IIRC, the definitive answer is that the Latin plural of "virus" is "virus", but pronounced with a "long u"--"vi-roose". (Well, "vee-roose", actually, but that's a different matter entirely. If we're getting that deep into it, it should be "wee-roose" anyway.)
It's a minor inconvenience to the public if we lock you up for the rest of your life on the off chance that you might someday, accidentally or deliberately, kill someone, hurt someone, or hurt someone's feelings. If it saves just one person's life, limbs, or dignity, how can it not be worth it?
We would ignore it entirely were it not for the internet's propensity for drama where none exists. In fact the reason we haven't mentioned this before in weekly updates, is the simple fact that it would have distracted conversation away from more important aspects of the game, and given tinfoil hats some new gristle to chew on as they catalogued their toenail clippings.
I have to save that last line - to be used at some point in the future, that's too funny to let die...
Nice to see the true spirit of Bungie lives on. They did everything but call the whiners spazeroids.
It's a law in a very old-fashioned scientific sense--it expresses a proportion between two quantities (transistor density and time). This is the same sort of law as Newton's First Law, Boyle's Law, Coulomb's Law, etc. This use of the term is mostly obsolete, so I'm not surprised it's often understood.
Funnily enough we were just discussing memory on IRC - how if we were playing a piece of classical music on the piano from memory, one bad note and all of a sudden you couldn't continue from where you were without going all the way back to the start, almost like losing the next node in the linked list.
That's more to do with how you memorize piano pieces. Many people seem to do it the same way I do, kinesthetically--they mostly know the piece "in their fingers", rather than "in their head". My father, a BFA in piano, informs me that real musicians know a piece measure by measure, backwards and forwards, and can start at any offset they want.
Also whatever's south of Silverpine Forest (beyond the wall). Plus various spots that don't seem properly filled in--east of Burning Steppes, west of Un'goro, etc.
That's Hyjal Past, the Caverns of Time raid. He's talking about Mount Hyjal itself, accessed through the (locked) gateway in the demon section of Winterspring.
Hmmm, does this mean that the United States is oppressing the rest of the world by not allowing any person who wants to to move to the United States tomorrow?
Well, yes, frankly. Why do you think open borders proponents feel that way?
MS can either play by those rules or take their ball and go home.
Yes, they should, but then there are many other lessons from Atlas Shrugged that nobody has taken to heart yet either.
That's a standard meta-rule with most gamers anyway--if a deal is not part of the rules of the game, and it lasts more than one turn, it's not enforceable.
A couple of friends of mine in high school CS wrote a Tetris clone for class, but they had a bug where occasionally, blocks would spontaneously appear or disappear. They couldn't figure out how to fix it, so they claimed (in the docs, not to the teacher) that they had AI adjusting the difficulty to match the players' skills.
The guaranteed-to-be-overlooked key point: all the Mac vulnerabilities exist in services that are off by default. Yes, it's annoying that Apple isn't faster at patching them (and other known local holes), but it still beats the hell out of XP's default state on first boot.
I used to use a sauna on a regular basis that had a temperature of ~250F, at least up near the ceiling where the thermometer was. Since the locker room it was in was uninsulated and frequently had windows left open, I could get >200-degree temperature swings in the winter coming out of it.
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IIRC, the definitive answer is that the Latin plural of "virus" is "virus", but pronounced with a "long u"--"vi-roose". (Well, "vee-roose", actually, but that's a different matter entirely. If we're getting that deep into it, it should be "wee-roose" anyway.)
It's a minor inconvenience to the public if we lock you up for the rest of your life on the off chance that you might someday, accidentally or deliberately, kill someone, hurt someone, or hurt someone's feelings. If it saves just one person's life, limbs, or dignity, how can it not be worth it?
Nice to see the true spirit of Bungie lives on. They did everything but call the whiners spazeroids.
Otherkin--people who actually believe that they're werewolves, fairies, vampires, etc., rather than just enjoying pretending.
P.S. Not to be all thedailywtf, but my captcha is strangely appropriate: "clawed".
It's a law in a very old-fashioned scientific sense--it expresses a proportion between two quantities (transistor density and time). This is the same sort of law as Newton's First Law, Boyle's Law, Coulomb's Law, etc. This use of the term is mostly obsolete, so I'm not surprised it's often understood.
WTF? How does a homophobic, conspiracy-theoretic troll get to +3 Insightful?
Reminds me vaguely of Hogan's The Multiplex Man (Baen Free Library copy available).
4) by 01/01/2009 IPv7 becomes sentient and takes over the world via the Heaviside Layer. On the plus side, God incarnates as a cute Japanese girl.
Also whatever's south of Silverpine Forest (beyond the wall). Plus various spots that don't seem properly filled in--east of Burning Steppes, west of Un'goro, etc.
That's Hyjal Past, the Caverns of Time raid. He's talking about Mount Hyjal itself, accessed through the (locked) gateway in the demon section of Winterspring.
Yes, they should, but then there are many other lessons from Atlas Shrugged that nobody has taken to heart yet either.
So democracy justifies oppression?
The Godwinization writes itself....
AFAIK, one of the more important open questions is whether space and time are quantized the way mass/energy is.
Not sure of the relevance to the point, just thought it was ironic.
That's a standard meta-rule with most gamers anyway--if a deal is not part of the rules of the game, and it lasts more than one turn, it's not enforceable.
Does it come with a Rose Bride? If so, sign me up!
Dr. Singer called, he wants his consistent ethical system back.
Have you ever been to New York?
As opposed to, say, the Constitution?
A couple of friends of mine in high school CS wrote a Tetris clone for class, but they had a bug where occasionally, blocks would spontaneously appear or disappear. They couldn't figure out how to fix it, so they claimed (in the docs, not to the teacher) that they had AI adjusting the difficulty to match the players' skills.
The guaranteed-to-be-overlooked key point: all the Mac vulnerabilities exist in services that are off by default. Yes, it's annoying that Apple isn't faster at patching them (and other known local holes), but it still beats the hell out of XP's default state on first boot.
I used to use a sauna on a regular basis that had a temperature of ~250F, at least up near the ceiling where the thermometer was. Since the locker room it was in was uninsulated and frequently had windows left open, I could get >200-degree temperature swings in the winter coming out of it.