2. eBay does something it doesn't have to -- lets you opt out.
Yeah, you just have to go down to the basement, the one where all the lights are out, and fill out a form found in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
"Cell phone bans have reduced cell phone use by drivers, but the perplexing thing is that they haven't reduced crashes,"
Now I'll admit I haven't read the article, nor do I have much clue about the ways the information has been gathered, but is it possible that the people who have stopped using their cell phones because of the bans are the good drivers who follow the rules of the road, and the bad drivers just shrug off 'yet another rule' that impedes their fun in a two ton speeding metal projectile?
You can filter it out when you get to see it every now and then.
Imagine having to watch one video after the other of people being maimed or killed, animals being abused, children being abused, most of them with a laugh track attached, and you have to do this for an average of forty hours a week for a year.
No, I doubt you would be able to just 'filter it out' in the long run, and if you ARE able to do that you're seriously not someone I want to know IRL. Humans are supposed to have emotions and empathy; a lack of both would be shown by being completely unaffected by such a job.
Still, might be a good time to get rid of MSFT stock, especially if Windows 9 is just as bad as 8.
Historically, it's like MS has been hitting one, missing one since Win98.
Win98 - decent for its time, if prone to BSODs. WinME - Let's pretend this never existed. WinXP - Massive improvement, especially after SP1 brought in an active-by-default firewall. Vista - Called WinME2 for good reason. Admittedly sounds to have improved with later SPs, never used it myself. Win7 - Again a good improvement, especially coming from XP. Win8 - Sounds to be a total disaster. Win9 - Completely unknown right now, of course, but in this list SHOULD be an improvement.
Close enough, really. According to severaldifferentsources internet access is had by around 84.5% of the population. Even if the remaining 15.5% are all law-abiding non-downloaders the 80% of the online population (~67.6% of the total population) are still quite a lot more than half the entire country.
So you're trying to grab the videos from a German domain?
Let me know how that works for you when it comes to any file with any kind of potentially copyrighted sound on it. HINT: This video is not available in your country because GEMA has not granted the respective rights.
Sounds more to me like he's describing events in a dream, not actual events in his past. That's not to say his ex-father didn't at one point beat him up, the rest of the post suggests that may have happened, but he wasn't suffering daily physical as I understand it.
Since I'm in an argumentative mood today, I went to take a look at the link. Sadly there's no list of the torrent's contents, but I trust that - following your own convictions regarding copyright lengths - you've checked that nothing written/recorded since 1992 is present in it?
I live in Germany, about ten miles from a major city, and my DSL is incapable of going above a 384/96 connection despite my paying for a 2 mbps connection. Some areas just don't have the population density to make ISPs care.
I admit I haven't checked this, but since the character lists are NOT shared between regions (Americas, Europe, Asia) would you not have an actual 3x10 characters available to you?
So that's four difficulties, 30 characters. I'm pretty sure after 120 complete runs through the game you do not want to start char #121, and if you do... consider seeking help. NO GAME is that entertaining.
It's not like you can just throw all that data into a Makerbot.
GameMaker, on the other hand...
How do you suggest making the machinery figure out what needs to be exact duplicates, and what can be defaults? For instance, I'd really hate for it to confuse half my brain matter with generic body fat just because I was asleep or something.
Backwards compatibility is a pretty good motivator, really.
We usually see that term when it comes to computers or consoles. Backwards compatibility on the expensive unit to still support the cheap peripherals (eg. games, joysticks). If there is no backwards compatibility offered, in most cases you still have the old machine able to sit next to the new one.
In this case, however, changing the form factor of the bulb (relatively cheap) may mean changing every lamp in your house, including that semi-heirloom chandelier in the hall. That is going to be very costly, and people hesitate because to the average person there's no real reason to suddenly replace 15-30 working lamps throughout the house, just because someone decided to make a new kind of bulb.
Somehow the microwave, two computers, washing machine and clothes dryer were all on the same circuit.
Eventually, during a day of heavy spring cleaning while downloading stuff and making lunch the circuit couldn't take it anymore and blew out completely. The electrician only had one question: How the hell did it survive for this long?
In hindsight I should have gotten it looked at when turning on the microwave while washing clothes would make the lights dim.
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2. eBay does something it doesn't have to -- lets you opt out.
Yeah, you just have to go down to the basement, the one where all the lights are out, and fill out a form found in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
"Cell phone bans have reduced cell phone use by drivers, but the perplexing thing is that they haven't reduced crashes,"
Now I'll admit I haven't read the article, nor do I have much clue about the ways the information has been gathered, but is it possible that the people who have stopped using their cell phones because of the bans are the good drivers who follow the rules of the road, and the bad drivers just shrug off 'yet another rule' that impedes their fun in a two ton speeding metal projectile?
You can filter it out when you get to see it every now and then.
Imagine having to watch one video after the other of people being maimed or killed, animals being abused, children being abused, most of them with a laugh track attached, and you have to do this for an average of forty hours a week for a year.
No, I doubt you would be able to just 'filter it out' in the long run, and if you ARE able to do that you're seriously not someone I want to know IRL. Humans are supposed to have emotions and empathy; a lack of both would be shown by being completely unaffected by such a job.
Which becomes a very big issue when you upload a photo you do not hold copyright for in the first place.
Still, might be a good time to get rid of MSFT stock, especially if Windows 9 is just as bad as 8.
Historically, it's like MS has been hitting one, missing one since Win98.
Win98 - decent for its time, if prone to BSODs.
WinME - Let's pretend this never existed.
WinXP - Massive improvement, especially after SP1 brought in an active-by-default firewall.
Vista - Called WinME2 for good reason. Admittedly sounds to have improved with later SPs, never used it myself.
Win7 - Again a good improvement, especially coming from XP.
Win8 - Sounds to be a total disaster.
Win9 - Completely unknown right now, of course, but in this list SHOULD be an improvement.
You realize the world isn't exactly static anymore, what with phased areas and actual progression through zones?
Doesn't mean it isn't a good idea or isn't interesting, either.
Close enough, really. According to several different sources internet access is had by around 84.5% of the population. Even if the remaining 15.5% are all law-abiding non-downloaders the 80% of the online population (~67.6% of the total population) are still quite a lot more than half the entire country.
That's ... kinda the point. That there needs to be a BETTER story TOGETHER with the good graphics.
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
So you're trying to grab the videos from a German domain?
Let me know how that works for you when it comes to any file with any kind of potentially copyrighted sound on it. HINT: This video is not available in your country because GEMA has not granted the respective rights.
human anatomy and reproduction.
So our first message to the rest of the universe is porn. Gotcha.
Sounds more to me like he's describing events in a dream, not actual events in his past. That's not to say his ex-father didn't at one point beat him up, the rest of the post suggests that may have happened, but he wasn't suffering daily physical as I understand it.
No, he's absolutely right.
D3 is nothing more than D2. It is, however, a lot less.
Since I'm in an argumentative mood today, I went to take a look at the link. Sadly there's no list of the torrent's contents, but I trust that - following your own convictions regarding copyright lengths - you've checked that nothing written/recorded since 1992 is present in it?
I am confused by your post and your signature.
Are you for or against taking a copy of whatever you want?
Please get off your high horse.
I live in Germany, about ten miles from a major city, and my DSL is incapable of going above a 384/96 connection despite my paying for a 2 mbps connection. Some areas just don't have the population density to make ISPs care.
Just call it rouge-like instead.
I admit I haven't checked this, but since the character lists are NOT shared between regions (Americas, Europe, Asia) would you not have an actual 3x10 characters available to you?
So that's four difficulties, 30 characters. I'm pretty sure after 120 complete runs through the game you do not want to start char #121, and if you do ... consider seeking help. NO GAME is that entertaining.
It's not like you can just throw all that data into a Makerbot.
GameMaker, on the other hand ...
How do you suggest making the machinery figure out what needs to be exact duplicates, and what can be defaults? For instance, I'd really hate for it to confuse half my brain matter with generic body fat just because I was asleep or something.
It may be more accurate to say they won this battle, but the war is not over yet.
Full circle, 360 degrees.
Either that, or he pulled out a video game console, but I think he meant that he turned his car in a circle.
Backwards compatibility is a pretty good motivator, really.
We usually see that term when it comes to computers or consoles. Backwards compatibility on the expensive unit to still support the cheap peripherals (eg. games, joysticks). If there is no backwards compatibility offered, in most cases you still have the old machine able to sit next to the new one.
In this case, however, changing the form factor of the bulb (relatively cheap) may mean changing every lamp in your house, including that semi-heirloom chandelier in the hall. That is going to be very costly, and people hesitate because to the average person there's no real reason to suddenly replace 15-30 working lamps throughout the house, just because someone decided to make a new kind of bulb.
Been there.
Somehow the microwave, two computers, washing machine and clothes dryer were all on the same circuit.
Eventually, during a day of heavy spring cleaning while downloading stuff and making lunch the circuit couldn't take it anymore and blew out completely. The electrician only had one question: How the hell did it survive for this long?
In hindsight I should have gotten it looked at when turning on the microwave while washing clothes would make the lights dim.
No more than jet lag does. A couple of days down the line and your body has re-adjusted to the sun's cues.