unusual")
3. It is usually possible to more closely monitor your credit card information online, instead of just waiting for a monthly dead-tree statement
What's the URL for this statistic? And when that URL goes down, will that invalidate this Slashdot article?
What I always wonder in debates like this is how individual private citizens owning guns somehow leads to there being a militia.
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1. Everybody gets a gun.
2.
3. Profit!